Author Archives: Solar wakeup

This is your SolarWakeup for July 27th, 2023

• Utility Dive: ‘A tripling of electrical output’ – Tesla’s Musk urges power sector to anticipate higher demand
• Bloomberg: European Gas Prices Slump as Storage, Renewables Offset Risks
• Reuters: Energy-hungry Europe to brighten profit at US solar equipment makers
• Energy Storage News: US Department of Energy adds US$30 million funding for long-duration and storage R&D
• Canary Media: Major automakers take on Tesla with US-wide EV charging network
• PV-Magazine: California utility announces launch of distributed energy management system
• PV-Tech: Too big to succeed – different approaches to delivering large-scale solar

Opinion

• Vox: Biden’s $250 billion lure to clean up the dirty legacy of fossil fuels

Best, Yann

This is your SolarWakeup for July 26th, 2023

• Utility Dive: EVs will bring ‘unprecedented’ power demand, but their flexibility can improve grid reliability, utilities say
• PV-Tech: DOE releases US$20 million funding for solar lifecycle and recycling development
• Bloomberg: Why the Texas Power Grid Is Facing Another Crisis
• San Antonio Express News: Without wind and solar power, ERCOT CEO says, this summer’s grid story could be much different
• Axios: Study – Key Atlantic Ocean circulation could shut down by mid-century
• Reuters: Investment firm Low Carbon secures $513 million for renewables projects
• Energy Storage News: California’s SDG&E eyes up ITC for 200MW BESS portfolio
• PV-Magazine: Utility-scale solar and storage project updates across the U.S.

Opinion

• Canary Media: Maine to go all in on offshore wind

Best, Yann

This is your SolarWakeup for July 25th, 2023

• Reuters: Canada’s Heliene plans new US solar panel and cell factory
• PV-Magazine: 2 GW Meyer Burger solar cell factory in Colorado, hints of more coming
• Bloomberg: Chevron Considers Lithium Production in Latest EV Bet by Big Oil
• Wall Street Journal: China Dominates Solar. Does the U.S. Stand a Chance?
• PV-Tech: Japanese corporation Itochu to invest US$2 billion in renewables in North America
• Politico: Biden’s clean energy goals have a union problem
• Energy Storage News: Community energy storage developer NineDot gets US$25 million financing from NYSERDA
• Canary Media: A dispatch from the dawn of the green hydrogen era

Opinion

• Axios: How Trump could slow the U.S. EV transition

Best, Yann

This is your SolarWakeup for July 24th, 2023

• Utility Dive: Investor interest in energy storage back on track after slow first quarter
• Axios: Relentless U.S. heat wave is likely to extend into August
• Reuters: California has enough power during heat wave after Thursday emergency
• PV-Tech: Utility-scale solar to overtake coal in North Carolina’s electricity generation
• Energy Storage News: Spain could eliminate economic curtailment of renewables’ with 15GW of long-duration energy storage
• PV-Magazine: Array Technologies to secure domestically made steel from new mill in Texas

Opinion

• Bloomberg: John Kerry’s China Trip Was Not a Total Climate Loss

Best, Yann