Chart: The US battery market is on track for its best year yet
Jul 5, 2024 · With this new data in hand, the prediction looks even more likely to be realized. The country installed more than double the amount of utility-scale storage in Q 1 2024 than it did over the same period a year prior. And overall battery storage installations — meaning not just utility-scale projects, but home and commercial installations as well — were 84 percent higher than in Q 1 …
Chart: US solar installations hit record high, but… | Canary Media
Dec 6, 2024 · That’s because this year’s “ uniquely high” installations were driven by the expiration of a two-year moratorium on tariffs targeting solar panels made in Southeast Asia, S & P wrote. That pause, which ended in June, allowed companies to stockpile cheap panels, but developers were required to use up that inventory by December 3 to avoid paying duties.
Chart: Nearly all new US power plants built in 2024… | Canary Media
Feb 23, 2024 · The latest federal forecast for power plant additions shows solar sweeping with 58 % of all new utility-scale generating capacity this year. In an upset, battery storage will provide the second-most new capacity, with 23 %. Wind delivers a modest 13 %, while the long-delayed final nuclear reactor at Vogtle in Georgia will add 2 % of new capacity, assuming it …
With new draft rules, Vermont’s clean heat standard… | Canary …
Oct 8, 2024 · Vermont passed its Affordable Heat Act in 2023, marking the official start of the state’s transition from heating homes with fossil fuels to using cleaner alternatives instead — a shift that will be crucial to meeting state climate goals.. Last week, Vermont reached a milestone in implementing the law: Its Public Utility Commission (PUC) released draft rules for how the clean heat standard ...
The biggest grid storage project using old batteries… | Canary Media
Nov 21, 2024 · Texas project installed, manufacturing in the works. When we first spoke in late 2022, Stratakos planned to build the Texas plant in 2023 and start shipping the remainder of its battery stockpile in 2024.. The actual installation process turned out to be “ a learning experience,” Stratakos told me last week, meaning it took longer and cost more than initially planned — “ …
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The US is making and deploying more solar panels than ever before
Dec 6, 2024 · According to the report, the U.S. will deploy a total of 40. 5 gigawatts of solar power this year, led by Texas and Florida, with annual volumes hitting at least 43 gigawatts through 2029.. While those annual totals put the U.S. well ahead of top installers India, Germany, and Brazil, America remains a laggardly distant second to China, which will add approximately 334 gigawatts of solar ...
6,000 sheep will soon be grazing on 10,000 acres of… | Canary Media
Aug 16, 2024 · JR Howard of Texas Solar Sheep can’t buy sheep fast enough. He supplies them to solar farms, where their grazing keeps grass short for less than the cost of mowing it. Demand for his animals has skyrocketed over the past few years as …
Sustainable aviation fuel is taking off. What is it, exactly?
Nov 21, 2024 · Late last year, Virgin Atlantic ran a radio spot in the United Kingdom touting a noteworthy environmental achievement: The British airline was about to fly a plane on “ 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel.”. The ad referred to a unique demonstration flight that took place days later on November 28, 2023, in which the company flew a Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to New York City using ...
Coal-to-solar developer BrightNight lands $440M… | Canary Media
Oct 8, 2024 · Renewable energy developer BrightNight just closed a $ 440 million strategic investment from banking giant Goldman Sachs.. The equity investment will help Florida-based BrightNight build out its pipeline of utility-scale solar and energy storage projects, which together represent 31 gigawatts of clean power, the company announced on Monday. Among those projects is the 810-megawatt solar ...