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California has nearly doubled the amount of battery energy storage on its system in two years, hitting 6,000 megawatts of installed capacity, according to the California Energy Commission.
Iowa public power utility Waverly Utilities has entered into an agreement with Sandhills Energy to build a four-megawatt solar generation facility that will produce an estimated five percent of the utility’s electricity.
Concurrent LLC, an independent power producer and energy storage developer, recently unveiled plans for an energy storage project in Halstead, Kansas.
Utilities need to align their reliability planning efforts with those of the Western Region Adequacy Program’s if they want to achieve the program’s goals of achieving reliability with a smaller portfolio through regional load and resource diversity, economies of scale, and reduced planning uncertainty, according to a new report.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently accepted a proposal from ISO New England that will allow energy storage facilities to be planned and operated as transmission-only assets to address system needs identified in a regional system planning process.
The U.S. Department of Energy has released a draft roadmap to address interconnection challenges on the transmission grid and is seeking feedback before releasing a final version.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Oct. 27 announced it has finalized four new Wind Energy Areas in the Gulf of Mexico.
President Biden recently asked Congress to provide an additional $1.6 billion for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program as part of a $56 billion domestic supplemental spending request.