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We are six months away from PJM and ISO-NE filing their compliance plans for FERC Order 2222. CAISO and NYISO already filed their plans because they didn’t seek an extension. MISO and SPP compliance plans are due in April 2022. If renewable developers want to engage in RTO committees on Order 2222, now would be…

North Star Renewables has secured a $131 million loan to build a new fleet of offshore wind farm support vessels in the UK. The company will build three new Service Operations Vessels (SOVs) to be delivered to the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm on long-term contracts. Allianz Global Investors backed the loan, valued at £96…

Paul N. Edwards, Stanford University Most of America’s 107,000 gas stations can fill several cars every five or 10 minutes at multiple pumps. Not so for electric vehicle chargers – at least not yet. Today the U.S. has around 43,000 public EV charging stations, with about 106,000 outlets. Each outlet can charge only one vehicle…

Offshore wind development offers an answer to California’s reliability problem, and could greatly help the state reach its net-zero goals, according to a new report. The University of Southern California’s Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy report, California’s Offshore Wind Electricity Opportunity, states that offshore wind could provide $1 billion in resource cost savings,…

Contributed by Mike Phillips, CEO and co-founder of Sense The IPCC report on climate change has been called a “code red” for humanity, with its finding that temperatures rose more in the past 50 years than any time over the past 2000 years, and is continuing to rise more rapidly than expected. Scientists say a…

Canada’s largest municipally-owned electric utility has launched a pilot program that allows customers with distributed energy resources (DERs) to participate in an energy marketplace using blockchain technology. Alectra has launched a transactive software platform, GridExchange, to enable customers with solar panels, battery storage, and electric vehicles to participate in a marketplace. Twenty-one households in Ontario…

Broad Reach Power is on a battery buying spree. The Houston-based independent power producer – owner of 13 gigawatts of utility-scale solar and solar projects across four states – entered into an agreement with Sungrow Power Supply Co. to purchase 1,000 MW/1,200 MWh of energy storage technology to build out six standalone battery storage projects…

Mitsubishi Electric announced the acquisition of Smarter Grid Solutions — a UK-based company providing software management for the distributed energy resources market. SGS’ DER management system facilitates the integration of DER into markets and grids, including grid capacity management, interconnection, and energy as a service. “We are very excited to bring SGS into Mitsubishi Electric.…

Trina Solar’s 210 PERC solar cell has achieved 23.56% efficiency, a record for 210 P-type monocrystalline silicon PERC cells, the company said this week. The efficiency rating was independently confirmed by the National Center of Supervision and Inspection on Solar Photovoltaic Product Quality. Read more: Why Heliene is betting on heterojunciton solar cell modules with…

The Dept. of the Interior announced the next steps for a proposed 1,000-megawatt wind project in southern Idaho. The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public input on the Lava Ridge Wind Energy Project, which would double the state’s wind energy production. The project would feature 400 wind turbines and up to seven new substations.…