John Fitzgerald Weaver
On the floor at the RE+ Northeast Solar & Storage
Drones, honey, lidar, rock drills, and more were on the floor as northeast US focused vendors showed off their products in Boston.
Missing: Five to ten gigawatts of utility scale solar in 2022
ROTH Capital Partners sees a possibility of 5-10GW of utility-scale solar power facility developers finding it challenging to procure – cost effective or otherwise – solar panels for their projects, with some pushing off construction until Tier 1 products are available for purchase.
LA could soon be home to the nation’s largest green hydrogen infrastructure system
Southern California Gas Company is submitting an application to build a 10 to 20GW electrolyzer and 25 to 35GW of new and curtailed wind and solar, along with 2GW of energy storage, to deliver green hydrogen to the Los Angeles Basin.
The world’s largest lithium ion battery is down, again
The Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility Phase II set off fire alarms that activated a fault water suppression system, which – again – set off a cascading set of events that resulted in roughly ten battery packs melting down.
They love me, they love me not – a tale of solar power romance
A Texas author opposing renewable energy has published a list of 17 rejected solar power projects across the United States since 2017.
Solar power pricing is up, and so is demand
Bloomberg finds that corporations procured a record 31GW of renewable energy in 2021, while LevelTen Energy revealed that the growth occurred despite more than a year of price increases.
OhmConnect now selling electricity in Texas, not just saving it
The California-founded company has opened a new business arm in Texas that is a registered retail electricity provider, coupled with its standard flexible demand response services.
Grazing sheep increase carbon sequestration up to 80%, while also benefiting fixation of soil nutrients under solar panels
Researchers from Temple University have found that managed sheep grazing on an acre of recovering agricultural soil with native plants installed may sequester one ton of carbon per year, which may accumulate for 12 to 15 years before reaching saturation
A battery is only as good as its control system
A possible failed bearing and a software programming error in a heat suppression system caused a cascading incident that damaged 7% of Vistra Corp.’s Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility.
Solar indulgences for fossil sins in Pennsylvania
Legislation has been submitted in Pennsylvania that would force the State to sell the renewable energy certificates it purchased from solar projects to third parties, and use the cash to pay for the capping of abandoned oil and gas wells in the state.
