Storage

The Salt Lake City District School board unanimously passed a resolution at a recent meeting, establishing the goal of transitioning the school district to 100% clean electricity by 2030, and off fossil fuels by 2040. The effort was led…

Hawaiian Electric, which has committed itself to 100 percent renewable energy within the next 25 years, announced 16 new solar plus storage or standalone battery projects it has selected for procurement on the islands. HECO already is…

Walcha Energy is to test market interest in what it describes as the biggest renewable energy and storage project in Australia’s main grid – a proposal to build up to 4.5 gigawatt of wind and solar and up to 10 gigawatt hours of battery…

The island state of Hawaii has clearly taken the lead in the global pursuit of long duration battery storage, after its main electric utility revealed this week the details of 16 winning battery storage tenders in a second round of…

FERC Order 1000 opened higher voltage (345 kV and above) for competitive transmission. But not many projects in PJM’s expansion plan are of higher voltage. For renewable energy developers to benefit from storage as a transmission asset,…

Australia’s climate debate has transitioned from obsessing over coal to obsessing over gas. It is the talk of the big end of town. Australia’s energy minister Angus Taylor has always been a big fan of gas (and not a big fan of big fans).…

For the last few monthly updates, I’ve been focusing on the big picture, and have neglected to say anything about many of the 10 Clean Energy Stocks for 2020 since I looked at how the pandemic would likely affect each stock in…

The death of the energy industry as we know it is imminent. The demise of electricity and the transport fuels part of oil and gas, roughly 50%, will be driven by entrepreneurs. I do not believe the energy industry will transform itself…

Advocacy group POWERful Women, in partnership with PwC, this week published the latest ‘state of the nation’ report on gender balance in the UK energy industry. The 2020 annual board statistics show progress in the number of women…

One Step Off The Grid Global solar giant Q Cells has tapped the distributed energy management software platform of Australian start-up SwitchDin, to pair with its recently launched Q.Home solar and storage package, combining PV panels, a…