Energy Update
August is often seen as the end of something, whether it’s winter in the southern hemisphere or summer in the north. It’s the return to school for some and the last call for a vacation to others.
August, author Sue Monk Kidd wrote, is the “griddle where days just lay there and sizzle.” Hot, hot, hot.
The Indiana subsidiary of AES Corp. will acquire and oversee the building of a 250-MW solar and 180-MWh energy storage facility in that state.
AES Indiana is acquiring the Petersburg Solar Project in Pike County, Ind., from NextEra Energy Resources LLC, a division of Florida-based NextEra Energy. NextEra will continue to develop and construct the project. It will be connected to AES Indiana’s existing 2.1-GW coal-fired Petersburg Generating Station.
By Shelley Robbins, Clean Energy Group
Originally published at ILSR.org
Electricity customers are lining up to generate their own clean, affordable solar energy, but to get it to them, solar developers must navigate the impediments of a congested and outdated electricity grid.
NextEra Energy – owner of Florida Power & Light, Gulf Power, and NextEra Energy Resources – added 1.8 gigawatts of renewables and storage to its backlog in the second quarter of 2021, the company reported last week.
The Biden administration – through the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) – is advancing the process to bring offshore wind energy development to California and North Carolina.
BOEM published a request for information from the public for commercial offshore wind in two new areas off central California – identified as the Morro Bay Call Area East and West Extensions. The extensions are adjacent to the Morro Bay Call Area with a combined total area of 399 square miles.
Calpine and GE Renewable Energy this month announced completion of a 80-MWh standalone battery storage system in southern California.
The Santa Ana Storage Project, which uses GE’s Reservoir energy storage technology, entered into commercial operation. The 20-MW, 80-MWh capacity is supported by a 20-year Resource Adequacy Power Purchase Agreement.
By Michael Castellarin and Michael Andrisani
By Ian Palmer, PhD
The world can address greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in different ways. The direct way is by reducing fossil fuel production, the main source at 73% of global GHG.
Europe is following this approach, perhaps because its companies don’t have the enormous success of a shale revolution to maintain.
In Europe, companies and countries are diversifying into renewables as illustrated by the following:
In 2020, renewables generated a record 834 billion kWh of electricity, or about 21% of all the electricity generated in the U.S., according to the Energy Information Administration, coming in second to natural gas at 1,617 billion kWh.
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