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Energy Storage
Ameresco will construct a battery energy storage system of up to 50 megawatts to provide California public power utility Silicon Valley Power additional local area capacity for electrical system reliability and flexibility.
Bonds and Financing
Arevon Energy has closed financing on its Vikings solar-plus-storage project in California using tax credit transferability provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Generation
A new white paper from the Electric Power Research Institute aims to provide owner-operators and other stakeholders with a practical guide for the deployment of a nuclear energy facility on or near an existing coal plant.
Distributed Energy Resources
A University of Vermont Solar Research and Training Facility located at the McNeil Generating Station in Burlington, Vt., was energized in late October, Burlington Electric Department reported.
Community Engagement
Texas public power utility New Braunfels Utilities is accepting applications for its NBU University program, set to begin on January 16, 2024.
Reliability
On the evening of October 24, the city of Osawatomie, Kansas, began experiencing troubles at a power plant substation. It was subsequently determined that the substation transformer was damaged and a replacement was needed.
Transmission
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently announced that significant progress has been made on the Smart Path Connect transmission project, a transmission rebuild effort in two key state transmission corridors, led by the New York Power Authority and National Grid.
Distributed Energy Resources
All large-scale solar energy facilities can now be found on a single map thanks to a collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Generation
The average utilization rate for the entire U.S. fleet of combined-cycle natural gas turbine electric power plants has risen as the operating efficiency of new CCGT units has improved, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported on Nov. 20.
Distributed Energy Resources
Environmental attribute credits are effective at supporting investment in and the development of renewable energy resources, according to a paper by researchers in the Clean Energy Institute at the University of California, Irvine.