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FERC orders reliability standards, registration requirements for wind, solar, storage to protect the grid
The agency is acting partly in response to reliability risks of inverter-based resources unexpectedly tripping offline.
By Ethan Howland • Nov. 18, 2022 -
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Sunrun among 240+ companies pressing Commerce Department to reject Auxin solar tariff petition
The department’s preliminary determination, due Dec. 1, could destabilize the solar industry “with the ink barely dry on the historic IRA,” SEIA and the companies said Wednesday.
By Emma Penrod • Nov. 17, 2022 -
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TrendlineThe Energy Transition to Renewables
New policy and business actions are giving a significant boost to renewable energy in the U.S., but opposition is growing and grid interconnection, permitting, labor and other challenges remain.
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OpinionCross-border power trade can help leaders at COP27 facilitate emissions reductions
Enhancing cross-border power trade can help achieve global greenhouse gas reduction goals by efficiently integrating low-cost renewable resources while improving electricity affordability and security.
By Jennifer Chen, Edmund Downie and Noah Kittner • Nov. 16, 2022 -
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Deep DiveUS can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds, but tough reliability and land use questions lie ahead
New aggressive planning is needed to identify the long-duration storage technologies and find the land to grow enough resources to reach the Biden administration’s net zero emissions goals, a DOE national lab reports.
By Herman K. Trabish • Nov. 15, 2022 -
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OpinionThe Inflation Reduction Act leaves low-income homeowners out of the clean energy transition. Or does it?
The IRA has a major flaw in one of its most popular provisions – the residential tax credit for solar and battery storage. Low-income homeowners often do not have a tax liability and cannot access this 30% tax credit.
By Shelley Robbins • Nov. 15, 2022 -
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DOE offers nearly $350M for pilot projects advancing long-duration energy storage
Up to 11 demonstration projects would enable energy storage over long durations as more renewable sources become available.
By Stephen Singer • Nov. 15, 2022 -
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US renewables, storage sectors set to avoid tougher building standards that industry said could kill projects
Solar Energy Industries Association-proposed code changes that are less stringent than those a FEMA advisory panel proposed for solar and storage projects won initial International Code Council approval.
By Ethan Howland • Nov. 14, 2022 -
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OpinionThe clock is ticking: Urgent steps New York must take to achieve its climate targets
New York needs to act now to improve climate resilience, electrify the transportation system, decarbonize the gas system, and identify equitable economy-wide solutions to cut carbon emissions.
By Mary Barber • Nov. 11, 2022 -
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SMUD tests tool to accelerate rooftop solar interconnections
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District project “has worldwide potential,” according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and can “easily handle hundreds of applications daily.”
By Robert Walton • Nov. 10, 2022 -
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Deep DiveAs FERC’s transmission proposal sparks clashes, potential solutions emerge from MISO, elsewhere
Federal transmission planning reforms must decide who builds and where, who benefits and pays, who balances state and national interests, and who enforces the rules, stakeholders said.
By Herman K. Trabish • Nov. 7, 2022 -
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Duke Energy greenlights sale of $4B commercial renewable energy unit amid ‘robust’ interest
Proceeds from the sale will help the company reduce debt and lower costs associated with decarbonization amid rising interest rates, CEO Lynn Good told investors on Friday.
By Emma Penrod • Nov. 7, 2022 -
DTE Electric proposes $9B spend on 5.4 GW renewables, 760 MW storage, coal-to-gas power plant switch
The Detroit-based utility aims to exit coal in 2035, with carbon capture and small nuclear reactors as replacement options.
By Ethan Howland • Nov. 4, 2022 -
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Low-income households’ residential solar adoption is rising, but a stark income gap remains the U.S. norm
More residential solar adoption in middle- and lower-income states like Texas and Florida has helped close the national income gap, according to the report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
By Emma Penrod • Nov. 3, 2022 -
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Clean energy deployments tumble 22% in Q3 to 3-year low as delayed projects rise to 36 GW: report
However, while installations of solar and onshore wind capacity fell, battery storage installations grew significantly.
By Robert Walton • Nov. 3, 2022 -
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OpinionAs Memphis Light, Gas and Water weighs an exit, is TVA headed for a renewable energy sea change?
TVA could soon be facing a widespread defection of other local power companies, opening the field to an increasingly renewable future for its customers, the author writes.
By Gaby Sarri-Tobar • Nov. 3, 2022 -
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AES Indiana says converting 1,052 MW of coal to gas will be $381M cheaper than renewables and storage
The utility’s resource plan includes little near-term solar and fails to take advantage of Inflation Reduction Act tax credits for “energy communities,” said Ben Inskeep, Citizens Action Coalition program director.
By Ethan Howland • Nov. 2, 2022 -
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Xcel to retire Texas coal-fired power plant early, speeding up companywide exit from coal to 2030
The Minneapolis-based utility plans to add 11,700 MW of wind and solar across its eight-state system.
By Ethan Howland • Nov. 1, 2022 -
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Deep DiveHow the US plans to transform its lithium supply chain
With just 3.6% of global reserves, U.S. access to the critical mineral is vital to the country’s sustainable energy plans.
By Deborah Abrams Kaplan • Nov. 1, 2022 -
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Dominion settles with Walmart, others on potential cost overruns for $9.8B offshore wind project
“Today’s settlement strikes a much better balance between shareholders and ratepayers that enables the project to move forward,” said Will Cleveland, a Southern Environmental Law Center senior attorney.
By Ethan Howland • Oct. 31, 2022 -
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Electric utilities aren’t doing enough to address inequities in today’s power system, advocates say
How are companies, regulators, NGOs and others ensuring that the energy transition is equitable?
By Robert Walton • Oct. 28, 2022 -
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Engie buys 6-GW solar and storage development portfolio from Belltown Power
The deal for projects in PJM, ERCOT and other markets comes as Consolidated Edison, American Electric Power and Duke Energy move to sell their unregulated renewable energy businesses.
By Ethan Howland • Oct. 28, 2022 -
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Deep DiveBringing equity to electricity service through home, power sector and regulatory innovation
Individual homes can be upgraded, community solar can help to lower bills and regulators can broaden the public engagement process to be more inclusive, consumer advocates say.
By Herman K. Trabish • Oct. 27, 2022 -
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National Grid, VEIR collaborating on superconductivity in transmission
Technology that can increase capacity on transmission rights-of-way is highly sought after as electrification increases.
By Stephen Singer • Oct. 26, 2022 -
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Deep DiveThe energy system is ‘inherently racist,’ advocates say. How are utilities responding to calls for greater equity?
Utility commitments to customer equity, energy affordability and equitable access to clean energy resources are becoming more common, but energy justice advocates say companies need to do more.
By Robert Walton • Oct. 26, 2022 -
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5 Walmart suppliers team up on renewable energy buy
Levi Strauss, J.M. Smucker and three others completed the first aggregated power purchase agreement under the retailer’s Project Gigaton, which encourages vendors to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
By Sarah Zimmerman • Oct. 25, 2022
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