Energy Update
Black & Veatch announced today that it has been selected by Enegix Energy to perform feasibility studies central to the development of the world’s largest green hydrogen plant. When operational the Base One facility, in Ceará, Brazil could produce more than 600 million kilogrammes of green hydrogen annually.
Swell Energy this week announced the start of a residential solar plus storage program for homeowners in Queens, New York. The program will be deployed in partnership with Con Edison and aims to deliver 500-kW of capacity in the form of solar-powered home batteries to eligible customers creating an aggregated network of distributed energy resources.
Wisconsin utilities are jointly planning to build up 625 MW worth of combined solar and energy storage capacity in the state.
We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service, both subsidiaries of the WEC Energy Group, are proposing the 325-MW Darien Solar Energy Center and storage project in Rock and Walworth counties. The $446 million site would feature 250 MW of solar generation and linked to 75 MW of battery storage.
Southeast Energy Exchange Market (SEEM) is the latest effort by utilities in the southeast to organize themselves to realize cost savings with scale. Until now, an energy imbalance market from the west is a living market model for multi-state governance and market participation.
Today, Solar FlexRack, a division of Northern States Metals announced that it supplied its tracker solution for Jack’s Solar Garden, a 1.2-MW community solar farm and the largest agrivoltaic research project in the U.S., located in Boulder County, Colorado. The solar project was designed and built by Namasté Solar.
A controversial Illinois coal plant that has locked municipalities across the Midwest into financially crushing contracts could be forced to close within a decade under proposed state clean energy legislation.
The Clean Energy Jobs Act would require mandatory closure dates for all coal plants in the state, including the Prairie State Energy Campus, a 1,600-megawatt southern Illinois power station that is by far the state’s largest carbon emitter.
RWE has taken over a further 20% stake from E.ON in the British offshore wind farm Rampion.
RWE now holds a majority stake (50.1%) in the 400MW wind farm, which is already being operated by RWE Renewables.
As part of its transaction with E.ON, a 30.1% stake was transferred to RWE in 2019. The closing of the transaction is expected to take place in the first half of 2021.
Originally published at ILSR.org
Hosting an in-person community gathering may be unthinkable these days, but that is exactly how Hanover, N.H. endorsed its 100 percent renewable energy goal back in 2017: a show of hands in the high school gymnasium.
The U.S. solar industry grew 43% and installed a record 19.2 gigawatts (GWdc) of capacity in 2020, according to the U.S. Solar Market Insight 2020 Year-in-Review report, released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie.
U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King announced that Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) in Portland, Ore., has been awarded $3,615,260 to build, test and operate a modular current energy converter to improve the next generation of river-powered turbines.
This competitive funding was awarded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office.
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