Solar Grid News
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Transforming old batteries into new resources to improve lives in Africa
IEC’s vision to create a safer, more efficient world gained further momentum recently with the launch of a new project supported by the IEC Global Impact Fund (GIF). Differ Community Power (DCP), an international provider of solar energy services to communities, has been selected to determine the feasibility of using second life lithium batteries to rehabilitate solar PV installations at ...
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Transforming old batteries into new resources to improve lives in Africa
IEC’s vision to create a safer, more efficient world gained further momentum recently with the launch of a new project supported by the IEC Global Impact Fund (GIF). Differ Community Power (DCP), an international provider of solar energy services to communities, has been selected to determine the feasibility of using second life lithium batteries to rehabilitate solar PV installations at ...
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NASEO and NARUC Release Solar Cybersecurity Toolkit for States
The National Association of State Energy Officials and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office, released the Cybersecurity Advisory Team for State Solar (CATSS) Toolkit. The CATSS Toolkit provides State Energy Offices and public utility commissions with actionable information on cybersecurity ...
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ESS Commissions First Iron Flow Battery Deployment for Sacramento Municipal Utility District
ESS Tech, Inc., a leading manufacturer of long-duration energy storage systems (LDES) for commercial and utility-scale applications, this week announced that it has completed commissioning of six Energy Warehouse™ systems delivered to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the nation’s sixth-largest community-owned electric service provider. The six Energy Warehouse™ systems represent ...
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Hawaiian Electric Highlights Renewable Energy Progress in 2022-23 Sustainability Report
By the end of 2022, 37% of single-family homes across the five islands Hawaiian Electric serves had rooftop solar, Oahu's first grid-scale solar and storage project was online, and the state's last remaining coal plant was retired. That's the kind of progress outlined in Hawaiian Electric's 2022-23 Corporate Sustainability Report, "Building a Strong and Resilient Hawaii Together," now online. ...
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EIA Explores Effects of Inflation Reduction Act on the Annual Energy Outlook
Principal contributor: Stephanie Tsao In 2050, we project that total U.S. solar capacity, which includes both utility-scale solar and rooftop solar in the commercial and residential sectors, could range from 532 gigawatts (GW) to 1,399 GW. In our Annual Energy Outlook 2023 (AEO2023), we present 16 scenarios, or cases, that project long-term energy trends in the United States through 2050. Our ...
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Idaho's Largest Energy Storage Projects Under Construction; More Solar on the Way
Utility-scale battery storage and solar facilities are becoming important tools for Idaho Power as the company works to keep energy reliable and affordable while demand for electricity continues to grow rapidly. Construction has begun on Idaho's first utility-scale energy storage installations, which are expected to begin coming online this summer. An 80-megawatt (MW) battery energy storage ...
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JCP&L Connects Largest Landfill Solar Project in North America to Electric Grid
Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., has completed a grid connection for a 19.8-megawatt solar project located at a former landfill property in Mount Olive, New Jersey, that is now delivering clean energy through FirstEnergy's transmission lines. For the past year, JCP&L has worked with the project's developer to construct a grid connection point ...
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ComEd Issues Multi-Year Plans to Advance Region's Economic, Climate and Equity Goals
ComEd this week (Jan 17) filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) multi-year grid and rate plans that are designed to strengthen the region's infrastructure and economy and increase access to the benefits of clean energy and decarbonization under the state's Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA). The plans also are intended to ensure that the electric grid remains reliable and resilient ...
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Commercial Operation Commences at National Grid Renewables’ Noble Solar & Storage Project
National Grid Renewables announced this week the start of commercial operation at its Noble Solar and Storage Project (Noble) in Denton County, Texas. Noble is a 275 megawatt (MW) solar and 125 megawatt-hour (MWh) energy storage project located in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market that began construction last year. “With the start of operation at our Noble project, National ...
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CPUC Issues Solar Tariff Modernization Proposal To Support Reliability and Decarbonization
The California Public Utilities Commission this week (Nov 10) issued a proposal to modernize the Net Energy Metering (NEM) solar tariff to promote solar and battery storage, grid reliability, and control electricity costs for Californians. The update launches the solar industry into the future so that it can support the modern grid by incentivizing solar paired with battery storage and the ...
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Sunrun to Build and Operate Puerto Rico's First Virtual Power Plant
Sunrun, a leading home solar, battery storage, and energy services provider, this week (Nov 1) announced it has been exclusively selected by Puerto Rico's electric utility provider to help rebuild and transform the island's energy system through the development of a 17 megawatt virtual power plant (VPP), the first distributed large-scale storage program on the island. The VPP is intended to help ...
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Ember Analysis: Europe Can Achieve Clean Power by 2035 at No Extra Cost
Modelling by energy think tank Ember reveals that Europe can achieve a clean, reliable and expanded power system by 2035, with a comparable overall cost to Europe’s current plans for a smaller and more polluting electricity supply. Upgrading the system and quadrupling growth in wind and solar capacity requires an additional upfront investment of €300-750 billion. However, ditching expensive ...
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ESS Inc. and SMUD Announce Agreement to Deploy up to 200 MW / 2 GWh of Long-Duration Energy Storage
ESS Inc., a leading manufacturer of long-duration iron flow batteries for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications, and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the nation’s sixth-largest, community-owned, not-for-profit electric service provider, this wek announced an agreement to provide up to 200 megawatts / 2 gigawatt-hours of ESS’ environmentally safe and sustainable ...
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Nexamp Provides Non-Wires Alternative Solution for National Grid Substation in New York
Nexamp, together with National Grid, is addressing increased energy demand at the Coffeen substation in Watertown, New York with the construction of a new solar + storage facility that will eliminate the need for additional transmission lines or substation upgrades through a Non-Wires Alternative (NWA) approach. NWA projects are designed to reduce cost and complexity by using distributed energy ...
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The Pulse Partnership with EcoPhi
THE PULSE Rwanda Ltd., a Rwanda based company that will manage a network of rural centers for business, services & leisure at the last mile (“THE PULSE Centers”), with the mission to connect and transform the micro-economies of rural Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BoP) communities, announced today a partnership with EcoPhi, a Germany based company that focuses on remote ...
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Duke Energy Supports Reliability, Grid Operations with Two New Lithium-ion Battery Sites in Florida
Duke Energy Florida this week announced two new lithium-ion battery sites in Alachua and Hamilton counties to enhance grid operations, increase efficiencies and improve overall reliability for surrounding communities. As the grid manager and operator, Duke Energy Florida can optimize the versatility of battery technology to provide multiple customer and electric system benefits, to include ...
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ESS to Deliver an Expected 12 GWh of Long-Duration Storage Iron Flow Batteries in Australia
ESS Inc. this week announced a strategic partnership with Energy Storage Industries Asia Pacific (ESI) to distribute and manufacture iron flow batteries utilizing ESS technology in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania to meet rapidly growing demand for long-duration energy storage in the region. Under the terms of the agreement, ESS will initially supply 70 complete 75kW / 500kWh Energy Warehouse ...
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DOE Invests $26 Million in Program to Demonstrate Grid Can Run on 100% Clean Energy
The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), this week announced $26 million to fund projects intended to demonstrate that America's electricity grid can reliably run with a mix of solar, wind, energy storage, and other clean distributed energy resources. Funded by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Solar and Wind Grid Services and Reliability ...
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Solar Company of the Year: Monitoring Solutions
EcoPhi Renewables Engineering GmbH won the prestigious ‘Solar Company of the Year: Monitoring Solutions’ award at KENYA SOLAR WEEK LEADERSHIP AWARDS 2022. The event focused on utility-scale solar, grid-connected rooftop solar, and off-grid solutions. There were exciting discussions and debates about the latest regulatory frameworks, current and future technology and business ...
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