This will also increase the capacity to transmit offshore wind or green energy generated and produced from renewables in Scotland to the demand areas in England as the country transitions to clean energy systems. 🔌💡 constructionreviewonline.com/biggest-proj...
UK based utilities, National Grid and SSEN Transmission have started work on the new Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2)
The underwater energy cable will link transmission networks of Europe to Cyprus in a project costing 1.6 billion pounds, and later stretch to Israel. 🔌💡 www.express.co.uk/news/world/1...
The huge landmark move will help Cyprus keep its energy costs down as it will eventually stop such a heavy reliance on imports.
What's up with cold-climate heat pumps in the US? My colleague Riley Barta and I wrote a little bit about these super-efficient electric heating and cooling machines: How they work, where the tech is heading, and what this implies for power grids. 🔌💡 heatpumpingtechnologies.org/heat-pumping...
The Role of Cold Climate Heat Pumps in Decarbonization The decarbonization of heating by replacing...
Are there any energy lawyers on here with guesses on when FERC will respond to SPP's Waiver Request (to delay the 2024 interconnection cluster start until ~Sep 2025)? Comment period on SPP's request closed 9/13, and SPP's requested a response by 10/31, but I really hope something comes sooner... 🔌💡
AAPowerLink is expected to generate an output of 6.4 gigawatts (GW), about 4GW of which are destined for Darwin and its surroundings, with 2GW to be transported by cable to the distant city-state at the southern tip of the Malay peninsula. 🔌💡 bigthink.com/strange-maps...
Australia is aiming to become a solar-power superpower. AAPowerLink, greenlit by the Australian government, is a step in that direction.
Case in point: 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/pjm-cap...
A switch in how PJM measures power plant availability, one of several market issues flagged by Monitoring Analytics, increased capacity costs by $4.4 billion compared to its previous approach.
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For-profit utility companies have the privilege of a publicly-granted monopoly and yet expect to keep their political lobbying (of the folks that determine their profits!) a secret. Just more #CrazyByDesign features of a monopoly utility system.
Xcel Energy and other Colorado utilities want state regulators to allow them to keep detailed information about political spending secret.
Market reform is another critical piece of the transition to clean energy, which is non-dispatchable and often needs to be traded from regions of surplus to areas of high demand. This needs to be simple and pain-free.🔌💡
“We believe our EVs resonate because we have prioritized great design, practical technology, affordability, and a commitment to an electric future,” Olabisi Boyle, senior vp of product planning and mobility strategy at Hyundai Motor North America, told me. 🔌💡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele...
While many automakers are scaling back their EV aspirations, Hyundai Motor Group’s brands are building momentum. It all comes down to the fundamentals.
Uncertainty surrounding federal tax credit rules has left the clean hydrogen industry stuck in neutral, but experts say the delay is providing much-needed time to figure out the best uses for the fuel. 🔌💡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/hyd...
Energy experts say U.S. policy must direct money to industries that really need clean hydrogen — and away from those that are better off using clean…