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The company planning to put a massive jet fuel plant in Lake Preston told investors Thursday that updated guidance from the federal government on carbon credits for biofuels could be a boon to its prospects for success. Englewood, Colorado-based Gevo wants to build a plant in South Dakota to convert ethanol into sustainable jet fuel, with a project cost of $1 billion or more. President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act included billions of dollars to encourage production of such fuel, which currently represents a minuscule share of the overall jet fuel market. Governor Kristi Noem, whose son-in-law a registered lobbyist…

Construction application for a 29.9 MW solar park submitted to the municipal councils. Image: RES British renewable energy company RES has submitted a planning application to Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon ​​Borough Council for a 29.9 MW solar project. Located on land about 1 kilometer south-west of Magheralin, initial plans for the project were presented at a public exhibition in March 2023, allowing people to learn more about the proposal and give RES their views. As a result of the detailed design process, a number of design changes have been made to ensure that the solar farm does not unduly…

On April 8, 2024, the Maryland General Assembly passed Senate Bill 783, the Brighter Tomorrow Act, legislation that would lower the cost of developing solar projects in Maryland and increase the value of solar energy to energy consumers across the state. The bill now heads to the governor’s desk for signature. The Brighter Tomorrow Act is needed to encourage the development of additional solar energy in Maryland as part of the transition to a clean economy and to strengthen the electric grid for all communities. The state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) had already established a nationally leading mandate to deploy…

Installing solar energy on a large scale requires increasingly larger plots to accommodate hectares and even kilometers of PV arrays on one piece of land. With that growing project size comes the responsibility to implement proper stormwater drainage measures to protect the environments and communities in which the projects are built. On any construction project requiring civil work, excavated land that has not been seeded or lacks topsoil is at greater risk of erosion. Stormwater runoff, such as rain or snowmelt, can carry substances such as pollutants and debris that harm local waterways into adjacent areas and municipal sewers. When…

TrinaTracker, a division of China’s Trina Solar, says its new Vanguard 1P tracker system has a maximum length of 140 meters and can be equipped with N-type modules. February 28, 2024 Lior KahanaTrinaTracker has developed an improved version of its Vanguard 1P Smart Tracking solution. The new product has a maximum tracker length of 140 meters and can be equipped with more than 700 W of N-type modules.“The upgraded model features an advanced multi-motor system equipped with a swing drive and a bi-damper system,” the company said in a statement. “The innovative design facilitates the construction of longer trackers while…

Australian battery company Li-S Energy claims to have taken a significant step towards proving the safety of its semi-solid state lithium-sulfur batteries, with the third-generation technology successfully passing a series of nail penetration tests. May 2, 2024 David CarollBy pv magazine AustraliaBrisbane-based Li-S Energy has announced that this is the case GEN3 semi-solid lithium sulfur (Li-S) battery cells have successfully passed a battery of nail penetration tests, with results exceeding the performance standards of the company’s aerospace partners.Li-S said it had conducted a program of nail penetration testing on multi-layer semi-solid state 2.5 Ah lithium-sulfur cells built at its manufacturing…

Swedish CIGS thin-film solar cell manufacturer Midsummer has announced that a four-terminal perovskite CIGS tandem solar cell, developed in collaboration with researchers from Prof. Yang Yang’s laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has an impressive efficiency of 24, has reached 9%.The cell consists of a top layer of wide bandgap perovskite cells and a bottom layer of Midsummer’s CIGS cell. The project demonstrates the feasibility of creating a tandem cell based on a pioneering manufacturing process developed at Midsummer using Midsummer’s flagship CIGS cell manufacturing machine, DUO. The production system can manufacture high-quality CIGS solar cells measuring…

The budget for auction round 6 (AR6) will be the “largest ever”, set at £1.025 billion. Image: British Parliament (flicker). During yesterday’s Spring Budget announcement (March 6), Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt announced that the 2024 budget for the Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction will be set at over £1 billion. Later confirmed by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), the budget for auction round 6 (AR6) will be the “largest ever”, set at £1.025 billion. Funding for AR6 will open on March 27, 2024 and will be split into technology groups called ‘pots’. These are…

The American Clean Power Association (ACP) collaborates with a technology company for sustainable financing Crux to make clean energy tax credit transfers more accessible to the clean energy sector. Starting May 2, ACP’s more than 800 member companies can access reduced transaction fees on the Crux platform. Crux is changing the way clean energy projects are financed in the United States, starting with transactions for the new transferable clean energy tax credits created by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The new transferable tax share market allows, for the first time, clean energy developers and producers to sell their tax credits…

Utility scale distributor RPformerly known as RPCS, will become the exclusive distribution partner of Huaxing Cable USA products to the United States. Huaxing from China offers lines of UL certified conductors, PV wire, MV cable and concentric cable. “Between the policy tailwinds provided by the Inflation Reduction Act and rising tax growth projections, we see an important role for Huaxing in accelerating the energy transition in the United States,” said Jack Yang, CEO of Huaxing. “The end-to-end, value-added approach that RP brings to distributing system balancing solutions makes them the ideal partner to make our products work in utility-scale projects.”…