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Renewables + Storage Make Billions Of Dollars In Texas

February 6, 2025 admin clean power, INTERVIEWS, Solar energy, solar energy industries association (seia), texas

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:13:55 +0000

When a new Texas renewable energy report came out recently, Zach quickly wrote an article about it. I was in contact with the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and wanted to query the report’s author, Professor Rhodes, from the University of Texas at Austin. Texas is the second largest US … [continued]

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Texas A&M Launches SMR ‘Energy Proving Ground’ with Selection of Four Nuclear Firms

February 4, 2025 admin advanced nuclear, Business, clean energy solutions, data centers, energy proving ground, engineering, ercot power, Fuel, full coverage, news, Nuclear, nuclear energy research, nuclear innovation, power, Power Demand, power grid resilience, r&d, Research and Development, small modular reactors, smr development, Technology, texas, texas a&m rellis, trends

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:48:21 +0000

Texas A&M University System has unveiled four nuclear developers with which it plans to explore building and operating small modular reactor plants (SMRs) at its Texas A&M-RELLIS campus near College […]

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Xcel Says Coal-Fired Texas Plant’s Conversion to Natural Gas Nearly Complete

February 3, 2025 admin climate change, Coal, conversion, Gas, harrington station, natural gas, news, Plant Design, power, texas, xcel, xcel energy

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:51:33 +0000

Xcel Energy said the company’s coal-fired Harrington Generating Station in Amarillo, Texas should fully complete its transition to burning natural gas in May. Harrington, whose three units have 1,018 MW […]

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New Tool In The Clean Energy Toolkit: Dynamic Line Ratings

February 2, 2025 admin clean power, direct line ratings, electricity transmission, federal energy regulatory commission (ferc), grid, power transmission lines, Solar energy, texas, transmission, Transmission Lines, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:51:49 +0000

New direct line ratings technology enables existing transmission lines to deliver more energy — including clean energy — when and where it’s needed.

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Lightsource bp Brings 288-MW Solar Portfolio in Texas Online

February 1, 2025 admin lightsource bp, power, renewable energy, Renewables, second division solar, Solar, starr solar, texas

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2025 16:29:56 +0000

Lightsource bp announced two solar power projects in Texas with a combined 288 MW of generation capacity are now online, pushing the company’s operational fleet in that state to more […]

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Solar, Wind, & Batteries Providing Texas with Tens of Billions of Dollars in Tax Revenue

January 27, 2025 admin clean power, green economy, green jobs, market research, onshore wind farms, renewable energy benefits, research, seia, Solar energy, solar energy benefits, solar energy industries association (seia), solar power plants, texas, texas solar, texas solar energy, texas wind energy, wind energy, wind energy benefits

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 04:58:36 +0000

There’s a growing war on renewable energy, particularly in “red” districts and states in the USA. One of the things that is often bewilderingly forgotten by those attacking renewable energy is the enormous tax revenue (and overall economic benefits) solar, wind, and battery storage projects provide. A new report focused … [continued]

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The Road To Green Hydrogen Leads Through SAF (E-SAF, That Is)

January 20, 2025 admin airlines, Aviation, biofuels, clean power, clean transport, Denmark, Energy, Europe, Finland, green economy, green hydrogen, honeywell, honeywell uop, Oman, renewable energy, saf, Solar energy, sustainable aircraft fuel, sustainable aviation fuel, texas, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:59:53 +0000

Green hydrogen stakeholders anticipate hitching a ride on the up-and-coming e-SAF field, leveraging renewable electricity.

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Another Day, Another Solar Factory Opens In The US

January 16, 2025 admin boviet solar, clean power, green economy, green jobs, investment, Manufacturing, North Carolina, Oklahoma, solar cells, Solar energy, solar manufacturing, solar module, solar panels, texas, us solar manufacturing, usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:55:18 +0000

Yet another new solar factory is launching in the US, attended by hundreds of new permanent jobs and an estimated $2.9 billion in economic activity for its host state.

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Key Capture Energy Brings Two BESS Projects Online in Texas

January 8, 2025 admin bess, Energy Storage, ercot, key capture energy, news, power, texas

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:28:27 +0000

A New York-based developer, owner, and operator of battery energy storage systems (BESS) said it has begun commercial operation of two 100-MW projects in Texas. Albany-headquartered Key Capture Energy on […]

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