Energy Update
The U.S. Departments of Energy and Health & Human Services said that five states and Washington, D.C. will support the pilot of a Community Solar Subscription Platform. The program is intended to connect families to solar energy and thereby lower electricity bills through the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and other low-income assistance programs.
The U.S. solar industry added 21,563 jobs in 2021, a year-over-year increase of 9% from 2020, according to a new report.
Generate Capital has entered the grid-scale, front-of-meter battery storage market with the acquisition of California-based developer esVolta LP.
In June, FERC laid out a set of proposed rules to address what possibly is the biggest threat facing clean energy deployment goals in the US: interconnection delays.
In a move that some are calling a big step toward a future powered by clean energy, the MISO Board of Directors unanimously approved on July 25 the Tranche 1 Long Range Transmission Planning (LRTP) portfolio of new transmission projects.
The $10.3 billion investment includes 18 transmission projects in MISO’s Midwest Subregion. The grid operator found a benefit-to-cost ratio of at least 2.6, where benefits well exceed costs.
The 5 MW floating solar park in the reservoir of the Alqueva pumped storage project in Portugal was inaugurated on July 15.
Ukraine is planning an ambitious build-back of renewables of up to 30GW by the end of the decade after seeing substantial parts of its nascent wind and solar capacity wiped off the grid during the war with Russia.
Maxim Timchenko, head of the country’s energy company DTEK, revealed yesterday that about 90% of wind power and 30% of solar capacity has been knocked out of operation because their locations have fallen into Russian-occupied territory.
The Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) is making a conditional commitment to Ultium Cells LLC for a $2.5 billion loan to help finance construction of new lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery cell manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan.
Executives from NextEra Energy Resources said a two-year pause on new tariffs on solar modules imported from Southeast Asia provides the clarity to restart projects that were halted because of uncertainty created by a trade case.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling on energy regulators to increase the state’s offshore wind target to at least 20 GW by 2045.
Newsom is asking the California Energy Commission (CEC) to implement the goal as part of the Assembly Bill 525 process. In May, the CEC set a preliminary target of 3 GW of offshore wind by 2030 and 15 GW by 2045.
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