Category: U.S.

March 20, 2023

The U.S. Department of Energy has committed $1 billion to develop solar energy in Puerto Rico, to help the island meet its goal of 100% renewables and to add resilience to a system plagued by hurricane damage, poor maintenance and […]

March 14, 2023

The solar power industry seems to be caught in the crosshairs of competing legislative agendas. The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) created incentives to increase solar capacity via tax credits, but the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) limits the […]

March 10, 2023

The US added 20.2 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity in 2022, a 16% decrease from 2021. This was due in large part to an investigation into new anti-circumvention tariffs by the U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as equipment […]

March 10, 2023

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $6 billion in funding to accelerate decarbonization projects in the energy-intensive industrial sector. The industrial sector’s emissions result not just from fuel for heat and power, but also from feedstocks and processes […]

March 9, 2023

New solar installations in the US fell 16% year-over-year to 20.2 GW in 2022 due to policy-driven supply constraints, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) said on Thursday. The decline was mainly blamed on the US Department of Commerce’s investigation […]

March 3, 2023

The Biden administration has pledged another $1.2 billion to help extend the operating life of older or distressed nuclear power plants, with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm saying nuclear power is needed to support the nation’s clean energy goals. The funding, […]

February 24, 2023

In another step by the Biden-Harris administration to grow America’s clean energy economy, the Department of the Interior today is proposing the first-ever offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. The announcement is part of the Administration’s latest […]

February 21, 2023

The Department of Energy (DOE) has broken ground on the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant (G3P3), a novel concentrating solar power (CSP) facility at Sandia National Laboratory that will use sand-like ceramic particles instead of molten salt to produce and […]

February 20, 2023

When Tristan Erion-Lorico started out in the solar industry, a 16.5 MW module order warranted a press release. A lot can change in a decade. Today, such PR fanfare is reserved for the multi-gigawatt factory announcements, which seem to come […]

February 13, 2023

Building renewable energy and transmission projects in the U.S. at the speed and scale the climate crisis requires will require reforms to the way they’re sited and permitted — at the federal, state, and local levels. The current timeframes needed […]

January 31, 2023

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress is hoping to use a legislative tool to roll back an executive order that paused for two years any new tariffs on solar modules imported from Southeast Asia. The group aims to use […]

January 25, 2023

The U.S. has ambitious goals to generate clean energy from offshore wind farms. But inadequate or non-existent transmission infrastructure remains a well-known hurdle to achieving those targets. Proactive and collaborative transmission planning to support offshore wind development in the coming […]

January 20, 2023

Though experts project a record-breaking percentage of U.S. power to come from renewables this year, interconnection timelines remain a barrier to achieving the nation’s clean energy goals. Currently, only 13% of solar, wind, and energy storage projects in approval queues […]

January 3, 2023

It’s no secret that the U.S. power grid needs some work. According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), nearly 70% of the nation’s grid is more than 25 years old. The DOE says the U.S. needs to expand electricity […]

December 15, 2022

On December 7, 2022, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced the results of an offshore wind energy lease sale, or auction, it held the previous day for five lease areas on California’s […]

December 14, 2022

U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), along with Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK), have introduced legislation to help ensure that existing hydroelectric facilities can continue to provide emissions-free, affordable electricity. The Maintaining and Enhancing Hydroelectricity […]

December 13, 2022

The U.S. added 4.6 GW of new solar capacity in the third quarter, a 17% decrease from the same quarter last year. Trade barriers and ongoing supply chain constraints were blamed for slowing America’s clean energy progress. The disruptions are […]

December 6, 2022

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management launched an online auction December 6 marking the first sale of offshore wind development rights for waters off the coast of California. Projects developed in the area could one day power 1.5 […]

November 21, 2022

CSI Energy Storage said it will provide up to 2.6 GWh of battery energy storage capacity for the build-out of energy storage projects managed by UBS Asset Management’s Real Estate & Private Markets business in North America. The projects are […]

November 18, 2022

The North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) warned in its 2022-2023 Winter Reliability Assessment that a large portion of the North American bulk power system is at risk of having insufficient energy supplies during severe winter weather. Fuel supply issues […]