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By Natalie McIntire, Clean Grid Alliance and Ric O’Connell, Grid Lab

The holidays are over, and we survived another severe winter storm that affected millions of people over a large portion of the country during Christmas week. The storm brought blizzard conditions, high winds, and deep-freezing temperatures just as families gathered to celebrate the holidays.

Hydrogen Charbone Corporation announced it has signed the contract of purchase and sale with Northwoods Hydropower Inc. to acquire all general partner and limited partner interests in Tower Kleber Limited Partnership and the Black River Limited Partnership.

PacifiCorp has signed a 30-year power purchase agreement for the output of a wind farm under development in Wyoming.

Innergex is developing the 330 MW Boswell Springs Wind Project, which will connect to the PacifiCorp power grid at the Freezeout Substation in Carbon County, Wyoming via the Last Mile Transmission Project.

At 320 MW, the PacifiCorp PPA accounts for nearly all of the project’s expected output.

DSD Renewables has been tapped to install 13 MW of solar power on Home Depot stores in California, the companies announced.

Solar panels on the 25 stores are expected to generate a total of 17 million kWh of clean energy annually. With this latest collaboration, DSD Renewables will have installed solar power on 98 Home Depot stores.

BayWa r.e. and its subsidiaries have built four pilot projects in Europe to support agrivoltaics research.

A group of utilities in the Southeast plans to file a full application for at least part of the $8 billion in federal funding earmarked to develop regional clean hydrogen hubs.

British battery startup Britishvolt has collapsed into administration. Having hoped to build the UK’s first giga-scale battery factory, its collapse signals significant headwinds for the country’s e-mobility momentum.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Federal environmental and energy officials moved Wednesday to quell a growing controversy over whether work done by the offshore wind power industry is killing whales in the northeastern U.S., saying there is no evidence this is happening.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union pushed forward on Tuesday with a major clean tech industrial plan which not only should keep the continent in the vanguard of plotting a greener future but also guarantee its economic survival as it faces challenges from China and the United States.

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