2023 promises to be another busy year for the U.S. energy transition as stakeholders move to implement new clean energy measures while tackling growing security, reliability, equity and affordability challenges.
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Distributed renewable energy — especially when paired with energy storage — can provide near-term relief to high power prices while improving reliability, per op-ed from Mike Judge at
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Solar and storage company Sunrun has tens of thousands of customers participating in regional virtual power plant programs. The beginning of the “hockey stick” growth curve for VPPs?
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FERC clears a hurdle for Avangrid’s delayed New England Clean Energy Connect line that would deliver hydro power from Canada to Massachusetts.
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“Revisiting all these incentives is imperative at a time of rapidly rising customer power bills,” said.
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2023 promises to be another busy year for the U.S. energy transition as stakeholders move to implement new clean energy measures while tackling growing security, reliability, equity and affordability challenges.
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Proposal to let the New York Power Authority to finance, build and own renewable energy facilities garners mixed responses.
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“Wind and solar resources can provide a wide variety of ancillary services … thereby increasing reliable market operations, lowering overall system costs, and providing MISO more flexibility for emerging market conditions,” said.
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State and federal regulators should bar utilities from spending ratepayer money on politics, the Energy and Policy Institute’s says in an op-ed.
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Uncertainty and opportunity in the Biden administration’s infrastructure and climate bill incentives challenge regulators and utilities to plan smarter.
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Moody’s lowers Tri-State's outlook to negative.
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First Solar plans to bring its annual domestic manufacturing capacity to 10.6 GW by 2025.
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Even with EV incentives and other Inflation Reduction Act provisions, the U.S. will miss 2030 emissions reduction targets, per the International Council on Clean Transportation.
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A 1-GW wind farm could start supplying New England with electricity starting in 2028.
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The teams of Ørsted and Eversource, RWE and National Grid, Invenergy and energyRE, and Equinor and bp submitted joint bids in New York’s offshore wind solicitation.
PG&E intends to submit an NRC application by the end of this year to keep its Diablo Canyon nuclear plant running.
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NextEra Energy plans clean energy expansion amid allegations that the company violated state and federal campaign finance laws.
GE Hitachi, partners plan 300-MW small modular reactor in Ontario.
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Amid human rights and environmental concerns around cobalt, scientists eye alternatives for batteries.
Wind PPA prices fall, solar rises, per latest LevelTen report.
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Allete, Grid United transmission project would more than double the capacity between the Western and Eastern interconnections.
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Hanwha Q Cells has become the most recent solar manufacturer to announce a sizable investment in the U.S. solar supply chain after the 2022 passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, pledging to spend $2.5 billion on expanding.
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Though the Biden administration’s 2050 offshore wind target is 110 GW, the report referenced several nationwide analyses that project substantially more offshore wind will be necessary to cost-effectively decarbonize the U.S. economy by 2050.
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The stories in Utility Dive’s 2023 outlook series provide a high-level view of some of the critical issues and trends expected to drive the power sector in the year ahead.
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is heading into 2023 with a new leader, Acting Chairman Willie Phillips, a vacant seat and a packed agenda that includes transmission planning reform, grid reliability and possible market reforms.
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The number of buildings capable of participating in utility demand response programs while hosting solar generation and energy storage will grow globally at an annual rate of almost 13% from 2022 to 2031, according to new data.
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Tesla deployed 6.5 GWh of storage in 2022, “by far the highest level of deployments we have achieved,” the company said.
“Demand for our storage products remains in excess of our ability to supply,” it said.
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The evolving U.S. power grid faces a host of long-term challenges, including resource adequacy, gas-electric coordination and physical and cyber resilience, according to a panel of experts.
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“It is important that we consider the voices of historically disadvantaged communities in our decisions,” Phillips said during his first open meeting leading the agency.
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EVs as a percent of new vehicle sales have risen from around 2% in 2020 to more than 6% in the third quarter of 2022.
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The Nebraska Public Power District is using federal funding to consider nuclear power for grid reliability and its impact on low-income communities.
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The Toronto-based storage developer will provide 1,600 MWh of energy storage to Central Coast Community Energy.
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OSHA fines $333,560 over alleged workplace violations in accident that killed a Boston worker utilitydive.com/news/eversourc via
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The projects are the result of solicitations conducted after the CPUC approved an 11.5-GW procurement package in 2021.
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2022 ended with a series of physical substation attacks, but the cyber threat remains acute as well.
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FERC approves Transco gas pipeline expansion despite New Jersey BPU study finding no need utilitydive.com/news/ferc-tran
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Texas PUC nears market redesign decision amid criticism performance credit will not spur new generation
Interior Department proposes streamlining offshore wind regulations to reduce costs
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