Baua Electric

APRIL 10, 2024

Solar is forecast to displace natural gas in the middle of the day and in the summer on the Texas grid, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Texas’s electricity mix of energy sources managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) electricity grid operator changed noticeably in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Benefiting both EV customers and the electric utility industry in the US and Canada, ChargeScape will unlock entirely new value that EVs can provide to the electric grid, while enabling EV customers to earn financial benefits through a variety of managed charging and energy-sharing services.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 26, 2024

Photo: National Grid Renewables National Grid Renewables just brought South Dakota’s largest solar farm online in Pennington County. Wild Springs is a 128-megawatt (MW) solar farm in the Southwest Power Pool, which manages the central US’s electric grid and wholesale power market.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 17, 2024

The US Department of Energy has just released its first-ever roadmap to speed up the connection of more clean energy to the grid. The goal is to finally clear the huge backlog of solar, wind, and battery projects waiting to be built. US Secretary of Energy Jennifer M.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Photo: Paired Power Meet PairTree – a solar-powered canopy that charges EVs off-grid – that’s made by US-based solar charging infrastructure manufacturer Paired Power. What sets it apart is its use of bifacial solar panels. kW units increase energy yield by up to 15% compared to traditional panels. kW solar array.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 18, 2024

Photo: CDC The US Department of Defense agreed to source renewable power from two new solar farms for five military bases in the Carolinas. The Department of Defense (DoD) announced a “first-of-its-kind partnership” with Duke Energy today to power five military installations in North and South Carolina with clean electricity.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Photo: Hydrowing The UK’s Inyanga Marine Energy Group is going to build Southeast Asia’s first tidal energy plant, which will power an off-grid island. Hydrowing is a modular, multi-rotor tidal energy device with a permanent gravity-based structure, and one to three retrievable wings with two to five turbines per wing.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 17, 2024

Image: Tesla Octopus Energy and Tesla’s new partnership means Octopus can install Powerwalls and give its customers with Powerwalls better price tariffs. Octopus Energy is becoming a certified Tesla Powerwall installer in the UK and Spain. We are excited to collaborate with Octopus as we work towards powering the grid of the future.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

Replacing a gasoline-powered ride-hailing vehicle with an electric vehicle can deliver three times the carbon benefits of a personally owned electric vehicle, according to a study by a University of California, Davis, researcher of Uber and Lyft data. The paper is published in the journal Nature Energy. Nat Energy (2020).

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Baua Electric

MAY 2, 2024

An off-grid energy system basically consists of just four key components: 1) a battery to store energy; 2) one or more renewable energy sources (e.g. An off-grid energy system basically consists of just four key components: 1) a battery to store energy; 2) one or more renewable energy sources (e.g.

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Baua Electric

MAY 6, 2024

Photo: Cypress Creek Renewables A 208-megawatt (MW) solar farm with 80 megawatt hours (MWh) of storage has come online west of San Antonio, Texas. Solar + storage developers Cypress Creek Renewables brought Zier Solar + Storage online in Brackettville, Texas, on May 2, 2024. Texas is No 1 in the US for solar capacity.

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Baua Electric

MAY 8, 2024

Photo: Enteligent California-based Enteligent is accepting pre-orders for what it claims is the world’s first DC-to-DC solar-powered EV charger. The solar EV charging tech company launched its product in February 2023 at Intersolar North America in Long Beach, California, and now it’s ready to take pre-orders.

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Baua Electric

MAY 13, 2024

Photo by PhotoMIX Company on Pexels.com US grid operators haven’t been practicing long-term transmission planning, but for the first time, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) just made it mandatory. FERC now requires proactive grid planning FERC oversees interstate electricity transmission.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 4, 2024

Photo: CGTN The world’s largest solar farm, in the desert in northwestern Xinjiang, is now connected to China’s grid. The 5-gigawatt (GW), 200,000-acre solar farm is outside Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital. The solar farm will generate about 6.09 China now boasts the three largest solar farms in the world by capacity.

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Electrek

JULY 15, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Charging an electric vehicle with rooftop solar in the US is cheaper than using grid power or public chargers. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

Photo: Enel North America Power-hungry Texas needs solar and battery storage to help meet demand and balance the grid, so its largest utility-scale storage operator is delivering. Enel North America has started constructing the Ables Springs Solar + Storage Project in Kaufman County, near Dallas.

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2024

Photo by RAZE Solar on Unsplash The US has now officially surpassed 5 million solar installations, a significant landmark in its shift toward clean energy, according to data released by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie. The US solar market was valued at $51 billion in 2023.

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Baua Electric

MAY 28, 2024

Photo by Kelly on Pexels.com Wyoming just approved its largest solar farm – 771 megawatts (MW) of utility-scale solar plus battery storage. Cowboy Solar I will include 400 MW of solar power and 136 MW of battery storage, while Cowboy Solar II will have 371 MW of solar power and 133 MW of battery storage.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 5, 2024

Photo: Cypress Creek Renewables In Q1 2024, the US saw the largest quarter of solar manufacturing growth in its history, bringing its total installed capacity to 200 GW. The report also contains new data showing that the US added over 40 GW of new solar capacity in 2023 – more than initially reported. A record-setting 11.8

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

Photo: Primergy Solar Solar topped coal’s output in Texas for the first time in any month, sending 3.26 million megawatt-hours (MWh) onto the grid vs. coal’s 2.96 In March 2024, solar generation reached 3.26 million MWh, according to the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) hourly grid monitor.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 10, 2024

Photo courtesy of Tom Brewster/BLM California Avangrid (NYSE: AGR), one of the US’s largest clean energy operators, has begun construction on its first solar farm in California. GW of installed capacity of renewables in the US, is building the 57-megawatt (MW) Camino Solar Project in Kern County, California. Get started here. –ad*

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

“Solar on Palm Desert Walmart” by Walmart Corporate is licensed under CC BY 2.0 In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California’s main grid for 69 of the past 75 days. May 21 update: Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering Mark Z.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

Photo: HANSAINVEST Real Assets A 605 megawatt (MW) project in Germany has claimed the title of Europe’s largest solar farm, bumping a PV plant in Spain out of the top spot. The Witznitz Solar Farm near Leipzig, which is not state-subsidized, is owned by German investment firm HANSAINVEST Real Assets. million modules.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

Halfway point Another big milestone for #SouthForkWind as we reach the halfway-finished milestone, with 6 of the 12 turbines complete and supplying #offshorewind energy to the Long Island grid. We’re making progress every day on building a clean energy future for New York. pic.twitter.com/AVn6eQKV6n — Ørsted U.S.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity in 2023, according to a new report, but 2024 will bring challenges to the industry. It’s the first time in 80 years that a renewable electricity source has accounted for over half of annual capacity additions to the grid. GW of new capacity, while nearly 800,000 Americans added solar to their homes.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

EV owners are more likely to add solar panels to their homes, according to a new US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study – here’s why. More of the 2018 survey participants owned or previously owned solar panels than an EV – 9.1%

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2024

Photo: Mortensen The US’s largest solar + battery storage project, Edwards & Sanborn, has come online in Kern County, California. It comprises 875 megawatts (MW) of solar and 3,320 megawatt-hours (MWh) of energy storage. The project sits on both private land and land belonging to Edwards Air Force Base. Get started here. –

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

The largest solar farm in Ohio’s first phase is now fully online and delivering clean electricity to the grid. The 577-megawatt (MW) Fox Squirrel Solar is in Madison County, west of Columbus. The Solar Energy Industries Association ( SEIA ) anticipates a lot of growth in the Buckeye State – it’s currently No.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 29, 2024

Nevada utility NV Energy’s largest battery energy storage system sits on a former coal-fired power plant site and will save customers a lot of money. Energy Vault will maintain the system. It’s a two-hour energy storage system that stores and dispatches excess wind and solar power. Get started here. –ad*

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Photo: China News Service Renewable energy costs in Asia last year were 13% cheaper than coal and are expected to be 32% cheaper by 2030, according to a new study. This is significant because it marks a shift toward making renewables increasingly competitive with coal, a mainstay in APAC’s energy mix.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

Photo: Bygging Uddemann The first of 23 caissons for Princess Elisabeth Island, the world’s first artificial energy island, is nearly complete. The 20,000-ton caissons, which will form the energy island’s outer walls, are being built at Jan De Nul Group and DEME’s construction site in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. Get started here. –ad*

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

Following a successful launch in Texas last year, energy storage leader BLUETTI is expanding its Solar+ program to California, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. This is made possible by harnessing free solar energy and optimizing energy usage, with peak load shifting features in Time of Use areas.”

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Photo: Kyoto University An MIT-led team revealed a “guidebook” for how to tune surface properties of perovskites, a silicon alternative – here’s why that’s huge for solar. Their versatility opens up new avenues for solar installations, from urban buildings to portable, off-grid applications.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 11, 2023

Whenever new technologies are introduced into the power grid, there’s always a chance they could disrupt the system, possibly even leading to blackouts. Finding ways to deal with the impact on the grid caused by incorporating renewable energy has been the focus of Vijay Vittal ’s research for nearly 20 years.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Photo: Xcel Energy Xcel Energy just announced its big solar and wind plans in the US Midwest – here’s the lowdown. It also says it’s on track to achieve its clean energy goals for all the Upper Midwest states it serves – Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Michigan. Xcel Energy also said it will add 2.2

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

shocked climate advocates due to its proposed changes to the state’s rules on residential solar solutions. would charge solar users with a “grid participation charge” of $8/kWh of installed solar. We recognize, as SEIA/Vote Solar states, that the study does not tell the complete story. program.

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