Emissions-free battery recycling facility will use electricity rather than smelting
ACE Green Recycling announced plans to build a 400,000 square foot Texas plant to recycle both lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries.
Sunrise brief: SpaceX to add Trina solar and Tesla batteries to its Starbase facility
Also on the rise: Western and Southeastern utilities’ progress in advancing 194 GW of solar projects is a mystery. Michigan utility seeks land siting utility scale solar. Approximately 858 GWdc of solar and over 1 TWh of batteries are in development. Summit Ridge energizes Montgomery County’s first ground-mount community solar project. PG&E $11 million pilot programs to accelerate vehicle-to-everything technologies. 50 states of solar incentives: Rhode Island.
PG&E $11 million pilot programs to accelerate vehicle-to-everything technologies
Pacific Gas & Electric is developing three pilot programs to test how bi-directional EVs and chargers can send power to the grid.
Approximately 858 GWdc of solar and over 1 TWh of batteries are in development
Government research shows that solar-plus-storage is coming to dominate the nation’s power grid queues, representing the majority of new power plant applications.
Sunrise brief: DOC clarifies scope of anti-circumvention investigation, but what’s actually new?
Also on the rise: A look at Massachusetts solar incentives–a wellspring of technological and policy innovation. US researchers have investigated how grid-forming inverters could help to resolve network synchronization issues. Perovskites studied as potential material for producing hydrogen in a renewable way. Amazon signs with AES for 450 MW solar, 225 MW four-hour storage
Perovskites studied as potential material for producing hydrogen in a renewable way
NREL researchers look at perovskite materials for solar-fuel platform that supports DOE’s HydroGEN project.
How grid-forming inverters may enhance grid synchronization
US researchers have investigated how grid-forming inverters could help to resolve network synchronization issues. They have found that multi-loop devices could offer strong damping support in power systems with intermittent renewables.
Sunrise brief: Sunrun signs on to recycle solar panels with Solarcycle
Also on the rise: Utility TVA targets 10 GW of solar by 2035, currently owns 1 MW in operation. Maxeon unveils whole home energy management system SunPower One. Washington DC outpacing its own solar goals, for now. AES to supply Microsoft with 110 MW of solar, 220 MWh of storage. Self-healing perovskite solar PV cells can withstand fierce cosmic radiation. Porsche AG leads $400 million series C funding of US high-performance battery cell fabrication.
Self-healing perovskite solar PV cells can withstand fierce cosmic radiation
The development of a set of testing protocols for perovskite solar cells intended for use outside Earth’s atmosphere could lead to the devices being installed permanently, and even manufactured, on the moon.
Sunrun signs on to recycle solar panels with Solarcycle
Startup Solarcycle is using second-life panels from Sunrun to develop new ways to test, reuse and upcycle the retired solar panels in Sunrun’s project portfolio.
