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The billion-dollar battery boom
Corporations are buying up batteries and investing in their companies like it’s going out of style.
Jul 26, 2019 // Storage, storage, PV project, United Kingdom, Mercom Capital Group, Battery Storage, Europe
Keystone XL developer becomes PPA offtaker for Alberta PV project
Perimeter Solar has sold 74.25MW of power from its proposed 130MW solar farm in Alberta, Canada to energy company TC Energy, in a deal billed as Canada’s “largest” private power purchase agreement (PPA) to date.
Oct 1, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Grids, Canada, PPA, Donald Trump, North America, calgary, alberta, greengate, perimeter, tc energy, keystone xl
United States DOE releases i2X campaign to solve the country's grid connection problem
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has actually launched an effort to relieve the US' enormous affiliation lines up, lower wait times as well as lower grid connection prices as it makes every effort to unlock the huge amount of bulk power currently rested inactive in the United States.
Jun 8, 2022 // Storage, Grids, Policy, USA, pv power plants, interconnection, North America, doe, Jennifer Granholm, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, i2X
World Bank Approves $311 Million for Renewable Energy in West Africa
The $311 million funds will certainly be funded through International Development Association (IDA). The RESPITE project will support the setup of solar as well as battery storage space capacity, near-term O&M contracts for the provision of solar supply, expansion of hydropower generation capacity, grid connection infrastructure and grid modernization and also upgrades.
Dec 23, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, world bank, Africa, chad, Togo, Boutheina Gue, IDA, International Development Association, Liberia, RESPITE, Rhonda Jordan-Antoine, Sierra Leone, WAPP, West Africa Power Pool, West Africa solar power
Vistra Introduces Expansion Of California Storage Facility To 3000 MWh
The expansion will certainly make this the world's biggest battery storage facility Vistra today announced that it prepares to additional expand its Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in Moss Landing, California.
Jan 25, 2022 // Storage, California, USA, North America, Curt Morgan, Vistra Corp
Agilitas Energy Raises $350 Million to Expand Renewables & Storage Platform
The investment will certainly speed up Agilitas' growth, building and construction and procedure of more than 500 MW of energy storage as well as solar PV projects. Moving forward, within the very first 90 days, the joint venture looks to get eight projects totaling 45 MW.
Jun 10, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, EPC, ENERGY STORAGE, CarVal Investors, pv projects, Agilitas Energy, Barrett Bilotta, Jerry Keefe, Intelligent Power Dispatch
SEIA lays out its vision for US interconnection reform, suggests sweeping adjustments at numerous levels
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has actually released a whitepaper detailing the reforms it thinks are needed to the US interconnection system, in which it outlines a collection of proposals for both regional transmission organisations (RTO) as well as the US-wide Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
Jun 16, 2022 // Plants, Storage, Grids, USA, SEIA, FERC, pv power plants, interconnection, North America, doe, grid connection, connection queues, RTOs, interconnection reform, whitepaper
California presents brand-new web metering program
The state's new net metering is a very anticipated, high-stakes case. It will successfully change the policies for the net metering tariff in California, which is arguably one of the most important policy mechanism for customer-sited solar of the last decade.
Sep 18, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, Policy, USA, CPUC, North America, NEM tariff
Altus Power, With Assistance From Blackstone, Becomes A Top 5 UNITED STATE Solar Supplier
On Wednesday, Altus Power America, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based clean electrification business that offers industrial, community, energy as well as domestic clients, revealed that it has obtained 100MW of distributed solar properties in the U.S. states of California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, new York and Vermont.
Dec 24, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, David Ige, Altus Power, Rob Camacho, Gregg Felton
Is 'Oil Miracle' Middle East Now Seeking to Come To Be a Hydrogen Resources?
In the wake of hydrogen, specifically environment-friendly hydrogen (generated via electrolysis using renewable energy), being posited as an excellent choice to nonrenewable fuel sources for generating power, the oil giant Middle East has actually set out to become a major producer of the brand-new tidy fuel-- green H2.
Jun 1, 2021 // Solar to Fuel, Saudi Arabia, Asia, middle east, Oman, green hydrogen, carbon neutrality
Ameren targets 5.4 GW renewables ability by 2040 in web no aspiration
United States utility Ameren will certainly spend nearly US$ 8 billion to develop renewable resource over the next 20 years as it targets net-zero carbon exhausts by 2050 throughout all procedures in Missouri and Illinois.
Sep 29, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, SEPA, North America, ameren, irp, utility, Marty Lyons, Warner Baxter, Ashok Gupta
DOE announces US$ 8.25 bn in loans to support grid transmission improvements
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has earmarked US$ 8.25 billion in loans to support grid transmission enhancements as more renewables are contributed to the nation's power mix.
Apr 29, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, doe, department of energy, biden, clean energy transition, Jennifer Granholm, american jobs plan, loan programs office, texas winter storm, western area power administration
International storage market 'established for boom'
BNEF forecasts 358GW/1028GWh by the end of 2030 driven by the United States and China
Nov 15, 2021 // Storage, USA, BNEF, China, Europe, Asia, North America, GLOBAL
Space-starved Singapore constructs floating solar farms in climate battle
Countless panels glinting in the sunlight stretch into the sea off Singapore, part of the land-scarce city-state's press to build floating solar farms to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Mar 9, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, floating PV, Asia, Singapore, Jen Tan, Shawn Tan, Subhod Mhaisalkar
US electricity retailers are ditching fossil fuels
Three different retail electricity providers in the United States have announced new programs to provide customers the option to buy 100% renewably sourced electricity, with one of the three even coming at no additional cost.
Aug 23, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Portland General Electric, Appalachian Power, Gexa Energy out of Houston, Appalachian Power’s Wind Water & Sunlight