Energy Update
Homeowners across the world have been investing in rooftop solar PV for at least two decades with much of that investment taking place over the past five years. As battery pricing has dropped, many of those same solar enthusiasts have added energy storage to their arrays so they can use more of the solar energy they generate themselves instead of sending their surplus back to the grid.
Amy Heart, VP of public policy at Sunrun, joined the Texas Power Podcast to discuss lessons learned from Winter Storm Uri, Texas’ interest in virtual power plants, and more. Subscribe to the Texas Power Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
Today, everything is becoming intelligent, instrumented, and interconnected. By 2025 there will be over 38 billion connected devices globally generating more than 180 trillion gigabytes of data. Nowhere is this trend more pervasive than renewable energy, especially when there are so many expectations for renewables to pave the way for a greener future.
The Department of Energy awarded 20 companies a total of $2.8 billion in infrastructure law funding to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid, and for materials and components currently imported from other countries.
By Megan Gleason/Source NM, Energy News Network
New Mexico’s community solar program is supposed to help people with low incomes and organizations get clean energy for cheaper. But regulators are calling out utility companies for trying to charge consumers too much before the program has even launched.
Contributed by Matthew A. Karmel, Esq.
Dominion Energy is buying a second utility-scale battery project from energy storage developer East Point Energy.
At 15.7 MW/62.8 MWh, the Shands energy storage project would be one of the largest standalone storage projects in Virginia when it becomes operational in 2023.
Primergy Solar signed a sole battery supply agreement with Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) for the $1.2 billion Gemini solar + storage project outside of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Once completed, Gemini will be one of the largest operational solar and storage projects in the U.S., with a 690 MWac/966 MWdc solar array and 1,416 MWh storage capability.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) published a study that examines future U.S. offshore wind workforce growth and identifies future workforce development needs.
The report estimates that the offshore wind industry will need an average of between 15,000 and 58,000 full-time jobs every year from 2024 to 2030, depending on the amount of American-made content used. That is an expected increase from fewer than 1,000 jobs today, NREL said.
The date has been set for California's first offshore wind lease auction.
The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) said that the auction for rights to develop waters off central and northern California will be held on December 6. The auction represents the first ever along the U.S. Pacific Coast.
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