As the proliferation of grid-scale renewables accelerates, capacity on national grids is diminishing just as quickly, leading to harder to find and ever-costlier connection agreements. Liam Stoker assesses some of the alternative options grid operators are exploring to extortionate grid upgrades.
Aptos Solar Technology and NEP Join Forces to Provide High-Performance AC Solutions
January 13, 2021 06:46 ET | Source: Aptos Solar Technology Aptos Solar Technology Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara, CA, Jan. 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Aptos Solar Technology, a provider of high-efficiency solar module technology, and Northern Electric Power (NEP), a global manufacturer of microinverters, have joined forces to deploy high-performance AC solutions to the U.S. solar market.
The Silicon Valley based companies have entered a collaborative partnership in which the design and engineering of their products are paired for optimal energy production while lowering the balance of system cost and reducing the installation labor time.
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A December study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concludes the United States can fully decarbonize its power sector through the use of existing technologies and that tackling decarbonization through a federal policy framework, rather than individual states setting clean energy goals, can help to significantly lower the costs.
The research found that interstate coordination and an expansion of the nation s transmission system could lower the cost of fully decarbonizing the electrical grid by 2040 by 46%, relative to an approach where states pursue individual goals.
A separate study sponsored by Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG), a coalition of energy companies and renewables groups, concluded that a comprehensive approach to building transmission lines to serve Eastern load centers could could save consumers $100 billion on electric bills by 2050.
India's PV capacity additions fell 38% year on year in the first eight months of fiscal 2020-21 (to the end of November), as pandemic-driven disruptions constrained new project development.From pv magazine
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Editor’s note: This story is part of the Utility Dive Outlook on 2021, a series on the trends that will shape the industry in 2021. For a look at the business trends affecting other industries, see the Dive Outlook on 2021.
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