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Challenging, changing hydropower market addressed in BPA Strategic Plan
In the face of what it calls “challenging industry dynamics and other risks that could otherwise hinder its commercial performance,” the Bonneville Power Administration has released the BPA 2018-2023 Strategic Plan to help it adjust to the changing hydropower market. Source: Renewable Energy
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Is There a More Efficient Way to Generate Clean Energy with Concentrating Solar Power?
Ali Mani, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford, is doing computer simulations to test what could be a more efficient way to use concentrated sunlight as a heat source. Source: Renewable Energy
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Take a Visual Tour of Vermont’s Kingdom Community Wind Project
Source: Renewable Energy
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White House Seeks 72 Percent Cut to Clean Energy Research
The Trump administration is poised to ask Congress for deep budget cuts in the Energy Department’s renewable energy and energy efficiency programs, slashing them by 72 percent overall in fiscal 2019, according to draft budget documents obtained by The Washington Post. Source: Renewable Energy
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New Jersey Gets the Spark It Needs to Move Offshore Wind Forward
New Jersey finally has the impetus it needs to move forward on a plan to develop offshore wind that was placed into law eight years ago. Source: Renewable Energy
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Enel Plans Solar, Wind Power Sales to Miner of Cryptocurrency
Enel SpA, Europe’s largest utility, is in talks to sell power from wind, solar and other renewable energy plants to the Swiss cryptocurrency company Envion AG, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. Source: Renewable Energy
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Ireland and U.S. governments collaborating to deploy wave energy converter in 2018 at WETS in Hawaii
Vigor, based in the state of Oregon on the U.S. northwest coast, will construct the Ocean Energy OE Buoy hydrokinectic wave energy convertor for deployment in 2018 at the U.S. Navy Wave Energy Test Site (WETS). Source: Renewable Energy
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Maximizing Profit with Software that Optimizes the Stacked Values of Distributed Energy Resources
The tools that utilities are using to try to understand the value of distributed energy resources (DERs) such as batteries and solar PV along their grids was a hot topic in all five sessions in the Energy Storage Track at DistrbuTECH 2018. Source: Renewable Energy
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Younicos Equips Hawaii Wind Farm with Energy Storage
Younicos signed an agreement with TerraForm Power to install and commission a 10 MW battery-based energy storage system upgrade at the site of the Kaheawa wind farm on the island of Maui, Hawaii. Source: Renewable Energy
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3@3 on Solar PV: What Will and Won’t Happen as a Result of the Solar Tariffs
Today the focus is completely on the solar tariffs, approved by President Trump on Monday January 22. We’ll discuss what we know will happen now that the U.S. will be adding tariffs to imported solar modules and we’ll discuss what won’t happen as a result of these tariffs. What will pricing look like at the…