Opinion
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News
1 Bloomberg:
Altman-Backed Oklo Sees Trump Cutting Red Tape for Nuclear Power
2 PV-Tech:
European PV market will ‘consolidate’ amid economic uncertainty
5 PV-Magazine:
Minnesota legislation aims to sunset community solar program
6 Energy Storage News:
Ex-Tesla and Freyr team launch sodium-ion ESS startup for ‘distributed hybridisation’ with solar
7 Canary Media:
Hyundai to make ‘low-carbon’ steel at $6B plant in Louisiana
Opinions:
8 Utility Dive:
New England could connect 9.6 GW of offshore wind without new infrastructure
Have a great day!
Yann
Opinion
Best, Yann
News
1 New York Times:
The Vicious Cycle of Extreme Heat Leading to More Fossil Fuel Use
2 Utility Dive:
Texas Senate passes bill to establish ‘dispatchable’ power credits trading program
3 BLoomberg:
Ardian Agrees to Acquire ICG-Backed Renewable Developer Akuo
4 Axios:
The mystery of Trump's tariff bomb
5 Reuters:
Rule change to drive up clean energy project costs in India's top solar state
6 PV-Tech:
OCI Holdings to build 2GW solar cell plant in Texas
7 Solar Power World:
Sunrun home energy storage owners will help PG&E with load relief again this year
8 Energy Storage News:
US energy storage market saw ‘first year of double-digit deployment’ in 2024
9 PV-Magazine:
Distributed energy resource management enables a new paradigm for grid operators
Opinions:
10 Canary Media:
How Massachusetts is trying to turn EVs into grid batteries
Have a great day!
Yann
March Madness Last Call. Make sure to get involved, last call this morning! It’s back for another year, you can join your fellow SolarWakeup readers in this year’s March Madness bracket challenge. Click here for the Men’s bracket and click here for the Women’s tourney, password is solar, and you guess the bracket. Winner as always gets to write the content for a day.
Opinion
News
1 Axios:
Exclusive - UAE, U.S. partnership to invest to power data centers
2 Bloomberg:
Solar Generation Surge Sends European Power Prices Below Zero
3 Reuters:
Head of Trump's energy loan office departs this week
4 Solar Power World:
US energy storage installation market grows 34% in 2024
5 Utility Dive:
EPA yanks air quality permit for 1.5-GW Atlantic Shores offshore wind project
6 PV-Tech:
Dimension Energy upsizes credit facility to support 3.5GW community solar portfolio
7 Energy Storage News:
Local residents lose legal battle against NextEra over 1GWh BESS in US state of Georgia
8 PV-Magazine:
Supply deal struck between U.S. steel frame maker and Texas solar module manufacturer
Opinions:
9 Canary Media:
Indiana utilities want ratepayers to fork out for small nuclear reactors
Have a great day!
Yann
March Madness. It’s back for another year, you can join your fellow SolarWakeup readers in this year’s March Madness bracket challenge. Click here for the Men’s bracket and click here for the Women’s tourney, password is solar, and you guess the bracket. Winner as always gets to write the content for a day.
Storage And Solar Key. With all of the demand for more energy and the inability to move faster on more transmission while getting towards faster deployment of data centers, we need the energy from solar generation and the grid flexibility from energy storage to keep the US economy moving in the right direction. As folks pointed out, solar and wind, are already a majority of the peak daytime generation in CAISO and ERCOT on many days, plus solar can be built quicker than anything else. The energy storage capacity allows for more expansion and contraction of the grid within the generation that is being built. This all comes together as the key component to unlock economic dominance with American energy.
News
1 Utility Dive:
Southwest Power Pool could need $263B generation investment by 2050
2 New York Times:
The Man Behind the Republican Case for Clean Energy
3 Canary Media:
A new way to power data centers
4 Bloomberg:
Partners in $2.2 Billion Deal to Buy California Gas Plants
5 Axios:
BYD could give EV market its DeepSeek moment
6 Reuters:
Innovators prime creaky US power grid to lift higher loads
7 PV-Tech:
France decreases 2035 solar PV target to 90GW
8 Energy Storage News:
AEMO Services sees ‘four drivers for success’ in Australia’s energy storage tenders
Opinions:
9 PV-Magazine:
Eliminating tax credits would reduce solar and wind deployment by half, says Brattle
Have a great day!
Yann
