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Nextracker said it launched its NX Horizon-XTR product, a terrain-following, single-axis tracker intended to expand the use of solar power on sites with sloped, uneven, and other terrain challenges. 

By Marcy Gordon, AP Business Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Companies would be required to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions they produce and how climate risk affects their business under new rules proposed Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a drive across the government to address climate change.

Commentators replying in FERC docket #ER22-962 realize that by imposing a must-offer requirement on net energy metered distributed energy resources, PJM is restricting a significant portion of DERs from participating in wholesale markets even though FERC allows resources to participate in both wholesale and retail programs.

A cobalt-free lithium-ion battery manufacturing startup wants to hire displaced coal miners to staff a gigafactory it plans to build in West Virginia.

Sparkz will partner with the United Mine Workers to recruit and train 350 workers, the company announced. Groundbreaking for the facility is expected sometime this year.

A 998 MW wind farm is now operational in Oklahoma.

The Traverse Wind Energy Center becomes one of the largest wind farms in operation in the U.S. with an expected output of 3.8 million MWh annually.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a method for cleaning solar panels that could potentially save billions of gallons of water.

A fully recyclable wind turbine blade prototype has been developed and is ready for structural testing, said the consortium of researchers and industry leaders behind the project.

Two of the most fundamental elements for sustainable development – heat and cold – are hard to come by in off-grid communities. Both are essential to sanitation and medical provision, and therefore to survival. Being able to stay clean and healthy also has enormous knock-on effects for the long-term success of populations.

Six teams of marine energy innovators have advanced from the design to the build contest in the Ocean Observing Prize.

A joint effort of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Integrated Ocean Observing System, this multistage prize is administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Minnesota will soon distribute $7.5 million in grants to up to 80 schools as part of the launch of a new program that is bringing solar power to campuses across the state.

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