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DOE Introduces $24.5 Million for Production Flow Batteries and Resilient Electric Grids
The USA Department of Energy (DOE) has actually introduced USD 24.5 million to sustain production of resilient, modern-day electricity framework, flow battery systems, and to attend to the climate emergency.
Mar 22, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Grids, USA, North America, US DOE, Flow battery system, resilient electricity, Diana DeGette
EDP Renewables to develop 200MWac PV project in Indiana for energy NIPSCO
A subsidiary of EDP Renewables has actually signed a build-transfer arrangement with Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) for the development of a 200MWac solar park in the US state of Indiana.
Mar 22, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, EDP, EDP Renewables, North America, Indiana, nipsco, utility
Sunlight Financial protects 2B in solar funding through increased collaboration with Tech CU
Sunlight Financial has actually revealed that Tech CU, a Silicon Valley-based lending institution, has dedicated to money an additional virtually $2.5 billion in property solar and storage space systems sold and also installed by Sunlight partners over the following three years, broadening upon a long-lasting collaboration in between Sunlight and Tech CU that started in 2015.
Mar 22, 2021 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, New York, North America, Tech CU, Matt Potere, Sunlight Financial, Todd Harris
Research discovers plants would certainly expand well in solar cell greenhouses
A recent research reveals that lettuce can be grown in greenhouses that strain wavelengths of light used to generate solar power, demonstrating the usefulness of using transparent photovoltaic panels in greenhouses to produce electrical power.
Mar 22, 2021 // Technology, USA, solar cell, North America, Brendan O'Connor, North Carolina State University, Harald Ade, Heike Sederoff
FERC signals mention support for solar projects in PURPA, MOPR rulings
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has revealed key choices this week giving quality as well as to solar developers within the United States, while signalling state support further down the line.
Mar 22, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, USA, FERC, North America, PJM Interconnection, auctions and tenders, floor price, MINIMUM offer price rule, MOPR, Gizelle Wray, Jessica Bayles
US solar duo turn on 200MW Georgia PV portfolio
3 projects in the state will provide power for 32 Georgia Electric Membership Corporations
Mar 18, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, utility-scale projects, Geoff Duncan
CPV strategies 175-MW solar farm on previous coal mine in Maryland
Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) will certainly be seeking clearance to build a 175-MW solar farm on the website of a coal mine in Maryland that closed recently.
Mar 17, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, cpv, Maryland, solar farm, Competitive Power Ventures
Wärtsilä to supply energy storage space for two projects in Texas, United States
Wärtsilä has safeguarded an order from Able Grid Energy Solutions to provide as well as preserve energy storage space systems for 2 projects in southerly Texas, US.
Mar 17, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Storage, USA, North America, Wärtsilä, Risto Paldanius, Sharon Greenberg, Able Grid Energy Solutions
New perovskite LED gives off a spin-polarized radiance
The addition of an unique brand-new perovskite layer has actually allowed researchers to create a "spin-polarized LED" without requiring a magnetic field or extremely reduced temperatures, potentially clearing the path to a boating of novel innovations.
Mar 17, 2021 // Technology, USA, NREL, Washington, perovskite, North America, Joseph Luther, Matthew Beard
Iowa's 'biggest' solar project reaches industrial operation
Idaho-based renewable resource firm Clenera has actually completed the development of what it says is Iowa's largest PV plant, the 127.5 MWdc Wapello Solar project.
Mar 17, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, Solar Project, Clenera, Jason Ellsworth
Solar Sector Sets Records in 2020, On Course to Quadruple by 2030
The UNITED STATE solar market expanded 43% and also mounted a record 19.2 gigawatts (GWdc) of capacity in 2020, according to the UNITED STATE Solar Market Understanding 2020 Year-in-Review report, released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and also Wood Mackenzie.
Mar 16, 2021 // Market Research, USA, SEIA, Wood Mackenzie, North America, Abigail Ross Hopper, Michelle Davis
Duke Energy selects sites for 150MW of solar
75MW Fort Green project to be improved a previous mine and 75MW Bay Trail is sited at a future mine area
Mar 16, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, Duke Energy Florida, Melissa Seixas
Scenic Hill Solar will build 4.8-MW tracker solar project to power Arkansas bank
Bank OZK got approval from the Arkansas Public Service Commission (APSC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to build a solar energy plant that is anticipated to have a producing capability of 4.8-MWdc.
Mar 16, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Tim Hicks, Solar Project, tracker solar project
UNITED STATE Battery updates AGM deep-cycle line of batteries
U.S. Battery Production has actually launched its new and enhanced line of AGM Deep-Cycle batteries especially created to give raised deep-cycling efficiency.
Mar 16, 2021 // Storage, USA, North America, AGM Deep-Cycle batteries, Zachary Cox, Don Wallace
HOMER Energy by UL software application currently efficient in modeling crossbreed utility-scale systems
HOMER Energy by UL, global leader in the advancement of standard-setting energy modeling software, announced its most recent service-- HOMER Front + UL Analysis. The new capability assists energy programmers design and enhance the intricacies of front-of-the-meter utility-scale renewable crossbreed power systems that include wind, solar as well as battery energy storage space systems (BESS).
Mar 16, 2021 // Software, USA, North America, HOMER Energy, Peter Lilienthal, UL