Rio Tinto signs Australia’s biggest renewable power deal as it works to repower its Gladstone operations

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:35:36 +0000

Rio Tinto has signed Australia’s largest renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) to date to supply its Gladstone operations in Queensland, agreeing to buy the majority of electricity from Windlab’s planned 1.4GW Bungaban wind energy project. The agreement, which follows the announcement last month of a PPA for the Upper Calliope solar … [continued]

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Lightsource bp Completes $348 Million Financing Package for Two Utility-Scale Solar Projects in Texas

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:27:58 +0000

288 megawatts of new solar capacity will generate enough electricity to reliably power 50,000 homes Financing includes a suite of transferability facilities made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act Projects to bring additional energy security and diversification to the Texas electric grid Lightsource bp has successfully closed on a $348 … [continued]

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Baseload Power Doesn’t Make Sense Anymore

Credit to Author: George Harvey| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:18:55 +0000

The compelling complaint about baseload power is that while it did save money in the past, it doesn’t any more. Sun and wind are cheaper than this “cheap” power source, AND backup battery power is cheaper than the backup plants needed for baseload power.

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CCS Redux: Carbon Engineering’s Diesel? Just Put Electricity Into Tesla Semi Instead

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:44:35 +0000

For the same energy inputs you could travel 3 times as far for a 5th the CO2 emissions and well under half the cost in an electric truck.

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US Green Hydrogen Industry Kicks Into High Gear, Politics Or Not

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:24:49 +0000

The US green hydrogen industry gets a leg up from rare bipartisan legislation aimed at cutting costs and increasing production.

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Biden–Harris Administration Announces $5 Million to Strengthen Domestic Manufacturing Capabilities & Support Small-and Medium-Sized Manufacturers

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:53:42 +0000

Funding from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Supports 37 New Small-and Medium-sized Manufacturers to Improve Energy Efficiency, Lower Costs, Increase Productivity, and Reduce Industrial Emissions WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced nearly $5 million from the Industrial Assessment … [continued]

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Empire Wind 1 Awarded Offtake Contract in New York’s 4th Offshore Wind Solicitation Round

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:19:39 +0000

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 project one of the conditional winners in its fourth offshore wind solicitation round. The award is an important milestone for the advancement of the project, which can deliver 810 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy to … [continued]

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Green River Energy Center Quadruples Storage Capacity, Establishing Project as One of the Largest Solar + Storage Systems Under Development in the US

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 05:26:28 +0000

The project has a combined solar and storage capacity of 800-megawatts SALT LAKE CITY — rPlus Energies (“rPlus”), a leading privately held renewable energy developer, announced that its Green River Energy Center project recently amended its power purchase agreement (“PPA”) with PacifiCorp to quadruple the battery storage capacity from 400-megawatt-hours (“MWh”) to … [continued]

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Xpansiv Managed Solutions Tops 100,000 Solar Power Systems, 1.5GW Capacity

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 22:37:56 +0000

NEW YORK, LONDON, SYDNEY — Xpansiv, the leading market infrastructure provider for the global energy transition, has announced its Managed Solution business has surpassed 100,000 solar power systems and 1.5GW of renewable energy capacity, further establishing its position as the largest independent technology platform for managing and selling solar renewable … [continued]

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Adani Green Energy Operationalizes 1,000 MW of the 30,000 MW Khavda Renewable Energy Park

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 05:38:12 +0000

Fastest such greenfield solar capacity addition in India’s renewable sector Construction curve is aligned to the plan of developing 30 GW at Khavda over the next 5 years Plant will be entirely covered with waterless robotic module cleaning systems ~81 billion units will be generated powering over 16 million homes … [continued]

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