Climate Week Thoughts. It’s climate week in NYC, an event I’ve never attended but it’s always full of news for those of us interested in the headlines. The arguments have changed a bit, early days centered around what’s possible, what technology is ready for primetime and how much subsidy would be available. Today, we’re arguing what date of impact we should target, i.e. shifting the EV requirement from 2030 to 2035 in the UK. Without much debate, I would say that progress has manifested a real transition to electrification. Now, the collective we, need to focus on making it all work within the grid and keep the grid operational. We’ll talk about how NERC feels about some of that next week.
- Axios: In a shift, fossil fuels take center stage at UN Climate Summit
- New York Times: Climate Forward Live Event -Discussing the Threats of a Rapidly Warming Planet
- Bloomberg: The US Wants a Piece of China’s Solar Business
- Utility Dive: NERC wants smaller renewables, batteries to register as bulk-power assets over reliability concerns
- Reuters: Exclusive – Tesla proposes building battery storage factory in India -sources
- PV-Tech: “More lines, more digitalisation, more climate resilience” – Grids must be priority for Europe’s net zero plans
- Renewable Energy World: Biden uses executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps
- Energy Storage News: Lithium supply chain much improved but transformers and other components a headache for BESS industry
- PV-Magazine: HVDC transmission serves mostly wind and hydro power, not solar
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Best, Yann