Money Talks: California residents earn big bucks for easing grid strain
As California’s energy crisis rages, one company has been paying customers handsomely to to power down in times of peak strain on the grid.
Morning Brief: GAF Energy and Sunnova partner to offer roof-integrated PV and solar services
Also in the brief: Western Australia’s largest operating solar project, California’s recent grid woes
Adding long-duration storage to the gas fleet lets the grid absorb more solar and avoid brownouts
Bill Conlon, founder of Pintail Power, believes hybridizing the existing gas turbine fleet with long-duration molten salt storage can help balance today’s complex grid and absorb more now-curtailed solar.
LS Power completes the world’s largest active battery storage system
It’s a title that is becoming more contentious by the day, but for the time being, LS Power’s 250 MW Gateway project in San Diego, California is the biggest battery in the world.
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
Vistra approved to build a grid battery bigger than all utility-scale battery storage in the US combined
A permit to expand Vistra’s natural gas-fired Moss Landing generation station in Monterey County, California to 1,500 MW/6,000 MWh has been approved, setting the stage for the world to see gigawatt-scale battery energy storage for the first time ever.
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.
Morning Brief: AES expects Fluence to generate $500 million this year, Distributed Solar Development acquires Massachusetts community portfolio
Also in the brief: solar coming to coal country in Pennsylvania, Stellar Solar brings in NBA legend Bill Walton as an advocate for the company and more.
