• Grist: The solar supply chain runs through this flooded North Carolina town
• Utility Dive: PJM aims to fast-track reliability projects in interconnection queue
• Bloomberg: Securing Renewable Energy from Space
• Axios: Rio Tinto buying lithium miner Arcadium for $6.7 billion
• Reuters: Britain sets out funding model for renewable energy storage projects
• PV-Tech: EQT acquires Swedish developer OX2 with view to IPP transition
• Renewable Energy World: As North Carolina still reels from Helene, solar companies are stepping up
• Energy Storage News: Ukraine’s DTEK on ancillary service wins: ‘aFRR is the future’
• Canary Media: Green hydrogen headwinds hit production hub, steel project in Mississippi

Opinion

• PV-Magazine: Over 60% of surveyed Trump voters in Texas said they support solar tax credits

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• PV-Tech: Report: 660 million will lack electricity access by 2030, off-grid solar could provide power for 398 million
• Bloomberg: Energy Transition Must Morph From Tortoise to Hare as 2030 Nears
• UTility Dive: US energy storage deployments jump 86% year-over-year to 10.5 GWh in Q2: ACP/WoodMac
• Axios: Where FEMA’s direct relief money is going
• Reuters: India’s Adani Green units plan to raise up to $1 billion in dollar bonds, bankers say
• Renewable Energy World: ‘The opportunities for us are boundless’ – Utilities survey the possibilities of AI at Itron Inspire 2024
• Energy Storage News: Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners starts construction on 1.1GWh standalone BESS in Chile
• Canary Media: Coal-to-solar developer BrightNight lands $440M investment

Opinion

• PV-Magazine: Three agrivoltaic community solar projects planned for New York

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• Canary Media: Solar farms don’t hurt nearby property values, new research finds
• Axios: Hurricane Milton “explosively” jumps from Cat. 1 to Cat. 5 in a day
• Reuters: Energy transition story rekindles fund interest in metals
• PV-Tech: New Mexico increases community solar programme by 300MW
• Renewable Energy World: ‘We need to redesign the grid from scratch’ – Assessing Texas load growth, CEO suggests starting over
• Energy Storage News: TagEnergy energises UK’s largest transmission-connected battery storage project
• PV-Magazine: SEIA – IRA tax changes will leave energy storage in the cold

Opinion

• Utility Dive: Big Tech is upending the clean energy landscape

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Storms Are Coming. Florida is about to go on a storm spree, or at least the weather forecasters say so. Helene ravaged the west coast and panhandle before leaving devastating flooding in Western North Carolina. This week we get a visit from Milton, including myself with an expected foot of rain and some see another storm next week. It’s wet!

Pay It Forward. Our friends in the Southeast, especially Western North Carolina got crushed by Hurricane Helene. The good folks at the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA) has setup a donation fund to help with those affected. https://energync.org/disaster-relief-fund/ if you have the ability to give.

• Axios: Hurricane Milton: Florida faces another major storm
• PV-Tech: Xcel Energy advances 2024 Resource Plan to add 3.6GW new renewables
• Financial Times: Indian companies move in as US cuts China out of its solar industry
• Utility Dive: DOE selects 3-GW Pattern Energy transmission project linking ERCOT, Southeast for capacity buy
• BLoomberg: North Carolina Quartz Mine Owner Says Helene Damage Was Minimal
• Energy Storage News: European Commission approves support for ‘at least 5.4GWh’ of electricity storage in Poland
• Canary Media: Chart: More and more rooftop solar buyers are adding home batteries
• PV-Magazine: Lithium-ion battery market to top $400 billion in 2035

Opinion

• New York Times: Chasing Down a Trail of Climate Conspiracies

Best, Yann