Posts from March 16, 2024

• Expanding the bull’s eye of solar development on public lands
  Proposed changes to the US Bureau of Land Management’s Western Solar Plan would clear the way for large solar energy projects to be built across vast tracts of public lands in 11 western states. The proposed amount of land available to the solar industry ranges between 8 acres and 55 million acres, depending on the […]
• Novel technologies for transforming wind turbine and power grid stability control
  Researchers from the University of Birmingham, U.K., are working on novel ways of preventing threats to grid stability that can result in the loss of power to millions of people, equipment damage, and limited power transfer capability.
• US climate law has boosted solar, batteries; hydrogen, other initiatives lag
  The U.S. has doubled the pace of cutting carbon emissions since President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed in 2022, analysts and scientists said, with more than 80 solar, wind and energy storage projects taking advantage of the law's mix of direct payments and tax credits.
• Saudi Investments Spark Surge in Central Asian Renewable Development
  ACWA Power is implementing two wind power plants in Uzbekistan and a 1-gigawatt wind power plant in Kazakhstan, marking a substantial investment in the region's renewable energy capabilities.
• Two-faced solar panels can generate more power at up to 70% less cost
  Researchers have built a new kind of two-faced (bifacial) panel. They used single-walled carbon nanotubes as both front and back electrodes.

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