Ready For Battery Primetime? We’re still in April and ERCOT is already putting peak notices into effect and California warns of blackouts. How well is your battery performing and what are you most concerned about? I’d love to hear from you and understand what you look at in the morning when running your battery.
Tracker Bonanza. Nextracker opened additional manufacturing line in Pittsburgh, Array Technologies hosted the Secretary of Energy at their factory opening in New Mexico and Nevados expanded capacity in Texas. There’s a drive for new capacity in the tracker market and it’s right here in the USA thanks to the IRA.
- Bloomberg: Texas Grid Issues Notice Ahead of Potential Emergency Next Week
- Utility Dive: MISO capacity prices triple for next summer, spring, partly on power plant retirements
- Axios: AI advances may frustrate U.S. climate goals as electric demand surges
- Renewable Energy World: Nextracker adding 4 GW of capacity with U.S. steel facility expansion
- Solar Power World: Array Technologies breaks ground on second tracker manufacturing site in Albuquerque
- PV-Tech: DNV – China to more than quintuple renewable energy installations by 2050, with solar capacity to reach 5.5TW
- Energy Storage News: US takes ‘significant step forward’ to speed up electricity transmission project permitting
- Canary Media: Chart – Heavy industry is the next big climate problem to tackle
- PV-Magazine: Minnesota sues GoodLeap, Sunlight, Mosaic and Dividend over dealer fees
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Best, Yann