California’s Solar market is a battery market. Interesting article. It says that battery storage is to be used as long term storage. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/14/californias-solar-market-is-now-a-battery-market/
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2022-03-13 Solar Parks Could Increase Rainfall
Solar parks could help to increase rainfall in Saudi Peninsula. This is interesting – the darker solar arrays change the albedo or sunlight reflectivity. Maybe they’ll have to turn the solar parks into agrivoltaics and plant crops under the solar arrays. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/08/solar-parks-could-help-to-increase-rainfall-in-arid-regions/
2022-03-13 Submersing Modular Raft For Floating Solar
This submersible modular raft for floating photovoltaics reduces the damage that could be caused by storms and harsh weather. R and D by a Dutch consortium. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/08/submersing-modular-raft-for-floating-photovoltaics/
2022-03-12 Largest Electrolyzer Plant Under Construction
World’s largest electrolyzer plant is under construction in Queensland, Australia. It will be a huge green energy manufacturing center: solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, etc. Eventually use 200 GW – yes, GW! Export green hydrogen made by electrolyzers from Plug Power. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/03/11/worlds-largest-electrolyzer-plant-now-under-construction/
2022-03-08 Largest Green Hydrogen Plant In So. Texas
World’s largest green hydrogen plant planned to open in Duval County, So. Texas in 2026. It will be powered by 60 GW of renewable energy and store the hydrogen in underground salt caverns in Piedras Pintas. https://www.inceptivemind.com/ghi-worlds-largest-green-hydrogen-plant-south-texas/23583/
2022-02-24 ILSR – States Community Power Scorecard
ILSR states community power scorecard gives a letter grade to how the states score on community power. Some states score poorly even though they have changed to renewables. Utilities are greedy and don’t the state to allow the DERs – distributed energy resources, AKA net metering. https://ilsr.org/2022-community-power-scorecard/ Also see California NEM 3.0.
2022-02-19 Calif Utilities Must Procure 40+GW Clean Energy By 2032
California lowers electric sector GHG target, directs procurement of more than 40 GW of clean energy resources The chart with the yearly figures shows 40.55 GW total must be procured by 2032. The utilities must procure 25GW clean energy generation and 15GW storage, while meeting strict reliability standards. Some of this will be pumped hydro.
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2022-02-11 Project Links Solar Canopies, Irrigation Canals
This article shows the synergy between solar PV and the use of the canals as the location for solar canopies. They call it agrivoltaics but there is no agriculture or crops. The author said there are three benefits. But the author did not include the added benefit that the canal water keeps the solar panels
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2022-02-09 Debunking Myth That Solar Isn’t Recyclable
So many fearmongers claim that solar panels are not recyclable and will fill up landfills. That myth is codswallop! (BS) https://cleantechnica.com/2022/02/08/fraunhofer-ise-invents-silicon-recycling-process-for-solar-panels/ There is *no reason* why solar panels which have lost 20% of their capacity can’t continue to be used. They still have 80% of their capacity – 250 watts or more – and can
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2022-02-07 Combinations Of Wind, Solar, Storage
“Cost minimized combinations of wind power, solar power and electrochemical storage, powering the grid 99.9% of the time” Abstract, article, .PDF https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775312014759
