Utility-scale Solar News
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U.S. Announces New Actions for Clean Energy on Public Lands
The Biden-Harris administration this week announced a series of historic milestones and actions to promote responsible clean energy development on public lands and help achieve President Biden’s goal of creating a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035.Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced that the Department has now permitted more than 25 gigawatts of clean energy projects – ...
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New 46-MW Pennsylvania solar array will support utility grants for LMI residents
Four Twelve Renewables is unveiling its inaugural utility-scale solar facility in Greene Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The 46-MWDC facility, known as BE Pine, is made up of approximately 98,000 bifacial solar panels. BE Pine is the first project in Four Twelve Renewables’ portfolio. Four Twelve is an energy developer seeking to use clean, abundant natural resources to generate ...
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TotalEnergies Starts Up in Texas a 380 MW Utility-Scale Solar Power Plant with Battery Storage
TotalEnergies has started commercial operations of Myrtle Solar, its utility-scale operated solar farm in the United States. Located south of Houston, Texas, Myrtle has a capacity of 380 megawatts peak (MWp) of solar production and 225 MWh of co-located batteries. With 705,000 ground-mounted photovoltaic panels installed over an area equivalent to 1,800 American football fields, Myrtle produces ...
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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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DOE Releases New Report on Pathways to Commercial Liftoff for Virtual Power Plants
By JIGAR SHAH, Director of the Loan Programs Office The U.S. Department of Energy this week (Sept 12) announced the release of the Pathways to Commercial Liftoff for Virtual Power Plants (VPPs), underscoring the critical role that VPPs need to play in the Nation's affordable, reliable, and clean energy future. With peak electricity demand rising and old coal and gas power plants retiring, the ...
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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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Salt River Project and CMBlu Energy Announce Launch of Innovative Energy Storage Project
Salt River Project, a community-based, not-for-profit public power utility and the largest electricity provider in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, and CMBlu Energy, a designer and manufacturer of long-duration Organic SolidFlow energy storage systems, announced a pilot project to deploy long-duration energy storage (LDES) in the Phoenix area. The 5-megawatt (MW), 10-hour-duration project, ...
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Iowa Utilities Board examine power company regulations for cost-effectiveness, reliability
This week, the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) kicked off the first of three public input and discussion sessions to review state laws related to how utilities set their rates. These sessions will wrap up in early November and will result in a set of legislative recommendations to be considered in the 2024 legislative session. This process stemmed from the passage this year of House File 617, which ...
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Renewables Competitiveness Accelerates, Despite Cost Inflation
The fossil fuel price crisis has accelerated the competitiveness of renewable power. Around 86 per cent (187 gigawatts) of all the newly commissioned renewable capacity in 2022 had lower costs than fossil fuel-fired electricity. Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2022, published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) this week (Aug 29) shows that the renewable power added in 2022 ...
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Dominion Energy, Airports Authority break ground on solar and energy storage project at Dulles
Officials from Dominion Energy and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) were joined by federal, state and local leaders this week (Aug 22) to break ground on the Dulles Solar and Storage project at Dulles International Airport. Located in the southwest corner of Dulles International Airport, the Dulles Solar and Storage project will generate enough clean energy to power more than ...
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Data Show Clean Power Increasing, Fossil Fuel Decreasing in California
Data from the California Energy Commission (CEC) highlight California's continued progress toward building a more resilient grid, achieving 100 percent clean electricity and meeting the state's carbon neutrality goals. Analysis of the state's Total System Electric Generation report shows how California's power mix has changed over the last decade. Since 2012: Solar generation increased nearly ...
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Terabase Raises $25M to Accelerate its Digital and Automation Solutions
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, July 19, 2023 - Terabase Energy, the leader in digital and automation solutions for solar power plants, today announced $25 Million in new financing, led by Fifth Wall, the largest asset manager focused on improving, future-proofing, and decarbonizing the built world, with participation from EDP Ventures and existing investors. This financing round will be used to support ...
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Extreme Weather, Cyber and Physical Security Continue to Create Reliability Challenges
NERC's 2023 State of Reliability (SOR) finds that overall, the North American bulk power system (BPS) remains highly reliable and resilient. However, extreme weather events continue to pose the greatest risk to its reliability and stability. Transmission system reliability has improved significantly for the fifth consecutive year, and the rate of protection system misoperations also continues to ...
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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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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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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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EIA Expects Record Global Petroleum Consumption in 2024, with Lower Crude Oil Prices
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects global consumption of liquid fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, to set new record highs in 2024. According to EIA’s January Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), global liquid fuel consumption will exceed 100 million barrels per day, on average, in 2023 for the first time since 2019, then average more than 102 million barrels per day ...
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PXiSE announces Tim Allen as new President and CEO
PXiSE Energy Solutions enthusiastically announces that effective January 1, 2023, Tim Allen has assumed leadership as President and CEO. Tim brings more than 22 years of experience across utility-scale solar, wind and energy storage projects, software controls, investor-owned utility, independent power producer and pure developer realms. His unique set of skills, beginning with an Electrical ...
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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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