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Plan to use contracts-for-difference model to incentivize projects The UK government has today (Tuesday 17 August) unveiled its long-awaited strategy for developing a hydrogen energy economy. By Kevin Ross, Editor-in-Chief of Enlit Europe and Power Engineering International It comes at a time when there is high scrutiny of the country’s climate policies in the countdown…

A retired New Jersey landfill – once an environmental and financial burden to the community because of its improper closure in the 1980s — will soon become home to the largest solar project of its kind in North America. CEP Renewables began the development of a 25.6 megawatt (dc) solar project in Mount Olive, New…

Originally published at ILSR.org For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, a rebroadcast of episode 127 of the Building Local Power Podcast, host John Farrell speaks with guest Jean Su. Su, an attorney and Director of the Energy Justice Program at the Center for Biological Diversity, represented the Center in an antitrust suit against Arizona utility…

Congress is considering a Clean Electricity Payment Program in the massive reconciliation package. It’s not a Clean Energy Standard, but it can accomplish the same goal, advocates say. Congress is considering landmark legislation to address climate change and the clean energy transition through a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill. Only a simple majority of Democrats…

The U.S. needs 1.03 million new charging stations to support President Biden’s goal of electric vehicles making up 50% of car sales by 2030, new analysis shows. comes as major automakers have made (non-binding) agreements to significantly boost the share of EVs sold to meet pressing climate goals. But current EV charging infrastructure is extremely…

Construction costs for U.S. onshore wind generators declined by 27% from 2013-2019, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But new guidance from Wood Mackenzie signals turbulent costs over the next year and a half. The average construction cost per kilowatt fell from $1,895 in 2013 to $1,391 in 2019. The report acknowledges…

Florida Power & Light crews have installed the first battery modules and more than two-thirds of the containers for its massive Manatee solar-storage hybrid project. The NextEra Energy-owned utility has installed 100 of 132 containers for the FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center. The plant will have 409 MW/900 MWh of capacity, enough to power 329,000…

CS Energy is expanding its footprint in the Southeast with three new solar + storage projects under construction in Florida. Two of the projects are standalone battery energy storage systems with 5.5 MWh and 11.5 MWh in capacity, installed for a leading U.S. utility as part of a technology pilot program “to address growing peak…

On its quest to develop negative carbon footprint projects, Strategic Biofuels claims to have successfully completed a carbon capture and storage test at its diesel fuel plant in Louisiana. The test pilot has completed at the company’s Louisiana Green Fuels Project in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana — the first renewable diesel fuel project to achieve such…

By Nicholas Nhede, Smart Energy International Dominion Energy has announced a new target to convert its vehicle fleet of more than 8,600 units to electric models. The launch of the utility’s ‘Green Fleet’ initiative follows President Joe Biden’s executive order to make 50% of all vehicle sales in the US electric by 2030. The utility’s…