By John Engel Follow @EngelsAngle A microgrid has been placed into service in the town of Hot Springs, North Carolina that will be able to power the entire town during an outage. The Hot Springs microgrid consists of a 2 MW (AC) solar facility and a 4.4 MW/4.4 MWh lithium-based battery storage facility. While the…
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By Associated Press Editors PORTLAND, Mane (AP) — Maine utility regulators on Tuesday gave final approval to a wind power project that would provide enough electricity for at least 450,000 New England homes along with construction of a new transmission corridor in northern Maine to get the electricity to the regional power grid. The unanimous…
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By Renewable Energy World Electric vehicle charging network ChargePoint is teaming up with energy storage solutions provider Stem to pair EV charging with battery storage along highway corridors. The companies said they hope to lower operating costs, improve resiliency, and help achieve sustainability goals by leveraging EV charging and energy storage with AI-drive energy management…
By John Engel Follow @EngelsAngle Prices for solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) continued their push higher to end 2022, a sign that an already tight North American offtake market was still hampered by supply chain constraints and trade disputes. At the same time, however, wind PPA prices fell in the fourth quarter for the first…
By Elizabeth Ingram Percepto, an autonomous inspection and monitoring solution provider, said that Transport Canada has approved Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to operate a Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone without a visual observer on site. Approval is thought to be a first in Canada and will take place at McConnell Lake Control Dam….
German energy regulator Bundesnetzagentur has launched an auction for four new offshore wind sites in the North Sea and the Baltic with a combined capacity of 7GW. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Wind Power News & Analysis RSS Feed
The European Commission is expected to sign off on a communication tomorrow (1 February) that will set out the EU response to President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which is channelling billions of dollars in subsidies and tax breaks to clean industry. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Wind Power News & Analysis…
The German cabinet has approved proposals from energy minister Robert Habeck to speed up permitting for wind farms, solar parks, heat pumps and grid infrastructure, and will now pass these on to the Bundestag. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Wind Power News & Analysis RSS Feed
By Renewable Energy World Amazon continued its renewable energy buying spree in 2022, cementing the company yet again as the global leader in clean energy procurement. The company said its renewable energy portfolio grew by 8.3 GW in 2022 through 133 new projects in 11 countries. The portfolio now totals more than 20 GW— enough…
By Renewable Energy World By Elizabeth Ouzts, Energy News Network Duke Energy spends twice as much money fueling and upkeeping its six North Carolina coal plants — costs passed on to ratepayers — than if it replaced them with brand new solar farms, a report issued today shows. The analysis by the clean energy policy…
By Renewable Energy World While both wind and solar delivered Europe through the energy crunch by generating more than a fifth of EU electricity in 2022, it was solar power that made the biggest impact, setting electricity generation records and saving billions in imported gas costs. This was one of the key findings in the…
By John Engel Follow @EngelsAngle A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress is hoping to use a legislative tool to roll back an executive order that paused for two years any new tariffs on solar modules imported from Southeast Asia. The group aims to use the Congressional Review Act to repeal the order, which was…
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