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Arizona-based municipal utility Salt River Project connected its largest battery storage facility into the grid this month. SRP has placed the 25-MW energy storage facility into service at its Bolster Substation, which is adjacent to the gas-fired Agua Fria Generating Station. The fully charged battery site can power about 5,600 homes for close to four…

A new trial in Australia is tackling the regulatory aspect of DER marketplaces hoping to answer the question: How does a utility earn a return on customer-sited assets? When California-based Jesse Morris saw a tweet from the California Independent System Operator (CalISO) asking Californians to conserve energy between 4 PM and 9 PM in order…

The newly formed Green Hydrogen Organisation (GH2) and the International Hydropower Association (IHA) have set out a mutually strengthening vision of how their two sectors can collaborate and contribute to tackling climate change. Green hydrogen is produced through electrolysis of water, using electricity generated by low-carbon power sources such as hydropower, wind, and solar. The…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip During this Climate Week, and the upcoming COP26 climate summit of world leaders, corporations will make pledges to decarbonize and policymakers will up the ante on the urgency to transition away from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy to address threats posed by climate change. But the U.S. needs a grid of the…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip The world’s largest floating wind farm is now operating offshore Scotland. Statkraft, a renewable energy generator owned by the Norwegian state, will buy the entire electrical output of the 48 MW Kincardine Offshore Wind Farm through a power purchase agreement that extends until 2029. The Kincardine Offshore Wind Farm is expected to generate up to…

By Elizabeth Ouzts, Energy News Network Manufacturers, mills, and environmental interests oppose Duke-backed legislation because it hampers the role of regulators and costs ratepayers. It’s not often that paper mills and chemical manufacturers agree with the likes of the Sierra Club. But the debate over controversial energy legislation in North Carolina shows how companies like…

With next week’s FERC meeting on SEEM proposal, the question is back on the table: will FERC approve a group of southeast utilities’ proposal for organizing a market? This fall is the first legislative session across the US and other states where the discussion is around clean energy and what incentives are needed for utilities…

Duke Energy’s newly formed Sustainable Solutions unit, merged from several entities only months ago, is building a 207-MW wind power project in Iowa. Construction on the Ledyard Windpower site in Kossuth County will be Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions’ first renewable energy project in Iowa. The non-regulated commercial brand of Duke was formed with the combination…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip India’s rooftop solar market is booming. India added 521 MW of rooftop solar capacity in the second quarter of 2021, representing an increase of 53% from the previous quarter and 517% year-over-year growth. That’s the latest from Mercom’s India Rooftop Solar Market Report Q2 2021— India’s best quarter for rooftop solar ever. “The…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip While PPA prices are trending upward, LevelTen doesn’t expect demand to soften. According to a survey by the firm, only 12% of solar developers are responding to supply chain pressures by delaying projects. The price of solar and wind power purchase agreements in North America increased 4.3% in the second quarter of 2021,…