Energy Jobs: JB Straubel’s battery recycling startup, Powerhouse, Total, Broad Reach Power, Span, Facebook, Clean Energy for Biden
Executive, career and boardroom moves in solar, storage, cleantech, utilities and energy VC — plus some select job openings.
Massive 1.1-GW Misae solar complex in Texas moves to Phase II
The 1.1-GWdc Misae comes equipped with Texas brio in the person of Dr. Miguel Alejandro Oneto, a radiologist by training and solar developer by calling. He’s developing the massive project in the Texas panhandle along with LAE American Energy.
Morning Brief: Cheap solar-powered hydrogen, methane leaks at LA gas plant
Also in the brief: EEI used anti-clean energy campaigns as role models in political boot camp for utility execs.
EnerVenue looks to shake up the battery market with metal hydrogen technology
The company launched today with $12 million in seed funding, boasting advantages over lithium-ion in performance, price, operability in extreme weather and decades of use in the aerospace industry.
Long-duration energy storage makes progress but regulation lags technology
Technologies, players and regulatory gaps in the U.S. long-duration storage market.
Morning Brief: SunPower and Maxeon are now independent companies, a battery can sell three types of products
Also in the brief: More financing news on Longroad’s 331-MW Prospero 2 solar project in Andrews County, Texas, Duke Energy storage projects abound, and solar on military housing.
Morning Brief: Longroad’s $320 million Texas PV project, Montana utility cannot discriminate against solar
Also in the brief: The U.S. Energy Storage Association aims to have 100 GW of new energy storage deployed in the U.S. by the end of this decade, also — thousands allowed to bypass environmental rules in pandemic.
MiaSole, dormant thin-film solar company, received more than $5 million in PPP loans
Why is an essentially bankrupt Chinese solar company that had already furloughed most of its staff receiving $5 to $10 million from the U.S. treasury?
Software could have prevented California’s rolling blackouts
Load flexibility software does what utilities and grid operators have been begging and pleading for homeowners to do manually.
The Texas battery boom is helping drive the ‘summer of storage’ in the US
With two projects clocking in at 100 MW each, the Texas storage market is demonstrating that California isn’t the only state that can do big batteries.
