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In this episode of This Week in Cleantech, we hear from The Financial Times' Martha Muir, who writes that the cost of clean energy PPAs is set to rise 40% to as much as 120% as Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) subsidies wind down. Muir attributes this figure to a developer survey by clean energy marketplace LevelTen Energy. With U.S. electricity demand forecast to grow by 25% to 50% by 2030, the end of IRA clean energy subsidies comes at a precarious time for developers and other industry stakeholders. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/TwVc50Znm52 @FinancialTimes ; @LevelTenEnergy #ThisWeekInCleantech #CleanEnergy #PowerPurchaseAgreements #PPA #InflationReductionAct

Could hydropower credits undermine New York City’s climate law? ow.ly/YrlZ106ATpI #Business #Hydropower #News #PolicyRegulation #Renewables

Aker Solutions wins contract for Norwegian hydropower plant ow.ly/fB7R106ATpH #Business #Hydropower #News #Renewables

Drax invests £2m to preserve iconic Tongland hydro plant ow.ly/A96m106ATpG #DamsCivilStructures #Hydropower #News #Renewables

One of our most-viewed articles of the past week is curated from the Nevada Current. Jeniffer Solis writes that as reservoir levels continue to drop, rural communities in Nevada served by utility providers like the Lincoln County Power District are looking at needing market rate power. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/ovLH50ZmVjB @NevadaCurrent #LakeMead #HooverDam #Hydropower #NevadaEnergy #LincolnCountyPowerDistrict

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You take it for granted | Factor This Brief ow.ly/OK9M106AS2k #Business #Finance #News #ProjectDevelopment #Brief #Renewables

As IRA subsidies wind down, clean energy PPA prices ‘soar’ – This Week in Cleantech ow.ly/40kV106ANsb #Business #Podcasts #PolicyRegulation #Solar #Renewables #ThisWeekinCleantech

National Grid Ventures (NGV), the commercial arm of National Grid, has announced it will invest $1.75 billion for a 35% stake in Joulent, forming a "broad strategic partnership" to develop contracted power and electrical infrastructure solutions for U.S. large load demand. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/rznR50ZmpwO @NGridVentures #NationalGridVentures #EnergyInfrastructure #DataCenterPower #LargeLoadDemand #TDNews

Last month, we did a thing: in partnership with Advanced Energy United, we launched the Factor This Policycast, a podcast dedicated to covering the world of energy policy and regulation. Best practice, supply chains, and mergers and acquisitions aren't the only things shaping the future of energy - lawmakers, industry regulators, and subject matter experts from niches throughout the industry are operating at a high level, crafting the rules, expectations, and processes that govern our industry. With insider industry association commentary from United co-hosts, and expert perspectives from our guests, we break down these actors' decisions, why they're made, and how they affect your business. Dig in to the first episode: 🔗ow.ly/FjPx50ZmlPR @AdvEnergyUnited #FactorThis #Policycast #AdvancedEnergyUnited #EnergyPolicy #UtilityRegulation

Sunrun makes first leap into distributed edge computing with AI compute pilot program ow.ly/WUlo106AM00 #EnergyStorage #GridModernization #News #PowerGrid #SmartGrids #DTECH #DTECHDataCentersandAI #DTECHMidwest #DTECHNE #ReliabilityandResilience

POWERGEN 2027 announces keynote lineup spanning supply chain strategy, grid security and reliability ow.ly/quAl106ALBr #Business #EnergyStorage #News #Solar #WindPower #Renewables

In this case study contributed by Kayla Harris, DCE Solar's Communications & Marketing Manager, we tackle construction on sloped and uneven terrain. At the Old Hill Farm project in Jefferson Valley, NY, Woodfield Renewable Partners selected appropriate racking and foundation systems early in their development process. Installation leading to the successful onlining of the site was performed with DCE's Solar Long Span Ground Screw racking system. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/RepE50Zm3qW #SolarConstruction #UtilityScaleSolar #GroundMountSolar #SolarRacking #RenewableEnergy

New public tool grants customers access to utility reliability data ow.ly/iLJB106AJCH #GridModernization #News #OutageManagement #PowerGrid #DTECHMidwest #ReliabilityandResilience

Our top article of the past week sees the Solar Energy Industries Association launching an interactive map comparing solar development's "limited farmland impact" to the impact of other major land uses. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/PvMl50ZlzTC #SEIA #SolarEnergy #Farmland #LandUse #Agrivoltaics

In a recent episode of This Week in Cleantech, the gang is joined by Heatmap News' Emily Pontecorvo to discuss a new program by Sunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home, to use pre-existing energy infrastructure to the tune of more than 16 gigawatts of virtual power plant capacity to provide supplementary energy to utilities and data center developers. Private individual end users of Sunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home devices have even been paid for the temporary, auxiliary use of energy infrastructure in their homes, setting a win-win-win precedent for the companies, energy industry stakeholders, and ratepayers. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/MBUI50ZlzoU @heatmap_news ; @sunrun ; @Tesla #ThisWeekInCleantech #VirtualPowerPlant #VPP #Sunrun #TeslaEnergy

The growing popularity of small-scale solar in New York state is having a noticeable effect on midday demand for metered electricity, with overall load declining in the state per the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/r1wF50Zlz7e #SolarEnergy #DistributedSolar #EIA #NewYorkEnergy #TDNews

Beaver Island, located near the northernmost end of Lake Michigan and roughly 70 miles from the United States' maritime border with Canada, has roughly 600 permanent residents. Power is provided to the island by underwater cables crossing the bed of Lake Michigan, and outages are common, with one recently having knocked out power to the island for weeks. The University of Michigan is testing kinetic wave energy devices on the island's coast to enhance the reliability of electricity access. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/ZJAv50ZlySy @UMich #WaveEnergy #Microgrids #EnergyInnovation #GridReliability #TDNews

National Grid Ventures doles out $1.75bn for a stake in energy infrastructure company focused on large load demand ow.ly/MmHj106AHC0 #Battery #Business #EnergyStorage #News #ProjectDevelopment #DTECHDataCentersandAI #Renewables