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With customer demand already driving the rapid growth of renewable energy, a climate-focused infrastructure bill should focus on transmission and research, according to experts on a Thursday panel hosted by the American Council on Renewable Energy.
Infrastructure is next on the Biden administration agenda, and there s ample political will to increase spending on infrastructure, according to Christina Hayes, vice president of federal regulatory affairs at Berkshire Hathaway Energy. Focusing on decarbonization by 2035, she said, could create thousands of new jobs and other benefits, but requires a focus on shovel ready projects.
Private capital for clean energy and transmission projects is readily available, according to Susan Nickey, executive vice president and chief client officer of climate-focused investment firm Hannon Armstrong. However, she said, cumbersome permitting processes have prevented the construction of needed transmission projects.
315 Messier 106 is a spiral galaxy lying 22 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is a Seyfert galaxy with an active nucleus emitting radio waves and X-rays due to presence of a supermassive black hole actively consuming matter within its core. Violent churning of spiral arms, dust clouds, and sprays of ionized hydrogen can be seen revolving around the nucleus. The the irregular galaxy to its lower left is UGC7356 which lies at a similar distance and the edge on spiral galaxy to its lower right is NGC 4248 which lies 24 million light-years away. Other faint, distant galaxies can be seen scattered around the image.
Luminance â 12x600s â 120 minutes â binned 1x1
RGB â 6x300s â 30 minutes each â binned 2x2
210 minutes total exposure â 3 hours 30 minutes
Imaged on March 3rd, 2021 at the Danville Conservation Area (New Florence, Missouri) with a SBIG ST-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90EDT at f/6.7 603mm.
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KUALA LUMPUR: The Energy Commission has shortlisted 30 bidders, including several listed companies, to develop new large scale solar power projects across the country.
Guyana launches series of tenders for off-grid and hybrid solar
The government of the South American nation is seeking to electrify with solar-plus-storage several remote communities through eight different tenders.The Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) has launched a series of tenders to increase the country s installed power generation capacity across several remote locations. Through a first tender, the GEA wants to select developers to deploy 82 kW of hybrid solar capacity across ten projects in Barima-Waini (Region 1), in the northern part of the country. The projects will include a total of 355 kWh of storage capacity and the ten PV installations will range .