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Electricity Needed to Support Data Centers
- July 31, 2024
- Posted by: Admin
- Category: Developers, Utilities
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US data center power consumption has seen rapid growth driven to support Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and cloud computing. Utilities’ decisions to build new electricity supply to meet future data center energy usage takes careful analysis and contracting. Without proper planning, the risk is real that utilities will overbuild based on early forecasts or incorrect assumptions.
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Investing in Renewables
- June 20, 2023
- Posted by: Admin
- Category: Developers, Funding trends, Utilities
Renewable generating projects are forecasted to grow exponentially over the next decade and beyond. Obtaining transmission for these renewable projects is currently more than challenging. As a result, managing investor expectations and achieving success will take work and substantial coordination with multiple stakeholders. According to the US Department of Energy (“DOE”) Energy Information Agency’s June
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Capitalizing on the Opportunity
- August 12, 2022
- Posted by: Admin
- Category: Developers, Innovation, Purchasing, Utilities
Energy innovation has never been more needed than now. With the expected enactment of the August 2022 Senate Climate Act, officially HR 5376, dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022”, the U.S. has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create a new energy and cleaner climate path forward. The changes will not happen overnight, and the most
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Green Hydrogen Re-Emerges
- February 17, 2022
- Posted by: Admin
- Category: Developers, Innovation
Southern California Gas Company, on February 17, 2022, submitted plans for the feasibility analysis of the Angeles Link Project, which is a large-scale green hydrogen project to bring hydrogen to the LA basin by 2032. The feasibility analysis involves possibly 200-750 miles of hydrogen pipeline infrastructure, 10-20 GW of electrolyzers (reversible fuel cells), 25-35 GW
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Transmission Infrastructure Progress
- February 21, 2022
- Posted by: Admin
- Category: Developers, Utilities
The US electricity transmission infrastructure needs improvement. Economical projects take years to make it through the transmission queues. PJM announced in early February 2022 that it was pausing new interconnections (for 2 years) to work through a back-log that is 500 days for 33% of the proposed new capacity and to allow time to advance
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Upcoming 2020 solar conferences
- January 18, 2020
- Posted by: Admin
- Category: Business plans
As we look ahead to 2020, the schedule for a number of important industry gatherings has been established. AWEA has added solar to their traditional wind line up and the Clean Power show and conference is scheduled for June 1-4th in Denver. AWEA also has an offshore conference October 13-14th in New York City.
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Deciphering the Road Map for PV Solar
- April 5, 2018
- Posted by: Admin
- Category: Developers, Innovation
A notable group of supply side companies (“ITRPV”) has provided recent 2028 predictions for the levelized cost of solar energy (“LCOE”) that are 34% below 2017 levels. Many buyers, project developers and owners seek to understand how future costs of solar will change. To assist in that process, Beacon Energy LLC analyzed the mid-March, 2018
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Early 2018 Energy Storage Developments
- March 14, 2018
- Posted by: Admin
- Category: Company News, Innovation, Purchasing
Battery storage continues to advance in real and projected terms. On March 13, 2018 Volkswagen AG announced a $25 billion purchase of batteries from Samsung SDI Co., LG Chem Ltd, and Contemporary Amperex Technologies Ltd to backstop approximately 3 million electric vehicles scheduled to be produced through the end of 2022. This compares with
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January 2018 Plans
- January 8, 2018
- Posted by: Admin
- Category: Competitive research
Early January is a good time for briefly recapping last year, planning for upcoming events and embracing expected changes. To that end, we wrote an article for World Gen’s December/January issue titled, “The Path Forward” which recaps the recent past and provides a view of the future. A few updates and comments since that article
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Storage economics and forecasts mid-2017
- September 12, 2017
- Posted by: Admin
- Category: Utilities
Storage predictions in the late spring and mid-2017 show strong future growth based on expected economics. Selected NREL, University of Minnesota, Greentech Media, US Federal Regulatory Commission, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance mid-2017 storage reports support robust storage growth in the upcoming decade. Recent NREL Reports After a detailed review of utility tariffs, Clean Energy
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