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    • Jul 29, 2021

WEEKLY DIGEST

Updated: Sep 23, 2021

June 29, 2021

DOE Announces $42.3 Million and New Industry Partnerships to Decarbonize American Manufacturing


During “Manufacturing Week” DOE Launches New Funding Opportunity and Selects Industry Partners to Pilot Clean, Efficient Technologies in Real-World Conditions


 

California state licensing board votes to allow only

C-10 contractors to install solar and storage projects


In 90 days, the C-46 license holder will no longer be allowed to install a solar and energy storage system in the state of California.



 


SunPower Joins Market For Solar-Fueled EV Charging, Teaming With Wallbox


Tesla helped kick off the market for solar-fueled EV charging, but it's quickly expanding as battery vehicle sales grow.

The auto market’s quick shift to electric vehicles is increasing the need for charging infrastructure. SunPower is working with Spain’s Wallbox to integrate EV chargers into customers’ homes and businesses.


 

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Sunrun Partners with Ford


to Provide Seamless Installation of 80-amp Ford Charge Station Pro and Home Integration System for the All-Electric Ford F-150 Lightning.



 

Booming demand for renewable energy financing could result in tax equity shortage, experts say


Overall demand for renewable energy project financing continues to grow, potentially outstripping financiers' ability to keep up. Utility-scale and residential solar deals are popular with investors.



 

Senate votes to move forward on $1 trillion infrastructure bill


The bill would provide $73 billion for electric power infrastructure upgrades, including new transmission lines to facilitate the expansion of renewable energy. The compromise of major projects which includes $7.5 billion in funding for deployment of electric vehicle chargers along highway corridors.


“The clean power industry is committed and working to help get this important legislation to the President’s desk” said Heather Zichal, CEO of the American Clean Power Association.


 












    • Jul 22, 2021

WEEKLY DIGEST

Updated: Sep 23, 2021

June 22, 2021


Wind Industry Calls on G20 to

Speed Up Renewable Power Growth


Wind energy executives call for more ambitious targets.

Renewable power must expand much faster to reach climate goals.


 

German start-up offers 5.2 kWh AC battery that works without inverter

Sax Power has developed a new residential battery which it describes as a game-changer in the battery technology.

Working entirely without an inverter and has 50% more capacity and service life than conventional batteries, stores direct current and can deliver both alternating current and direct current.



 

Veteran investor Ecosystem Integrity Fund raises $250M amid cleantech funding boom

The early-mover investment fund draws on a decade of experience

to navigate a heady market.

Newcomers are flooding into the clean-energy investing arena, but

Ecosystem Integrity Fund’s new $250 million raise caps off a decade

of studying the space and making bets.

 

PSE&G signs 10-year advanced metering

deal with Landis+Gyr

US utility Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) has partnered with Landis+Gyr for the supply and installation of advanced meters, as well as related infrastructure and technologies in New Jersey.

The deal is part of the utility’s Clean Energy Future programme designed to accelerate the adoption of advanced technologies capable of helping PSE&G to enhance grid management and customer services, and to reduce its carbon intensity.



 


Solar Power World presents the

2021 Top Solar Contractors

Solar Power World the industry’s leading source for technology, development and installation news, presents the list which ranks applicants according to their influence in the U.S. solar industry in 2020.

 



    • Jul 15, 2021

WEEKLY DIGEST

Updated: Sep 23, 2021

June 15, 2021


As Google, Microsoft and others pursue 24x7 clean energy, RMI report shows how they can do it better.


Corporate renewable energy procurements are helping to drive global decarbonization, and matching hourly energy demand with carbon-free power sources can accelerate the transition.

"Our recommendation is to really look at the grid around you"


 

Department Of Energy initiative seeks to drop

long-duration storage cost 90% in a decade.


The Biden administration - power the country with 100% by 2035

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has set a goal to reduce the cost of utility-scale, long-duration energy storage by 90% within a decade to bolster a grid powered by renewable energy. The department will advance the cost-cutting goal by funding research and development at national lab. The goal is the second in the administration's


 

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Energy Storage Grand Challenge


The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Storage Grand Challenge (ESGC) is a comprehensive program to accelerate the development, commercialization, and utilization of next-generation energy storage technologies and sustain American global leadership in energy storage. The Goal : To develop and domestically manufacture energy storage technologies that can meet all marketplace demands by 2030

 

California breaks 1 GW energy storage milestone (and looks to a ‘future’ 1.21 GW moment)


The federal government is the largest energy Energy storage is making its presence known on California’s electricity grid as projected shortfalls widen

and deepen in the coming years.


A new player is taking the stage in the highly charged California electricity market.

Enter lithium-ion energy storage. The world saw this revolution coming years ago,

but momentum has been accelerating ever since the summer of 2019,

when California regulators and utilities first


 

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California poised to order 11,500 MW of new electric capacity, mostly from renewables


The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is set to consider two plans that would order utilities to procure 11,500 MW of new electricity resources to come online between 2023 and 2026, with most of the resources to come from zero-emitting sources. The resources will help the state respond to more extreme weather events.

 

Solar Industry Urges Congress to Fully Fund Energy Storage Shot and Renewable Energy Research


The Biden Administration unveiled details for its fiscal year 2022 budget request for the U.S. Department of Energy. SEIA led a coalition of clean energy organizations in a letter urging congressional leaders to support full funding of this budget request.


 


Investor Confidence in Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Sectors Hits All-Time High

ACORE Releases $1T 2030 Campaign Progress Report and New Survey of Leading Financial Institutions and Developers A new analysis released today by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) finds that confidence among both renewable energy investors and developers is at an all-time high. The report, Expectations for Renewable Energy Finance in 2021-2024, presents the results of a new survey of prominent financial institutions and renewable energy development companies on their confidence in the sector in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

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Expectations for Renewable Energy Finance in 2021-2024

Growing Confidence in the Aftermath of the Pandemic



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