Energy Update
Outages during Christmas reflect poorly on utility forecasting and natural gas units. It’s past time for the states and their utilities to lead and not wait until the grid regulators Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and North American Electric Reliability Corporation conclude their joint investigation.
New York has approved siting permits for three solar projects totaling 309 MW.
The New York State Office of Renewable Energy awarded the siting permits to the 90 MW Home Solar Energy Center in Cortland County; the 119 MW Tracy Solar project in Jefferson County; and the 100 MW Riverside Solar project in Jefferson County.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Colorado dentist accused of setting a fire that damaged a transformer at a solar power array outside Las Vegas last week told investigators he wanted to send a message supporting clean energy and denied his intention was sabotage, police said in an arrest report obtained Wednesday.
Intersect Power has reached commercial operation on its Athos III solar project in Riverside County, California.
The Athos III solar project (also known as Blythe Mesa Solar II) generates 224 MWac/310 MWp of reliable solar energy, enough to power approximately 94,000 homes, and features 448 MWh of co-located battery storage.
Southern Current said it signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Dominion Energy South Carolina for its proposed $200 million, 107.8 MW Lone Star Solar project in Calhoun County, South Carolina, near Columbia.
If approved by state regulators, the project could enter service in 2024. Plans also call for a 198 MWh Battery Energy Storage System at the 572-acre facility.
Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group said it plans to expand its environmental finance commitment from $20 billion to $30 billion.
The bank first announced in August 2021 a commitment over five years to support environmental finance. Since then, PNC said it has completed $9 billion in environmental financing.
Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions, a nonregulated commercial brand of its investor-owned utility parent company Duke Energy, has placed into commercial operation a 207 MW wind farm in Iowa.
Qcells said it plans to invest more than $2.5 billion to build what it said would be a complete silicon-based solar supply chain in the United States.
The Korea-based company said it plans to break ground in Georgia during the first quarter on a facility to manufacture 3.3 GW of solar ingots, wafers, cells, and finished panels.
China-based solar cell and module manufacturer JA Solar has announced plans to establish a 2 GW production facility in Phoenix, Arizona, its first in the U.S.
The plant is expected to be operational by the end of next year. JA Solar said the $60 million investment will create 600 new jobs.
Shell Energy Australia is partnering up on – and will connect to the grid – a 500MW/1GWh BESS (Battery Energy Storage System), to be built on the site of the old Wallerawang Power Station near Lithgow, New South Wales (NSW).
Shell plans to build, own and operate this Wallerawang 9 battery, which will sit within the Wallerawang power station site, where two 500MW coal-fired generating units were decommissioned in 2014.
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