MIT Energy Initiative report supports energy storage paired with renewable energy to achieve decarbonized electricity systems. From MITEI (https://energy.mit.edu/news/energy-storage-important-to-creating-affordable-reliable-deeply-decarbonized-electricity-systems/) In deeply decarbonized energy systems utilizing high penetrations of variable renewable energy (VRE), energy storage is needed to keep the lights on and the electricity flowing when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing—whenContinue reading “Energy Storage Important to Creating Affordable, Reliable, Deeply-Decarbonized Electricity Systems”
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Updated Interactive Website Shows Clean Energy’s Expanding Contributions to Rural Texas
Solar and wind projects help diversify local economies, creating new revenue for rural governments, school districts and landowners; but anti-economic development bills threaten that growth. Wind power, solar power, and energy storage projects are providing new economic opportunities for rural Texas counties, bringing needed diversification, economic development, job creation, and multi-generational revenue through a growingContinue reading “Updated Interactive Website Shows Clean Energy’s Expanding Contributions to Rural Texas”
Farms Can Harvest Energy and Food from Same Fields
Energy News Network | November 6, 2019 In 2008, J. David Marley, an engineer who owned a construction firm in Amherst, Mass., had an idea. He had just finished building a large solar array on the rooftop of his downtown office building. The labor and effort to put it up there, he had learned, wasContinue reading “Farms Can Harvest Energy and Food from Same Fields”
SEIA, Wood Mackenzie release 10-year forecast for solar ITC extension
Solar Power World | September 24, 2019 An extension of the solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) would spark $87 billion in new private sector investment and add 113,000 American jobs over baseline estimates by 2030, according to 10-year forecasts released by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables. The forecastsContinue reading “SEIA, Wood Mackenzie release 10-year forecast for solar ITC extension”