This is your SolarWakeup for March 28th 2025
Happy Birthday. We have a special happy birthday mention from a great SolarWakeup friend, John Murphy, who passes along a happy 50th to operations guru Chris Perron. Let this be the start of the SolarWakeup birthday mentions!
Halfway Leaderboard. Catherine Heigher and Joseph Abel are leading our women’s and men’s brackets as we head to the final stages. Still feeling pretty good about my chances, hopefully breaking the streak of never having won the SolarWakeup bracket challenge.
News
1 Bloomberg:
Shell and BP See Trading Edges in Clean-Energy Stakes
2 Energy Storage News:
‘BESS to help ERCOT manage doubling of demand by 2030’
3 PV-magazine:
Texas Senate passes bill to expedite permits for home solar, battery systems
4 Associated presses:
Renewable energy jumps to new high, powered by China solar boom
5 UTility Dive:
PJM fast-track interconnection process draws 26.6 GW in proposals
6 Reuters:
Shell scraps solar, onshore wind power projects in Brazil
7 PV-Tech:
JinkoSolar ships 99.6GW of modules in 2024, endures operational losses
8 Canary Media:
Span’s new smart electrical panel can plug right into utility meters
Opinions:
9 Axios:
Renewables surged globally in 2024, new data shows
Have a great day!
Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for March 26th 2025
Opinion
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
This is your SolarWakeup for March 25th 2025
Opinion
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
This is your SolarWakeup for March 20th 2025
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.
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
This is your SolarWakeup for March 19th 2025
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.
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
This is your SolarWakeup for March 18th 2025
March Madness. It’s back for another year, you can join your fellow SolarWakeup readers in this years March Madness bracket challenge. Click here, password is solar, and you guess the bracket. Winner as always gets to write the content for a day.
News
1 New York Times:
Want Cheap Power, Fast? Solar and Wind Firms Have a Suggestion.
2 Financial Times:
Dark clouds dull US rooftop solar prospects
3 PV-Magazine:
Rooftop solar saved California ratepayers $1.5 billion last year, finds report
4 Bloomberg:
Energy Chief Praises Research Hub That Trump Once Sought to Ax
5 Utility Dive:
Santee Cooper wants to sell its unfinished reactors. What happens next?
6 Axios:
Ukrainian CEO warns Europe against Russian gas revival
7 Reuters:
China power generation dips in Jan, Feb for only third time since the 1990s
8 PV-Tech:
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners raises €12 billion in fifth renewables fund
9 Energy Storage News:
UK government sets 8-hour minimum for LDES cap-and-floor scheme
10 Canary Media:
Ohio Supreme Court weighs high-stakes solar permitting case
Opinions:
11 Renewable Energy World:
A ‘powered up’ day at CERAWeek
Have a great day!
Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for March 17th 2025
Opinion
News
1 New York Times:
Hope for a Trump Energy Boom Is Marred by Anxiety About Tariffs
2 Bloomberg:
Clean Tech Stocks Rise as Germany Marks €100 Billion for Climate
3 PV-Magazine:
Community solar giants Perch Energy, Arcadia announce merger
4 Utility Dive:
MISO overstates transmission plan benefits by excluding Invenergy project
5 Reuters:
Italy's grid operator Terna to invest 23 billion euros over 10 years
6 PV-Tech:
Terabase raises US$130 million to scale up automated project
8 Renewable Energy World:
One year after winning DTECH’s Initiate startup spotlight, Pearl Street gets acquired
Opinions:
9 Canary Media:
Can clean energy break records despite Trump?
Have a great day!
Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for March 14th 2025
Opinion
News
1 Utility Dive:
IRA credits and energy demand continue to drive renewables investments
2 Reuters:
Exclusive - BP seeks to sell 50% of solar unit to strategic partner, bids due in June, document shows
3 New York Times:
E.P.A. Targets Dozens of Environmental Rules as It Reframes Its Purpose
4 Canary Media:
Trump admin says it’s ‘terminated’ $20B green bank in latest escalation
5 Axios:
Fervo moves toward IPO despite Trump climate storm
6 PV-Tech:
Adapture Renewables acquires 110MW solar-plus-storage project in Colorado
7 Energy Storage News:
Cypress Creek Renewables secures US$133 million for 200MW Texas BESS
Opinions:
8 PV-Magazine:
New York authority approves first Build-Ready program solar project
Have a great day!
Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for March 12th 2025
Opinion
News
1 Seattle Times:
WA ranchers turn to new crop
2 Utility Dive:
DOE will prioritize fossil fuels, but it still expects strong growth from storage, solar, Wright says
3 Bloomberg:
Ontario Premier Says He’ll Cut Power Exports to US If Needed
4 ABC:
Gov. Shapiro ready to invest in cleaner energy for the future
5 Axios:
NASA eliminates chief scientist role, other offices
6 PV-Tech:
France awards 220MW rooftop solar PV in undersubscribed tender
7 Energy Storage News:
Wood Mackenzie
8 PV-Magazine:
Maryland’s energy storage efforts pay off in rural towns’ power crisis
Opinions:
9 Canary Media:
Florida is now a solar superpower. Here’s how it happened.
Have a great day!
Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for March 11th 2025
Opinion
News
1 Politico:
House Republican support grows for keeping clean energy tax breaks
2 Bloomberg:
Top US Utility Says Gas Can Meet Only a Fraction of Power Demand
3 Reuters:
Republicans seek to protect green tax credits in budget bill
4 Renewable Energy World:
NextEra CEO warns against scorning renewable generation amidst long lead times for gas and nuclear development
6 New York Times:
U.S. Energy Secretary Pledges to Reverse Focus on Climate Change
7 UTility Dive:
Hitachi Energy commits $250M to address transformer shortage
8 Energy Storage News:
Cycle limits are major cap on revenues’
9 Canary Media:
Texas broke its solar, wind, and battery records in one spring week
Opinions:
10 PV-Magazine:
California company deploys solar-plus-batteries at no cost to low-income customers
Have a great day!
Yann
