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Month: October 2022

Quinone flow battery for grid-scale renewables storage now close to commercial viability

Startup Quino Energy has raised more than $7.8 million to scale up its quinone redox flow battery technology. Harvard University and University of Cambridge researchers came up with the initial research for the battery design. October 20, 2022 U.S. startup Quino Energy, a spinoff of Harvard University, said it recently raised $3.3 million from a …

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Sunrise brief: Proposed regional clean hydrogen hubs to compete for $7 billion in DOE funding

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CPUC Accepting Grant Applications To Help Bridge the Educational Digital Divide

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in its ongoing commitment to increase broadband adoption statewide, is accepting applications for its Digital Divide Grant Program, which will provide four grants of up to $250,000 each. Eligible projects will serve a beneficiary school located in an urban or rural low-income small school district. Beneficiary schools must have …

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Solar panel companies demand refund on Trump’s bifacial module tariffs

The tail-end of the Trump-era Sec. 201 tariffs on imported solar panels was chaotic for everyone. Originally enacted in 2018, 30% tariffs were placed on crystalline silicon cells and modules being imported into the United States. Imported bifacial panels were excluded from the tariffs in June 2019 due to there being no significant domestic manufacturing …

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Renewable PPA price relief from the Inflation Reduction Act may take time

LevelTen Energy’s Q3 report shows U.S. solar and wind offer prices rose 9.6% in-quarter, and current market forces may continue this trend for some time. October 19, 2022 Energy costs are on the rise, and this trend applies to renewable energy as well. In its Q3 Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) Price Index Report, LevelTen Energy …

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SOLV Energy partners with Swap Robotics to tackle thick vegetation on solar sites

SOLV Energy announced during the TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 Conference in San Francisco that it has invested in Swap Robotics. Swap Robotics is an autonomous robotics company that provides 100% electric vegetation management services for utility-scale solar PV facilities. Swap Robotics’ autonomous vegetation management solution is one of the first products to be specifically designed and …

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Standard Solar acquires Rhode Island community solar portfolio from Trina Solar

Standard Solar is expanding its community solar portfolio in Rhode Island with the acquisition of a combined 6.2 MW of projects. The two ground-mount community solar projects – West Main 1 and West Main 2 – developed by Trina ISBU, a business unit of Trina Solar, are located in Portsmouth. All the power generated will …

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Proposed regional clean hydrogen hubs to compete for $7 billion in DOE funding

Several teams plan to propose regional hubs in which large-scale clean hydrogen production would be paired with industrial and other end-uses for hydrogen. DOE gave examples of technologies that could meet its draft standard for “clean” hydrogen. October 19, 2022 Teams across the United States plan to compete for $7 billion in U.S Department of …

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Entergy chooses GridUnity software to streamline distributed energy interconnection process

GridUnity announced that Entergy Services has selected the company’s cloud-based Interconnection Lifecycle Management software product to streamline the interconnection process for distributed energy resources. Entergy delivers electricity to approximately 3 million customers through five operating companies in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. GridUnity’s platform was selected to simplify and accelerate the process of adding distributed …

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11-site New York solar portfolio designed by Castillo Engineering, Solar Generation

A 75 MW portfolio of 11 community solar projects in New York is coming online via engineering, construction and procurement (EPC) firms Solar Generation and Castillo Engineering (electrical design and engineering). The majority of the projects are currently under construction and will be completed throughout the remainder of 2022 and 2023. “Solar Generation is a …

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