Solar Grids News

US Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat who is key to passing President Joe Biden's US$ 1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act (BBB), claimed yesterday (Sunday) he will not support the plan, which he claimed would "run the risk of the reliability" of the nation's electric grid.

A recently finished solar microgrid system near Greensburg, Indiana, is expected to produce sufficient clean power to offset almost 4,000 tons of co2 over its life time.

The European Union's (EU) solar PV market has actually navigated a year besieged by supply chain disruptions and module prices hikes to post record levels of yearly deployment, according to research from SolarPower Europe (SPE).

18.4 MW project near Bari now providing energy to the nation's grid

China's National Energy Administration has actually kickstarted the 2nd batch of large-scale wind and also solar PV projects under the nation's multi-hundred-gigawatt desert renewables scheme.

Eirgrid and ESB Networks have actually launched the full listing of renewable resource projects to get grid connection supplies in Ireland via their enduring connection policy (ECP) process, with solar PV representing most of these.

Dutch solar installer Zonneplan has launched its initial 'smart grid' system called that will certainly use customers energy based on real-time rates.

For the very first phase of the study, Tesla owners in Australia, the United States, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Britain can apply. The programme could be expanded later on to include various other electric vehicle firms.

United States solar installer SunPower has released its ConnectedSolutions virtual power plant (VPP), allowing SunVault battery energy storage system (BESS) consumers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut to make "thousands of dollars a year" for allowing utility access to their saved power during peak need.

Tesla will currently be able to market electricity to retail consumers in Texas after a request was approved by the state's Public Utilities Commission (PUC).

When GreenHat Energy collapsed after blowing millions hypothesizing on power costs, it came to be level: Energy traders are basically betting, and ratepayers back every wager.

A recommended extension of the United States solar investment tax credit (ITC) might boost PV implementation by more than 40% over the following decade, analysis by Wood Mackenzie has actually found.

Italian grid operator Terna has actually acquired Italian solar O&M supplier LT in a EUR24 million (US$ 27.8 million) purchase.