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Co-Digesting Food Waste With Wastewater Solids To Produce Energy By Rashi Gupta Inspired in part by California’s Senate Bill 1383, which was enacted to reduce organic waste and methane emissions, co-digestion is fulfilling those goals while converting wastewater treatment plants into water resource recovery facilities. With each passing year, the effects of climate change become harder to ignore. The U.S. West Coast has borne the brunt of many such effects: Scientists continue to connect drie...

President Joe Biden is expected to release an infrastructure plan this month that sounds ready-made for microgrids. His goal, he said, is to make infrastructure “more climate resilient” to achieve “cheaper and cleaner” transport. Although microgrids seem like a perfect match for Biden’s plan, it’s uncertain how much they will play into it. Washington is well aware of solar, wind and energy storage, but microgrids, not so much. The technology, as used today, is still relatively new t...

California regulators have approved a microgrid plan directing $200 million to help communities build networks that can supply power through the state’s extended wildfire-prevention blackouts, a task expected to take years to move from planning to completing its first projects.  But private microgrid developers argue that the plan doesn’t go far enough to allow private investment to bolster resilience for this year’s fire season, or to meet the mandate of a 2018 law calling for tariffs ...

Published: 8 Jan 2021, 08:43 By: Edith Hancock SimpliPhis lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery-based BOSS.6 and BOSS.12 energy storage systems have cleared UL9540 certification. Image: SimpliPhi Power. Stem Inc wins incentives for 68MWh of energy storage projects for low-income California communities 5 January 2021: AI specialist energy storage group Stem Inc and its California sales partners have been awarded incentives to deploy 68MWh of energy storage projects for low-income...

Pacific Gas & Electric is asking state regulators to approve another massive round of energy storage procurements, including its first large-scale contract for behind-the-meter batteries to serve grid needs. The six projects announced Wednesday add up to 387 megawatts and 1,548 megawatt-hours of energy storage, including two utility-scale solar-storage systems in Southern California and three standalone battery installations across the state.  But the 27-megawatt/108-megawatt-hour behind-...

The sun is now California’s cheapest power source. This remarkable milestone in the changing energy economy, owed to advances in photovoltaic technology, comes as the curtains fall on the fossil fuel age.  But a complete transition to renewable energy remains many years away. While California’s leaders have set progressive goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and tapping into clean energy, it will take bright minds in the private sector to reach and realize those t...