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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
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    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
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    US Capital (c/o Pixabay)

    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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  • Transmission Infrastructure Progress

    • February 21, 2022
    • Posted by: Admin
    • Category: Developers, Utilities
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    Transmission

    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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  • Green Hydrogen Re-Emerges

    • February 17, 2022
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    • Category: Developers, Innovation
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    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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  • Deciphering the Road Map for PV Solar

    • April 5, 2018
    • Posted by: Admin
    • Category: Developers, Innovation
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    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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  • Suniva’s and SolarWorld America’s Joint Trade Complaint

    • May 30, 2017
    • Posted by: Admin
    • Category: Developers
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    Suniva asked for new solar panel tariffs that would push pricing substantially higher and hurt most employed in the US solar industry. Defusing a new potentially damaging solar panel tariff that would likely dramatically slow solar growth will require a lot of care. Would a US research and development fund voluntarily financed by interested parties

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  • Sustainable Energy Investments and Profits: Consistent Goals

    • May 16, 2017
    • Posted by: Admin
    • Category: Company News, Developers
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    Smart impactful investments and business creativity is needed to improve the environment and fund up to $30 trillion globally in infrastructure projects to combat global warming and other environmental challenges. This was an important theme at the HBS Club of Washington event on May 16th on Sustainable Profit: Investment Opportunities in a Changing Climate with

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