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What Joe Biden’s Clean Energy Platform Means for the Storage Industry
Could energy storage help bring the U.S. economy back to life? Joe Biden’s new clean energy platform does not explicitly ask that question, but it’s strongly implied.
After taking the counsel of the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force, the…
The Long and Short of It: When Planning Cycles Go From 20 Years to Next-Day
Rahul Kar is general manager and vice president for new energy at AutoGrid.****The renewable energy industry is beginning to outgrow long-term power-purchase agreements (PPAs), and the trend is toward trading renewables on a…
NextEra Energy to Build Its First Green Hydrogen Plant in Florida
NextEra Energy is closing its last coal-fired power unit and investing in its first green hydrogen facility.Through its Florida Power & Light utility, NextEra will propose a $65 million pilot in the Sunshine State that will use a…
Democrats’ Platform Draft: Near-Term Renewables Surge, Net-Zero by 2050
A draft of the Democratic Party's 2020 platform made public this week outlined a buildout of wind and solar energy that would far outpace current projections, calling for the installation of 500 million solar panels in the next five…
Redflow adds virtual power plan functionality to zinc-bromine flow batteries
Australian energy storage company Redflow Limited announced on Wednesday that it was teaming up with Victorian-based smart energy system company carbonTRACK to incorporate Virtual Power Plant functionality into its Redflow zinc-bromine…
Baker Hughes, Snam test hydrogen-methane turbine for gas transmission network
Oilfield services firm Baker Hughes
and Italian energy infrastructure company Snam say they have successfully
completed testing on a first-ever hybrid hydrogen gas turbine for natural gas
transmission systems. Baker Hughes tested its…
European Hydropower Lags as Hydrogen and Batteries Soar
It’s the oldest and the biggest of all the clean energy technologies, but hydro has an uncertain role in Europe’s decarbonization plans.Over the past five years, Europe's base of conventional hydropower and pumped hydro capacity grew at…
ConnectedSolutions results: Massachusetts’ efficiency program for customer batteries
Last year, with technical support from Clean Energy Group (CEG), Massachusetts became the first state to officially incorporate behind-the-meter battery storage into its energy efficiency plan, and utilities began enrolling customers…
Musk says Tesla battery and solar business could be worth more than EVs
Tesla is riding on the coat-tails of a phenomenal valuation at the moment – more than $US300 billion – largely based on investor views about the future of mobility. Those investors are convinced the future will be electric and autonomous,…
DOE releases energy storage challenge; requests stakeholder input
This week, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released the Energy Storage Grand Challenge (ESGC) Draft Roadmap and a Request for Information (RFI), seeking stakeholder input. Announced
in January 2020 by U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan…