By Sophie Vorrath AGL Energy extends the reach of its virtual power plant with battery sales and installations for residential customers in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. The post AGL extends home battery and virtual power plant offering to eastern states appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew…
By [email protected] Southern Company intends to test the proposition that a U.S. utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That’s a key takeaway from Tuesday’s net-zero carbon plan fleshing out the multistate…
The Solis 255kW-EHV string inverter comes with the largest single power and largest number of MPPTs in the world. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
By Press Release New energy retailer and leader in VPP (virtual power plant) energy trading, Discover Energy is delighted to announce a Saver Plan with LG Chem and GoodWe to incentivise new installs of LG Chem LV batteries and GoodWe solar inverters. The post Discover Energy partners with LG Chem to promote the untapped potential…
By [email protected] Electric utilities all over the place are promising to eliminate or net out their carbon emissions — here’s GTM’s look at the top five. Such promises were unthinkable for utilities just a few years ago. But the trend took off when Xcel Energy figured out it could retire coal plants, build clean power…
By [email protected] Hitachi has confirmed it is walking away from a proposed new nuclear power plant in the U.K., raising serious questions about government plans to fund new nuclear projects. Speculation began earlier this week but has finally been confirmed by Hitachi on Wednesday. The Wylfa Newydd project in Wales was put on pause by…
The rapid transition in the upstream manufacturing solar sector to significantly larger p-type and n-type monocrystalline wafers, cells and modules may be hailed as a new era for the industry in higher module performance and a leap in reducing PV power plants LCOE (Levelized Cost of Electricity) in a rapidly changing downstream market that becomes…
By Joe Deely Perfect fit on this campus… would supplement the nearby wind resources as well as local solar.Note: some coal is still burnt at the on-campus Abbott power plant. Click headline for full article Read Full Article Here For more great articles: The Energy Collective – The world’s best thinkers on energy & climate
By SPW By Constantinos Peonides, Director, Alectris The recent heat storm in California, when everything that could go wrong did, caused prolonged and consecutive mandatory interruptions in electricity supply in the state. The heat wave caused the heavy use of air-conditioning, combined with the unavailability of some power plants to meet the demand (and a…
By [email protected] The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected the latest proposal from New York’s grid operator to allow renewable energy and batteries to compete against fossil fuels in its wholesale capacity market. That may give the state’s regulators and policymakers more reason to consider alternatives to federally regulated energy markets. In a Friday order,…
By [email protected] Ørsted, a developer synonymous with offshore wind, will have a novel experience in 2021: All of the new power plants it completes will be onshore, and most will involve solar panels. Since building the world’s first offshore wind project 30 years ago off the coast of Denmark, no other company has played a…
By National Wind Watch Nearly five months after Great River Energy announced it plans to close Coal Creek Station, it’s unknown who will make use of the transmission line that extends from the power plant to Minnesota. The high-voltage direct current line, which underwent a $130 million upgrade in recent years, is a major piece…
By Billy Ludt The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) officially opened its proceeding to consider additional modifications to the foundational policy for distributed solar + storage, Net Energy Metering (NEM). With a backdrop of COVID-19, blackouts caused by unreliable fossil fuel power plants and wildfires — widely believed to be a sign of the impacts…
By [email protected] Exelon is following through with a threat to close two of its Illinois nuclear power plants by next year unless it receives state support to boost their financial viability, a move that could undermine the state’s carbon-free electricity goals. But with a bribery scandal involving Exelon subsidiary Commonwealth Edison eroding its political clout…
By [email protected] Multifamily housing is a hard nut to crack for solar and battery developers. Sonnen and Wasatch Group say that bundling the value of solar and storage for tenants, property owners, outside investors, utilities and grid operators can make it work. Now, one year after launching their first project in Utah, they’re bringing the…