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Wyoming's highest court rejected a scheme to reduce compensation to small solar net-metering customers. But lawmakers may again try to reform the law, citing contested notions of unfair subsidies. ☀ ⚡ Climate and energy reporter Dustin Bleizeffer has more. 👇 #solarenergy #rooftopsolar #solarpower #utilityindustry #utilities #renewables #renewableenergy #wyoming #smallbusinesses #netmetering #energy

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🗞️ 𝑹𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒑 🗞️ Top stories from the Renewable Industry over the past week 🍃 RWE joins massive US green power plan on land as Trump fears hit offshore prospects ☀️ US solar additions set to have record-breaking year with over 32 GW added in 2024- American Clean Power Association (ACP) has released a report predicting a record-breaking year for the US solar industry, with over 32GW of installations for 2024. 🔌 Indiana Michigan Power, Amazon and Google agree on large load interconnection rules. The agreement comes as the American Electric Power utility expects its peak demand to roughly double to 8 GW by 2030, driven by hyperscaler data center growth. 📈 The U.S. solar market is projected to grow with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 6.6% from 2025 to 2030, reaching 37 GW of annual new installations in the final year of this decade. Total installations in the U.S. are forecast to grow by 16% by 2030 #RenewableEnergy #Windpower #PV #GreenEnergy #SolarPower #USSolar #RenewableIndustry #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #EnergyTransition #DataCenters #EnergyInnovation #NetZero #SolarGrowth #GreenTech #SustainableFuture

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The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) latest report warns that failing to support integration at the point of deployment could jeopardize up to 15% of solar and wind projects by 2030. This shortfall would reduce their combined share of the global electricity mix by 5%. #MarketsPolicy #Policy #iea

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📈 Corporate PPA activity in the ERCOT market has reached 1.8 GW, YTD 2024. Data from the Enerdatics Energy Transition PPA database indicates that ERCOT has seen ~1.8 GW in corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) since the start of 2024, constituting over 60% of the U.S. total. 💡 Tech giant Microsoft leads the way, having secured ~800 MW across three deals. Meanwhile, new entrants such as UnitedHealth Group, Sonoco, and AdventHealth are also stepping up their sustainability efforts. 🏆 Key Suppliers Making Waves: > Regional Leaders: Primergy, Leeward Renewable, Scout Clean Energy > International Players: Orsted, ENGIE 🤝 Positive PPA negotiations in ERCOT are driven by the market's lower land and interconnection costs, which help mitigate higher interest rates and supply chain issues. 🌟 Top Deals to Note: > Microsoft and Primergy Solar: 408 MW from Ash Creek solar project > Hyundai and Matrix Renewables: 147 MW (Hyundai’s first U.S. PPA) > RTX and ENGIE: ~38 MW from Priddy wind project #CorporatePPA #ERCOT #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #Microsoft #Hyundai #RTX #ENGIE #Orsted #Primergy #LeewardRenewable #ScoutCleanEnergy #UnitedHealthGroup #Sonoco #AdventHealth

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Canary Media with an article on how rural electric cooperatives are tapping into the IRA to fund the shift from fossil to renewable generation. "How $7.3B will help rural co-ops build clean power—and close coal plants This Inflation Reduction Act program is offering 16 rural electric co-ops financing to overcome the up-front costs of shifting from dirty coal to clean power. Rural electric cooperatives, which bring electricity to the most sparsely populated parts of the country, are getting their biggest federal investment since the New Deal — and this time around, the money is going to help fight climate change. Last week, the Biden administration announced $7.3 billion in financing for 16 rural co-ops serving about 5 million households across 23 states. The money will be administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which implemented the Rural Electrification Act, the 1936 law that financed the buildout of the grid in more remote areas of the country. It will also be matched by more than $29 billion in private investments with a goal of building more than 10 gigawatts of clean energy. That’s a big jump from the nearly 16 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity co-ops have today." Read more at https://conta.cc/4d4kLmE #solar #energy #solarenergy #renewables #renewableenerg

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From Senator Roberts Uncensored: Sun Cable is a sprawling 12,000-hectare solar complex, which is estimated to deliver 2.5GW of power. This output estimate may be based on a 30% capacity factor, which is generous for solar energy. To put this into perspective, here's what 12,000 hectares looks like over [CITY]. In stark contrast, a coal-fired power station could match this output using nearly 100% of its capacity in just 25 hectares. These facts challenge the narrative that net-zero is the ultimate environmental saviour. In reality, they are the destruction of the environment.

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What a great program from GridLab. Taking the plunge into entrepreneurship can be daunting. Don’t let the fear win out. Support like this in the beginning is a great way to help with the transition. Kudos to GridLab

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DOE proposes ten “national interest” transmission corridors (my latest for PV Magazine USA) Eight of the ten transmission corridors proposed by the U.S. Department of Energy would facilitate transmission between grid regions; one would expand transmission within the Mid-Atlantic’s #PJM grid region; and one would expand transmission in the Northern Plains.

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Hybrid power plants should be able to systematically replace older combustion turbines anywhere in the world. The current push to install new fossil-gas power plants to meet computing demand is incredibly backward looking. The world is changing so fast at this point, if you try to advance while looking backward, you're going to end up flat on your ass, getting trampled by the people passing you.

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Grid analysts challenge Bonneville Power’s pace in adopting advanced conductors--my latest for PV Magazine USA. As the White House encourages utilities to use advanced conductors to help interconnect new renewable generation, the federally-owned utility Bonneville Power is moving slowly to use the high-capacity conductors, analysts said. Mike O'Boyle, Casey Baker, Michelle Solomon #AdvancedConductors

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Numerous renewable energy investment opportunities available in Efficient Markets, via RenovaNexa and Government Resources. Sealed bid listings currently hosted by RenovaNexa: Solarstone Limited - Eastern Colorado Energy Center - 30 MW Solar PV + 60 MW / 180 MWh BESS - Location: Kit Carson County, Colorado - Bidding Closes: September 30, 2024, 4:00 PM (CT) Clean Royalties Generation, LLC - ISO New England - Community Solar Portfolio (3 MW) - Locations: Addison, Caledonia, Chittenden, Washington, Windham, and Windsor Counties, Vermont - Bidding Closes: October 31, 2024, 4:00 PM (CT) Black Mountain Energy Storage II, LLC - ERCOT - Battery Storage Portfolio; 750 MW x 2h Capacity - Locations: Bell, Calhoun, Harris, Lampasas, and Martin Counties, Texas - Bidding Closes: October 31, 2024, 4:00 PM (CT) Government Resources is facilitating a geothermal energy lease sale for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), featuring 66 parcels covering 200,000+ acres in Nevada. This offering ends October 8. Interested in learning more? DM me or visit www.efficientmarkets.com for details. #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy #SolarEnergy #BatteryStorage #GeothermalEnergy #InvestmentOpportunities #EnergyTransition #CleanTech #GreenEnergy

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Basin Energizes New Transmission Line Basin Electric Power Cooperative energized its new Roundup-to-Kummer Ridge transmission line in western North Dakota last week. https://trst.in/xRkLmh

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Adding more baseload power plants to the energy mix can worsen the country’s power supply in the long run, said ICSC’s Energy Transition Advisor Alberto III Dalusung in an interview with ABS-CBN News Channel. This was in response to former Department of Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla’s statement urging the national government to lift the moratorium on coal-fired power plants, citing a need to build more capacity to meet the rising demand as the Philippines continues to struggle with power supply issues. Instead, the Philippines must focus on shifting to a flexible, distributed power system that makes use of various energy sources, including #RenewableEnergy, said Dalusung. “Most of our capacity is baseload coal power plants, they’re a part of our energy mix. But we don’t need more of them; we have too much. We have to take another step back: what kind of new capacities do we really need to address the situation? We need more flexible capacity, and capacity that is distributed along our grid.” Watch: https://lnkd.in/gaBZDh5B Read ICSC’s report on the power outlook for this summer: https://lnkd.in/gdr6Tyu3  #PowerOutlook2024 #EnergySecurityNow

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This is why we can expect to see more low-cost clean energy going into the Midwest and Southeast U.S.

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#ERCOT's recent approval of NPRR1224 means #energystorage asset operators should expect an increase in ECRS deployments, along with a reduction in real time price volatility. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁: Last year’s introduction of ECRS led to an unintentional increase in energy prices for buyers. 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯? 💵 The new product created a new revenue opportunity for energy producers. ⛔ As more assets were bidding into ECRS, their capacity was being held in reserves, and therefore were withheld or unavailable to be dispatched in the real-time energy market. 🙈 To ERCOT it appeared as though supply was not able to meet demand, despite the fact that the capacity was there – this is called artificial scarcity. 📈 Due to the appearance of scarcity, real time prices would increase.  In an effort to quell artificial scarcity, ERCOT is implementing NPRR1224, which enables them to manually release up to 500MW of ECRS capacity from the SCED at a 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗺 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 $𝟳𝟱𝟬/𝗠𝗪𝗵 when: 🚨 Energy demand exceeds the supply dispatched by SCED by 40MW or more ⏰ The imbalance lasts for 10 consecutive minutes 

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