Ryan Kennedy
Alliant Energy completes 200 MW solar project in Wisconsin
The project is part of a multi-phase buildout of 12 solar projects totaling over 1 GW.
Solar wafer prices continue to soften, complex international trade situation sparks concerns
In a weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry.
Gulf heat dome and polar set stream shape solar outcomes in May
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that a strong polar jet stream and a record-breaking heat dome in May resulted in a stark contrast in irradiance patterns across North America. The western and central USA, along with Mexico, experienced higher than normal irradiance, while the Gulf and East Coast regions faced lower irradiance.
Producing hydrogen fuel from solar power and agricultural waste
Using 600% less voltage to produce hydrogen, a research team at the University of Illinois Chicago has developed a new method for splitting water.
REC introduces 640 W commercial solar panel
The new product contains heterojunction cell technology (HJT) with up to 22.5% efficiency.
DOE funding available for distributed energy resource operations software
The Department of Energy announced $31 million in funding for research to improve distribution level grid operations of solar, wind, energy storage, and other inverter-based resources.
Texas is the proving ground for a new way of electric grid operation
Texas is uniquely suited to adopt virtual power plant technology due to its competitive, deregulated market. Its success highlights the “perverse incentive” of vertically integrated utilities in other states to make capital expenditures without discretion to raise profits.
Battery energy storage tariffs tripled; domestic content rules updated
Breaking down U.S. market impacts on energy storage from recent policy changes with insights from Clean Energy Associates.
J.P. Morgan commits $680 million tax equity financing for solar and storage
The funds support project developer Ørsted’s portfolio in Texas and Arizona.
When is the next Aurora due and what’s the impact on solar generation?
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, explains that the solar cycle does tend to increase the earth’s average annual extra-terrestrial irradiance, but only by a very small amount. It also explains that, while the annual cycle of extra-terrestrial irradiance causes a steady, predictable and significant 3.5% change through the seasonal cycle, the peak of the 11-year cycle of solar activity causes a smaller, more sporadic and unpredictable set of fluctuations.
