Energy Update
By Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Spotlight, Energy News Network
Wind has surpassed hydroelectric power as the largest generator of electricity in South Dakota.
Last year, over 52% of the electricity generated in the state came from wind turbines.
A 28 MW solar project is being developed on farm property owned by the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.
The zoo has been working to develop solar on their property for more than a decade, an executive said.
California's grid survived a record-setting September heatwave due to several factors, including increased capacity, improved communication between agencies, and significant conservation by commercial and residential customers.
Distribution utilities know that flexibility is key for a grid made up of thousands of distributed energy resources (DER) and renewable energy. In California, a state that tends to lead in terms of the energy transition, a new project will test the efficacy of two all-electric microgrids that span two communities and 192 homes for bringing the type of flexibility that the grid of the future will need.
Bloom Energy inaugurated a new high-volume commercial electrolyzer line at the company's facility in New Jersey, increasing their overall production capacity to 2 GW.
Texas Power Podcast host Doug Lewin is joined this week by Dr. Joshua Rhodes, who is a research scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, a non-resident fellow at Columbia University, and a founding partner and the CTO of IdeaSmiths LLC, to discuss the Texas electricity market redesign and the results of a highly-anticipated report on the cost and effectiveness of three proposals before regulators.
Sunrun has been selected to build Puerto Rico's first virtual power plant by the island's electric utility provider.
Sunrun said it will aggregate the solar and battery storage systems of more than 7,000 customers to form the 17 MW VPP. The company is aiming to dispatch the VPP in 2024.
Parent company FirstEnergy now has the option to take a 20% stake in new Shell-owned offshore wind transmission development company.
During a period that saw the U.S. pass its first policy to meaningfully address climate change, the clean energy industry recorded its slowest quarter in three years.
Residential solar markets are growing both broader and deeper as the income level of adopters falls and as more states become attractive for installers.
The trends were included in the latest edition of the annual report, Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends, from the Energy Department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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