Energy Update
More than 1,000 shipments of solar energy components worth hundreds of millions of dollars have been detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents since June, according to federal customs officials and industry sources based on reporting from the Reuters news agency.
Norway-based FREYR Battery said it acquired a site in Coweta County, Georgia, for its planned $1.7 billion Giga America battery plant. The company said it plans to launch detailed project engineering in the coming months.
The first phase is planned to be a cell production module with around 34 GWh of capacity, based on the next-generation of 24M’s U.S.-based SemiSolid production platform.
Valmont Industries said it will sell its offshore wind business to Euro Steel, a Denmark-based supplier of steel products to the European wind market.
The sale comes as Nebraska-based Valmont focuses on its solar energy business, which it said offers the highest potential for “global growth,m scalability and value creation.”
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is partnering with utilities on four hydrogen demonstration projects at U.S. nuclear power plants.
Hydrogen would be produced at the nuclear plants through high- or low-temperature electrolysis, a process of splitting water into pure hydrogen and oxygen. High-temperature electrolyzers use both heat and electricity to split water and are more efficient.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A research team led by Oregon State University is planning to develop a new rechargeable battery that could reduce the need for environmentally destructive mining of rare minerals like nickel and lithium and accelerate the clean energy transition.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators on Nov. 10 proposed changes to the state’s residential solar market designed to encourage more at-home battery systems that can help the electrical grid rely less on fossil fuels in the evenings, especially during heat waves.
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The California Public Utilities Commission released a draft decision that would revise the state’s net energy metering tariff in a bid to improve price signals by better aligning them with the electric grid’s conditions, both day and night.
By Samantha Donalds, Clean Energy States Alliance
The State of Washington’s 2021 State Energy Strategy (SES) provides a roadmap for Washington to meet its critical and ambitious energy and climate goals: transitioning to 100% clean electricity by 2045 and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with climate science.
A long-time oil drilling firm in the Appalachian basin is teaming up with a renewable energy developer to build and operate what they said could be more than 3 GW of renewable energy assets across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
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