New Jersey utilities must explain their votes on matters decided by grid operator PJM
When members of the nation’s largest grid operator PJM vote on matters affecting the speed of PJM’s interconnection studies and other issues, utilities in New Jersey and Maryland must now report on how they voted.
Dirty data can break a clean energy portfolio’s return on investment
While AI can help renewable companies get ahead, it will only take them so far without quality, clean data.
AI is transforming residential storage fleets. What does that look like in practice?
Predictive diagnostics and self-testing can help residential battery systems reduce downtime and cut service costs.
PV-integrated noise barriers for transportation corridors
U.S. startup Ko-Solar and Germany’s R. Kohlhauer, announced plans to offer turnkey PV-integrated noise barrier systems for transportation corridors, such as alongside highways, railways, and airport runways.
Planted Solar expanding terrain-conforming PV plant design platform
The U.S-startup with a land-use efficient, terrain-conforming PV plant design for solar developers said it will invest in expanding into Europe, and in further product development.
100,000 residential batteries in California tested as one distributed power plant
A statewide test showed how California’s residential batteries could perform routinely when the sun is going down and the grid is challenged.
An ambitious proposal to quickly add 23 GW of renewables in California
California could move quickly to enable 23 GW of renewables near existing thermal generators, in time for the projects to qualify for tax credits before they expire, says a think tank policy director.
Transmission build last year was at one-fifth the pace needed, clean energy group finds
Reaching a low-cost high-renewables grid will require much more high-capacity transmission, but the pace of transmission development is not keeping up.
Iron-sodium battery to provide community backup for high fire risk zone in California
The Department of Energy granted $4.1 million to Inlyte Energy to deploy grid-scale batteries in a microgrid in northern California.
Design solar for storage now, or retrofit at a premium later
New analysis of retrofitting solar power plants with energy storage, accounting for the industry’s rapidly falling prices, suggests that prepping your solar projects today has a strong chance of being in your financial interest.
