Texas Coal Plant Will Convert to Solar Plus Storage with Help of Fed Funding

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:51:31 +0000

San Miguel Electric Cooperative Inc. (SMECI), a not-for-profit generation and transmission rural electric cooperative located in Atascosa County, Texas, was awarded more than $1.4 billion through the U.S. Department of […]

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The Carbon Capture Dream Bumps Up Against Reality In Texas

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:25:36 +0000

Carbon capture and sequestration may or may not work but the US taxpayers will foot the bill either way, starting in Texas.

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El Paso Has a Great Challenge for ADAS Systems

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:59:10 +0000

When it comes to developing driver assist systems, autonomous vehicles, or even aiming for self-driving cars, it’s never easy. Even corporate behemoths like GM have been struggling to stay in the game when the challenges got to be too much and incidents on the road led to a loss of … [continued]

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ExxonMobil Planning Large Gas-Fired Plant to Serve Data Centers

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:20:12 +0000

ExxonMobil is preparing to join the power generation business, seeing an opportunity to support the electricity supply for energy-intensive data centers. The company on Dec. 11 said it is designing […]

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Google Invests in Partnership to Develop Energy Assets at Data Center Parks

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:52:09 +0000

Technology companies are looking at various ways to source electricity for energy-intensive data centers. Google on Dec. 10 unveiled a plan to join with several partners in supporting power generation, […]

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Hundreds of New Gas-Fired Power Units Planned as U.S. Gas Output Soars

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 18:26:17 +0000

The latest data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) published Dec. 10 shows five states accounted for more than 70% of record U.S. natural gas production this year and […]

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USA Adds Record Amount of Solar Manufacturing in 4th Quarter — Thanks, IRA

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 04:59:52 +0000

Last week, I wrote about the enormous growth in US manufacturing construction investment that has come from Joe Biden’s strong reshoring and new manufacturing policies (see graph above). Solar technology manufacturing is a part of that and the US Solar Market Insight Q4 2024 report released today by the US … [continued]

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Delaware Judge Invalidates Musk Pay Package For The Second Time

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:56:43 +0000

The pay package for Elon Musk approved in 2018 has been disapproved once again by a Delaware judge, despite strenuous opposition.

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The Great Grid-Scale Battery Boom Comes To The US

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:53:03 +0000

The United States is rapidly installing grid-scale batteries that are helping to prevent power blackouts, known in German as Dunkelflaute, according to The Guardian. From barely any just a few years ago, the US has now installed 20 GW of grid-scale battery storage for its electric grid — equivalent to … [continued]

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Texas Sends A Renewable Energy Love Letter To Massachusetts…And Sweden

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:30:00 +0000

A climate action consortium in Massachusetts deployed renewable energy credits to support a new 208-megawatt solar project in Texas.

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