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Applications & Installations
Growing from three up to twenty gigawatts of solar power – Massachusetts seeks guidance A request for proposals has been released to develop a plan guiding the deployment of 10-20GW of solar power by 2050 as the state seeks to fully decarbonize itself.
John Fitzgerald Weaver
Feb 28, 2022
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Markets & Policy
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.
John Fitzgerald Weaver
Feb 25, 2022
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Markets & Policy
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.
John Fitzgerald Weaver
Feb 22, 2022
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Applications & Installations
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.
John Fitzgerald Weaver
Feb 17, 2022
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Applications & Installations
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.
John Fitzgerald Weaver
Feb 16, 2022
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Applications & Installations
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.
John Fitzgerald Weaver
Feb 16, 2022
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Markets & Policy
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.
John Fitzgerald Weaver
Feb 14, 2022
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Markets & Policy
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.
John Fitzgerald Weaver
Feb 08, 2022
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Research & Development
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
John Fitzgerald Weaver
Feb 07, 2022
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