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Florida is #2 State for Electric Car Sales (Probably)

March 15, 2025 admin California, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev sales, Florida, texas, us ev sales

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:21:36 +0000

For whatever reasons (which we can conjecture about at the end), Florida has become #2 in the country for EV sales. California is #1, of course, and has about 5× as many EV registrations as Florida, while #3 Texas is just a bit behind Florida. The most obvious these are … [continued]

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Renewables Set New Records In Texas

March 11, 2025 admin clean power, ercot, policy & politics, Renewables, Solar energy, texas, wind energy

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:48:16 +0000

Renewables in Texas are setting new records on a monthly or even weekly basis, No wonder Republicans want to limit them.

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Powering Texas: How Base Power’s No-Cost Home Batteries Are Revolutionizing Energy Resilience

March 1, 2025 admin base power, batteries, Energy Storage, home battery backup, texas

Credit to Author: Derek Markham| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:25:07 +0000

In response to Texas’ increasing power outages and the demand for reliable home energy solutions, companies like Base Power are revolutionizing the market by offering affordable home battery systems without the hefty upfront costs. This innovative approach not only provides homeowners with backup power during outages but also contributes to … [continued]

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Renewables + Storage Make Billions Of Dollars In Texas

February 6, 2025 admin clean power, INTERVIEWS, Solar energy, solar energy industries association (seia), texas

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:13:55 +0000

When a new Texas renewable energy report came out recently, Zach quickly wrote an article about it. I was in contact with the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and wanted to query the report’s author, Professor Rhodes, from the University of Texas at Austin. Texas is the second largest US … [continued]

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Texas A&M Launches SMR ‘Energy Proving Ground’ with Selection of Four Nuclear Firms

February 4, 2025 admin advanced nuclear, Business, clean energy solutions, data centers, energy proving ground, engineering, ercot power, Fuel, full coverage, news, Nuclear, nuclear energy research, nuclear innovation, power, Power Demand, power grid resilience, r&d, Research and Development, small modular reactors, smr development, Technology, texas, texas a&m rellis, trends

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:48:21 +0000

Texas A&M University System has unveiled four nuclear developers with which it plans to explore building and operating small modular reactor plants (SMRs) at its Texas A&M-RELLIS campus near College […]

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Xcel Says Coal-Fired Texas Plant’s Conversion to Natural Gas Nearly Complete

February 3, 2025 admin climate change, Coal, conversion, Gas, harrington station, natural gas, news, Plant Design, power, texas, xcel, xcel energy

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:51:33 +0000

Xcel Energy said the company’s coal-fired Harrington Generating Station in Amarillo, Texas should fully complete its transition to burning natural gas in May. Harrington, whose three units have 1,018 MW […]

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New Tool In The Clean Energy Toolkit: Dynamic Line Ratings

February 2, 2025 admin clean power, direct line ratings, electricity transmission, federal energy regulatory commission (ferc), grid, power transmission lines, Solar energy, texas, transmission, Transmission Lines, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:51:49 +0000

New direct line ratings technology enables existing transmission lines to deliver more energy — including clean energy — when and where it’s needed.

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Lightsource bp Brings 288-MW Solar Portfolio in Texas Online

February 1, 2025 admin lightsource bp, power, renewable energy, Renewables, second division solar, Solar, starr solar, texas

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2025 16:29:56 +0000

Lightsource bp announced two solar power projects in Texas with a combined 288 MW of generation capacity are now online, pushing the company’s operational fleet in that state to more […]

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Solar, Wind, & Batteries Providing Texas with Tens of Billions of Dollars in Tax Revenue

January 27, 2025 admin clean power, green economy, green jobs, market research, onshore wind farms, renewable energy benefits, research, seia, Solar energy, solar energy benefits, solar energy industries association (seia), solar power plants, texas, texas solar, texas solar energy, texas wind energy, wind energy, wind energy benefits

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 04:58:36 +0000

There’s a growing war on renewable energy, particularly in “red” districts and states in the USA. One of the things that is often bewilderingly forgotten by those attacking renewable energy is the enormous tax revenue (and overall economic benefits) solar, wind, and battery storage projects provide. A new report focused … [continued]

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