Solar Power Generation News
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NYISO Announces New Renewable Energy Generation Records
The New York Independent System Operator this week (March 25) reported that New York recently set new records for hourly wind and solar generation.Wind power facilities generated 2,176 megawatts during the 1p.m. hour on Saturday, March 9 and served 12 percent of system load.Behind-the-meter and front-of-the-meter solar resources generated 3,832 megawatts during the 12 p.m. hour on Tuesday, March ...
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SDG&E Unveils Four Advanced Microgrids to Boost Grid Resilience and Reliability
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) this week unveiled four new microgrids featuring advanced remote operation capabilities and state-of-the-art safety technologies to help enhance grid reliability and bolster resiliency for the surrounding communities. The four microgrid and energy storage sites, located in the communities of Clairemont, Tierra Santa, Paradise, and Boulevard, will help ...
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PowerFlex doubles rooftop solar array for athletic apparel brand
PowerFlex announced the completion of the second rooftop solar project for athletic wear brand ASICS at its Byhalia Distribution Center in Mississippi. The completion of the 1-MW solar rooftop brings the total solar generated power at the distribution center to 2 MW that will power the building load and directly offset utility costs. The system is the largest solar PV rooftop in Byhalia and ...
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Duke Energy to Build Nation's First End-to-End Green Hydrogen Combustion Turbine System
Duke Energy this week (Oct 27) announced it soon will break ground in DeBary, Fla., on the first demonstration project in the United States to successfully create clean energy using an end-to-end system to produce, store and combust 100% green hydrogen. The innovative system is the result of collaboration between Duke Energy, Sargent and Lundy, and GE Vernova and will be located at Duke Energy ...
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Ideal Energy Designs Groundbreaking 'Agrivoltaics' Solar Array
In a pioneering initiative, Iowa State University (ISU) is embarking on a research project to explore the combination of crops and solar power. The Alliant Solar Farm at Iowa State University is a groundbreaking agrivoltaics research project merging solar power generation and agriculture to study how best to optimize land use while providing local community benefits. A new 1.75-megawatt ...
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Vermont's First Fully Storm Resilient, All-Electric Neighborhood Launched
Construction is now underway for Vermont's first all-electric, fully storm resilient neighborhood. U.S. Senator Peter Welch joined Governor Phil Scott and the President and CEO of O'Brien Brothers, and the President and CEO of Green Mountain Power (GMP) for a groundbreaking celebration for Hillside East in South Burlington, Vermont. The neighborhood and homes are designed with climate and storm ...
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NYPA Study Shows Benefits of Solar Forecasting for Maintaining Effective Grid Operations
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) and its research partners have completed a multi-year study to help New York State's growing solar industry deploy weather forecasting technology to better anticipate power generation and improve electric grid reliability. The project addresses challenges raised by the uncertainty related to solar output by offering advanced forecasting methods and making a ...
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Matexcel Updated Its Photovoltaic Product Analysis Service for Research Use
Matexcel, a biotechnology company in material science, recently updated its Photovoltaic Product Analysis Service to assist scientists and researchers better with their projects. Products that use solar cells to transform light energy into electrical energy are referred to as photovoltaic products. In a broad sense, photovoltaic products refer to items like solar street lights, traffic lights, ...
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Entergy Seeks Approval for Largest Renewable Power Expansion in Louisiana History
To do its part to protect the environment and help the state grow through economic development, Entergy Louisiana recently made the largest renewable power expansion request in state history. On March 13, the company filed a request with its regulator, the Louisiana Public Service Commission, for approval to add an additional three gigawatts of solar power to its generation portfolio. This is on ...
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Shifted Energy Expands Grid-Interactive Buildings and Virtual Power Plants with New Seed Funding
Shifted Energy, a leading distributed energy resources (DER) platform, this week (March 6) announced the closing of a $4.3M seed funding round that will help the company expand energy efficiency programs and distribute smart energy products. Co-led by EPIC Ventures and Kapor Capital, with participating investors Buoyant Ventures, Startup Capital Ventures x SBI Fund, and Hunt Development, the ...
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Solar Energy: Clean Energy Storage Sources
Supercapacitors for Solar Energy Storage, efficiency of +97% efficiency and 30+ years of life The solar system is considered as one of the most efficient clean energy sources for power production. Solar systems can be connected with either on-grid or off-grid depending upon the availability of the grid. Off-grid stand-alone applications use batteries as their main storage system. A traditional ...
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Honeywell And Freyr Collaborate To Deploy Energy Storage Solutions Via Next-Generation Battery Cells
Honeywell and FREYR Battery announced this week they have signed an agreement pursuant to which FREYR will, subject to viability, leverage Honeywell's leading technology offerings, including integrated automation, field instrumentation and security integration solutions in their manufacturing process. As part of the collaboration, Honeywell will purchase 19 GWh of battery cells produced by FREYR ...
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The power generation of Inner Mongolia Uratzhongqi 100MW Parabolic Trough CSP Project exceeds the design index
From 0:00 to 24:00 on September 10, 2021, China's first batch of solar thermal power generation demonstration project - Inner Mongolia Wulatzhongqi 100MW trough Thermal oil 10-hour Energy Storage solar thermal Power Generation Project (hereinafter referred to as "Wulat Project"), under cloudy weather conditions in the morning, the one-day power generation reached 2.128,000 kWh. Although there ...
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GARBE Renewable Energy – GREEN GmbH launches pilot project for innovative PV solutions from Heliatek GmbH in Berlin
Berlin Hohenschönhausen, 14 October 2021. The project, funded by the EU under the ‘LIFE’ programme, was officially commissioned on 13 October 2021 by representatives of the European Commission's funding commission, the project partner COMSA and representatives of the companies involved. Avoiding CO2 emissions wherever possible – GREEN also pursues this goal for managed ...
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DOE Awards $45 Million to Advance Solar Manufacturing and Grid Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy this week announced $45 million for projects that will help seamlessly integrate clean energy sources onto the grid, supporting the Biden Administration's goal of a decarbonized power sector by 2035. As solar and other renewable energy are rapidly deployed throughout the country, these projects are developing new technologies and capabilities to bolster the ...
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Secretary Granholm Announces New Goal to Cut Costs of Long Duration Energy Storage by 90 Percent
U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm this week announced the U.S. Department of Energy's new goal to reduce the cost of grid-scale, long duration energy storage by 90% within the decade. The second target within DOE's Energy Earthshot Initiative, "Long Duration Storage Shot" sets bold goals to accelerate breakthroughs that store clean electricity to make it available anytime, anywhere ...
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TVA Replacing Natural Gas Units, Supports Solar Growth
The nation's largest public power utility continued its path to a cleaner energy future as the Tennessee Valley Authority completed its environmental review and is moving forward with building new lower-emission, natural gas-fueled combustion turbines at shuttered coal plants in Tuscumbia, Alabama and Paradise, Kentucky. The new units will replace capacity from retiring CT units elsewhere on the ...
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Nuvve Expands Vehicle-to-Grid Footprint
Nuvve Holding Corp., provider of a leading vehicle-to-grid (V2G) platform, announced this week that it has been selected as the energy technology provider that will enable school districts and utilities in San Diego, Calif. and Durango, Colo. to accelerate the electrification of their school buses. Nuvve's V2G technology is seen as creating value for the customers of these deployments by lowering ...
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LG Electronics And Sense Announce Collaboration On AI-Driven Home Solar And Usage Monitoring
LG Electronics has announced its collaboration with Sense, a leading provider of home energy monitors for consumers, to deliver to LG residential solar customers detailed, real-time data on their homes' solar generation and power usage down to the appliance level using the Sense Solar Home Energy Monitor.Consumers have little visibility into their day-to-day electricity consumption and how using ...
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PG&E Lays Groundwork for Permanent, Multi-Customer Microgrids
Today, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) launched its Community Microgrid Enablement Program (CMEP) to help communities identify, design and build permanent, multi-customer microgrids serving critical facilities and vulnerable customer groups. Through this new program approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), PG&E will provide technical and financial support ...
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