Energy Update
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.
A newly-formed coalition of some of the largest utilities in the U.S. will pursue a “six-state hydrogen hub” in the Southeast and plans to apply for funding from an $8 billion U.S. Department of Energy program.
The coalition includes Dominion Energy, Duke Energy, Louisville Gas & Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company (LG&E and KU), Southern Company, and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), along with Battelle and others, according to an announcement Nov. 1.
A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission complaint by a transmission subsidiary of Invenergy shows barriers for merchant transmission developers.
Arizona-based municipal utility Salt River Project (SRP) signed contracts with Plus Power to bring online two battery storage systems with a total combined output of 340 MW by early summer 2024.
The first project, called Sierra Estrella, will be a 250 MW/1 GWh storage system located in Avondale. The second, Superstition, will be a 90 MW/360 MWh system located in Gilbert. Both would be owned and operated by a subsidiary of Plus Power.
Reports have been circulating for weeks that Russian troops have either already targeted and bombed hydropower plants in Ukraine or that these plants are future targets.
The developer of an offshore wind farm in Massachusetts has asked regulators to rework a power purchase agreement signed in April, saying that the project is "no longer viable" under the current terms.
Undersea transmission cable laying work is underway for the first phase of Vineyard Wind, an array of 62 wind turbines in Long Island Sound some 13 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. The project will use General Electric Haliade-X turbines, each rated at 13 MW.
Contributed by Eric Fischgrund, founder of FischTank PR
By Samantha Donalds, Clean Energy States Alliance
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