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The California Independent System Operator (CAISO), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California Energy Commission (CEC) released their final root cause analysis report on Wednesday, outlining key factors that led the state to trigger rolling outages last summer.
The conclusion largely mirrored preliminary findings, reporting that an extreme heat wave caused by climate change led to excessive demand, while resource planning targets under a changing power supply have not kept up with supply-demand, and some market practices exacerbated the supply issues.
Renewables and storage advocates said the report is evidence California should be more aggressive in investing in long-term energy storage, to ensure power from intermittent resources such as solar can be available during peak hours.
After losing out on an early opportunity to build New York state s biggest battery, the owner of New York City s biggest power plant is taking steps to import renewable electricity generated upstate.
The Ravenswood Generating Station is undergoing a strategic shift to carry out the transition to clean energy called for by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York legislature. The 57-year-old power plant contributes one-fifth of the city s generation capacity and played a crucial role in supplying power when Superstorm Sandy swamped the region. The owners want to maintain that leadership position but make the power differently.
The company that owns Ravenswood rebranded itself Thursday as Rise Light & Power, and it will not be building any new fossil-fueled generation, CEO Clint Plummer told Greentech Media.
The procurement exercise has been planned for the first quarter of the year.North Macedonian state-owned electric company Elektrani na Severna Makedonija (ESM) will tender another 60 MW of PV capacity
Driving around here I see two things that are contradictory. This is a heavy agricultural area but also large amounts of woodland, frequently monoculture pine .
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell-owned German solar battery maker sonnen expects to expand in line with its core market, which is growing fast as people look to move away from fossil fuels.
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Oliver Koch, who became chief executive in September, said sonnen’s batteries, which are mainly aimed at homeowners with solar photovoltaic systems, allowing them to store their power output for later use, held big potential.
“We are growing at the same speed as the overall marketplace. The German market is expected to expand by 30% this year and we will not want to lose any market share,” he said, adding sonnen’s share amounted to 20%,” Koch told Reuters.