storage
Energy Storage
The California Energy Commission on Dec. 13 approved a $30 million grant to Form Energy to build a long-duration energy storage project that will continuously discharge to the grid for 100 hours. The 5 megawatt/500 megawatt-hour iron-air battery storage project is the largest long-duration energy
hydro
Generation
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service in December released proposed regulations for the clean hydrogen production credit established by the Inflation Reduction Act.
solar
Distributed Energy Resources
The New York Power Authority on Jan. 2 issued a request for information “to understand potential interest and opportunities for NYPA to collaborate with renewable developers, contractors, and companies to develop, own, and operate renewable energy generating projects and storage systems, including solar photovoltaic energy, wind energy, and battery energy storage,” it said.
grid
Electricity Markets
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently approved a request by ISO New England and the New England Power Pool to delay the 19th Forward Capacity Auction by one year.
grid
Reliability
The City Council of College Station, Texas, in December voted unanimously to approve the purchase of single and three-phase transformers.
hydro
Generation
The Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska and Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District recently finalized an agreement on a 10-year power purchase agreement for 42 megawatts of capacity and energy from CNPPID’s Johnson Lake hydro facilities.
grid
Generation
For the first time since 1927, the City of Orangeburg Department of Public Utilities will buy its power from a new provider, the South Carolina public power utility recently reported.
grid
Reliability
The American Public Power Association and other energy impacted trade associations on Jan. 4 sent a letter to key congressional leaders voicing their strong support of the Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill’s inclusion of $1.2 billion in repurposed supplemental funding to bolster domestic transformer manufacturing and other critical grid components.
solar
Generation
Electric company resource capacity, led by solar power capacity additions, will grow rapidly through 2030, with demand driven by industrial consumption and economy-wide electrification, according to the Electric Power Research Institute.
wind
Distributed Energy Resources
Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners on Jan. 3 announced that power from the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project was delivered to the New England grid for the first time.