Morning Brief: Tuesday will be a challenging day for the California grid – here’s a CAISO load forecast
Also in the brief: CATL aims for EV batteries free of cobalt or nickel, rolling blackouts in California stump power experts, record U.S. wind installations
California’s fossil fuel plants failed us, not solar
In order to prevent more of California’s grid emergencies, what’s needed is more solar-charged batteries, not more peaker plants
Morning Brief: VP nominee Kamala Harris’ climate-change agenda, One grid battery to rule them all
Also in the brief: Capacity deferral is the primary source of storage value, Trump administration ‘to lead the world’ in energy storage
Morning brief: FERC greenlights MISO storage-as-transmission plan, Duke moves towards solar, storage in wake of $1.6B pipeline loss
Also in the brief: On climate, Kamala Harris has a record and profile for action, Vermont EPC Peck acquires California solar company Sunworks
DC citizen wins increase in rooftop solar limit to 200% of past usage
States like California whose laws say residential rooftop solar must be “intended primarily” for self-consumption could join Washington, D.C. in increasing their limit, says D.C. resident David Roodman. Generation in excess of consumption will be compensated at the wholesale rate in Washington.
Racial equity in clean energy should be a key differentiator for the industry
When only 8% of the solar workforce is African American, framing the problem in terms of access issues for low-income communities sidesteps the inextricable link between race and energy, advocates say.
The U.S. can be powered 100% by renewable energy. How do we get there?
Long story short, it’s possible for the U.S. to run 100% on renewable energy. How we get there is the long story.
FERC advises Congress how transmission may be added along transportation corridors
If Congress wants to increase transmission of renewable power from high-resource areas to high-population areas, a report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission provides a roadmap. Co-locating transmission with highways is the greatest challenge.
Morning Brief: Mississippi approves two 78.5-MW PV projects, U of I solar construction starts
Also in the brief: Peabody to write down value of largest U.S. coal mine by $1.42 billion, First Solar joins RE100
SolarAPP residential solar permitting app to launch this fall
The web-based app is designed to automate local government processing of solar permit applications, and has earned praise from local government officials in California who have tested it.
