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President Joe Biden will reportedly pause for two years any new tariffs on solar modules imported from four Southeast Asian countries that are the subject of a federal trade investigation, according to multiple reports.

(Mon, 06 Jun 2022) EIA presents alternative cases to the <em>Annual Energy Outlook 2022</em> (AEO2022) that investigate how weather affects residential and commercial building energy demand. These cases focus on different cooling and heating degree day projections—indicators of space heating and space cooling energy demand, respectively—relative to other AEO cases.

New York State officials announced awards for 22 solar and energy storage projects. The awards total more than 2,100 MW of solar and almost 130 MW of storage capacity, and are the state’s largest land-based renewable energy procurement to date. The projects could result in more than $2.7 billion in private investment.

Lawyers for the town of Christiana, Wisconsin–whose 1,300 residents live around 30 minutes southeast of the state capital of Madison–filed a lawsuit in late May seeking to overturn a regulatory decision approving a $650 million, 300 MW solar facility and 165 MW battery storage system being developed by Chicago-based Invenergy.

SSE said its investment in Great Britain’s electricity infrastructure system could total more than GBP24 billion ($30 billion) this decade, as part of its Net Zero Acceleration Programme (NZAP).

The company’s integrated operations stretch from renewables to regulated electricity networks. It plans to invest in some of the world’s largest offshore and onshore wind projects, critical network upgrades, hydrogen, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydroelectric power.

Capstone Green Energy said an affiliate secured an order to deliver and maintain a hybrid photovoltaic (PV) solar and microturbine trigeneration system for a hotel complex in Jamaica.

The new system is expected to negate the hotel company’s previously planned spend on a 2 MW standby generator.

DISTRIBUTECH International, the leading annual transmission and distribution event, and POWERGEN International, the business and networking hub for electricity generators, are now recruiting speakers for events to be held in 2023.

DISTRIBUTECH will be held in San Diego, California Feb. 7-9, while POWERGEN will take place in Orlando, Florida Feb. 21-23.

TransAlta Renewables said that it will rehab two wind farms and amend and extend existing power purchase agreements with New Brunswick Power Corp. related to the Kent Hills 1, 2 and 3 facilities, representing a total generating capacity of 167 MW.  

Construction is complete on a 100 MW solar project in Mississippi, making it the largest operating solar farm in the state.

The Sunflower Solar Station will generate enough energy to power 16,000 homes within Entergy Mississippi's system.

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