Energy Update
By Sarah Shemkus, Energy News Network
Maine is finalizing rules for a program that will soon let commercial property owners pay for clean energy upgrades through their property tax bills.
The U.S. hydropower industry faces an oncoming wave of retirements, and a new, diverse workforce is critical to the industry’s ability to sustain operations and grow to support a carbon-free power grid by 2035 and a net-zero-emissions economy by 2050, according to a new report.
In addition, more hydropower-focused educational and training opportunities are needed to address recruitment and hiring challenges.
Bosch said it will invest more than $260 million to expand production of electrification products at its Charleston, South Carolina, site.
Electric motor production at the site began in October at a 200,000-square-foot building on the Bosch Charleston campus. The new assembly area produces rotors and stators, as well as final electric motor assembly.
Moving rows of solar panels farther apart can boost efficiency and improve economics in some cases by allowing greater airflow to disperse heat, according to new analysis from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Researchers looked beyond current operating assumptions that typically account only for the amount of sunlight, wind speed, and ambient temperature. They included the accompanying heat that also can affect power output.
Ørsted and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners agreed to develop around 5.2 GW of offshore wind in Denmark across four projects.
The projects are Vikinge Banke (1.1 GW) and Jyske Banke Nord (1.1 GW) in the North Sea, and Bornholm Bassin Syd (1.5 GW) and Bornholm Basin Øst (1.5 GW) in the Baltic Sea.
The projects would more than double Denmark’s current installed offshore wind capacity.
Sunnova Energy said that 59 of its 30,000 rooftop solar arrays required repair in the two weeks following Hurricane Fiona, which struck Puerto Rico in early September, causing widespread outages as the island’s electric power grid failed.
Portland General Electric and NextEra Energy Resources, a unit of NextEra Energy, agreed to build a 311 MW wind energy facility, which will be part of the larger Clearwater Wind development in eastern Montana.
PGE will own 208 MW of the 311 MW being acquired in these agreements, with an investment of around $415 million. Units of NextEra Energy Resources will own the remaining 103 MW and sell their portion of the output to PGE under a 30-year purchased power agreement (PPA).
A company aims to enter the onsite renewable energy market with a wind energy technology that it claims can generate up to 50% more energy but at the same cost as rooftop solar PV.
Aeromine Technologies said its bladeless wind energy product is being tested by BASF Corp. at a Michigan manufacturing plant.
Axium Infrastructure and Canadian Solar Inc.’s Recurrent Energy and CSI Energy Storage units said that the 350 MW / 1400 MWh Crimson Storage, a $550 million energy storage project in California, is in service.
Renewables companies across the UK are welcoming newly laid out government commitments to removing blocks to onshore wind development in England.
Renewables UK revealed that the government will “bring onshore wind planning policy in line with other infrastructure to allow it to be deployed more easily”.
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