Energy Update
The U.S. Department of Commerce gave itself another 15 days to wrap up an initial review of a bid by a domestic solar manufacturer seeking tariffs to be imposed on module imports from four Asian countries.
In a one-page statement dated March 10, Commerce said it needed more time to review and assess what it described as “novel and complex” issues raised by Auxin Solar’s request. Commerce set a March 25 deadline to complete its initial review.
San Antonio-based CPS Energy signed a 15-year commercial agreement with Quidnet Energy for a 1 MW, 10-hour energy storage facility using geomechanical pumped storage technology. Following initial deployment, the municipal utility has the option to expand the project to 15 MW.
Ørsted and Maersk, global leaders in their respective industries of renewable energy and shipping, are partnering on a green fuels project along the Gulf Coast.
Ørsted plans to develop a 675 MW Power-to-X facility in an unidentified location. The facility would be supported by 1.2 GW of onshore wind and solar farms.
Deployments of ocean energy devices are back to pre-pandemic levels, with Europe installing over 10 times as much tidal energy capacity and three times as much wave energy capacity in 2021 as compared with 2020, Ocean Energy Europe reports.
The U.S. solar industry faced unprecedented price increases and project delays in 2021 due to supply chain and trade issues that persist today. The turmoil posed a threat to President Joe Biden's decarbonization goals, according to a new report.
With MISO and SPP compliance plans for FERC Order 2222 due in April, the attention shifts to collecting patterns on key requirements for aggregated distributed resources. Order 2222 allows broad aggregations both geographically and technically. But as FERC and other DER providers observe, not all ISOs have complied with the broad aggregation requirement.
“Go West, young man!” This phrase referring to the pioneering days of this country implied that the West was a land of opportunity. In the Midwest, the western part of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) territory is rich with renewable energy resources, but interconnecting new renewable generation to the grid there has been stymied by a lack of transmission capacity.
The Florida Legislature has passed changes to the state's net metering policy that has solar advocates warning of "nightmare" impacts to rooftop solar customers.
U.S. solar module manufacturers are asking for President Biden to back legislation that would bolster the domestic supply chain, calling the current moment "an inflection point" for the industry.
In early March, electric grid operators Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) and Southwest Power Pool (SPP) released the results of their 18-month study focused on improving reliability and resolving targeted transmission constraints along their shared boundaries or “seams.” The project, also known as the Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue (JTIQ) study, focused on developing transmission where there is congestion between the two regional transmission operator (RTO) territories to
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