Sunrise brief: Designing for 100% renewables with real-time retail pricing could yield benefits of 9% or more 

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Catalyzing solar in the US: a manufacturer’s perspective  The Inflation Reduction Act, if signed into law, will provide important incentives that we expect will catalyze significant investment in US solar manufacturing, facilitate the creation of a stable domestic solar supply chain, and allow the US to aggressively pursue the decarbonization of its economy with less reliance on imported solar products.

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Generac AC Coupling for PWRcell solar plus battery storage systems  With a new firmware update, Generac PWRcell battery storage products can accept up to 7.6 kW of AC power generated by third-party PV inverters.

Designing for 100% renewables with real-time retail pricing could yield benefits of 9% or more  Including real-time pricing of retail electricity in the design of a high-renewables system would “markedly” lower the system’s cost, researchers found, in an analysis for the island of Oahu, Hawaii. For continent-scale systems as well, they said the resulting demand-side flexibility is likely substantial.

 

 

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