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Duke Energy’s SC Net-Metering Replacement Won a Crucial Ally: Rooftop Solar Companies

GreenTechMedia

Few grid policy battles have been fought as bitterly as those surrounding replacements for net-metering, which determines how much rooftop solar customers get paid for power they export to the grid. Utility Duke Energy tossed out the conventional playbook when proposing a net-metering successor for its South Carolina territory.

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World’s Largest Customer-Sited Solar-Storage Plant Planned for Nevada Desert

GreenTechMedia

A colossal Nevada data center will host the largest customer-sited solar-storage project in the world. Data center operator Switch plans to buy power for its record-breaking Citadel facility from an adjacent project developed and owned by Capital Dynamics. ” When the necessary pieces align, Capital Dynamics is ready to build.

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Bochum, Germany to extract geothermal heat from abandoned coal mines

ThinkGeoEnergy

Construction is currently ongoing for new buildings that will be served by a planned geothermal heating project in Bochum, Germany that aims to utilize water from abandoned coal mine shafts for emissions-free heating and cooling. Two wells were drilled – a shallower well to a depth of 340 meters, and a deeper 820-meter well.

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California’s Interconnection Rules Open Doors to Flexible Solar-Storage, Vehicle-to-Grid Charging

GreenTechMedia

California has more distributed energy resources than any other state, pressuring it to find ways to integrate them into the grid. That’s the big change enabled by a Rule 21 revision entitled “conditions that allow distributed energy resources to perform while avoiding upgrades.”

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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How the Climate Conversation Changed in 2021

Planet Pulse

Meaningful progress on climate change in this decade will require significant changes to almost every sector of the global economy, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, finance, and land use. It has sensitive ecological and climatic systems and we have to monitor those systems.” . “We

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Why There Won't Be A 'Nest For Water'.

Varuna

With news yesterday that Google is finally figuring out how to fully integrate Nest products into its hardware suite of products (lovely ad below), I thought it would be a good time to dig into a thesis I have about the water industry. Nest also partnered with solar companies, hardware stores (Lowes/Home Depot) etc.