Valencia, a city in Spain is starting to use its cemeteries to generate renewable power. The project has been dubbed RIP (Requiem in Power).

This Spanish city plans to turn its cemeteries into the country’s largest urban solar farm

The project has been dubbed RIP, standing for Requiem in Power.

A city in Spain is starting to use its cemeteries to generate renewable power.

Valencia, on the east coast, aims to install thousands of solar panels in graveyards around the city.

The project has been dubbed RIP – standing for Requiem in Power – and was launched this month with the first photovoltaic panels installed.

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Source: Euro News

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SB 1374 removes a burdensome barrier and restores the ability for customers to self-consume the energy they produce on their property.

Senate passes bill to partially restore solar incentives

A bill that would restore the ability of schools, shopping centers, farms and apartment building owners to use the power they generate with their own rooftop solar systems passed in the California State Senate last week and was sent to the Assembly.

Senate Bill (SB) 1374, authored by Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, would reverse a California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) decision last year that prevented numerous types of solar panel owners with multiple meters from using the electricity they generated to offset what they purchased from Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) and other power companies.

The bill was approved 28-7 on May 20.

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Source: The Independent

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California expects to avoid rolling blackouts this summer as new solar plants and large batteries plug into the state’s grid at a rapid clip.

Battery-powered California faces lower blackout risk this summer

California expects to avoid rolling blackouts this summer as new solar plants and large batteries plug into the state’s grid at a rapid clip.

The state’s electricity system has been strained by years of drought, wildfires that knock out transmission lines and record-setting heat waves. But officials forecast Wednesday new resources added to the grid in the last four years would give California ample supplies for typical summer weather.

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Source: Bloomberg

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Austrian startup Anywhere.solar has released a new double-axis tracking system for applications in agrivoltaic projects.

Austrian startup offers double-axis tracking system for agrivoltaics

Austrian startup Anywhere.solar has released a new double-axis tracking system for applications in agrivoltaic projects.

The tracker has an east-west rotation angle of 360 degrees, with an elevation angle of zero to 85 degrees. The module area is 75 m2. Depending on the modules used, PV systems ranging in size from 14 kW to 19 kW can be installed.

The system relies on an aluminum substructure that is anchored in the ground using lightweight construction elements from manufacturer Steelroot. Assembly is possible without heavy construction machinery, according to the manufacturer. At the end of use, the foundations can be completely dismantled.

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Source: PV Magazine

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A trio of hexagonal islands could generate solar electricity to power a process that accelerates coral growth.

Solar-powered floating islands could help to regrow coral reefs

A cluster of floating, solar-powered islands could be used to support coral reef restoration efforts in coastal waters, a team of researchers has proposed.

It is possible to accelerate the recovery of damaged corals, or the growth of new coral colonies, by pumping an electrical current through seawater. This prompts minerals dissolved in the seawater to crystallise on structures, forming limestone rock that is the perfect habitat for young corals.

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Source: NewScientist

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J.P. Morgan made the tax equity investment, comprised of production tax credit and investment tax credit assets available through the IRA.

J.P. Morgan commits $680 million tax equity financing for solar and storage

Renewable energy developer Ørsted announced it has secured a $680 million tax equity financing for a portfolio of solar and storage assets in Texas and Arizona.

The project portfolio includes Eleven Mile Solar Center, a 300 MW solar and 300 MW /1200 MWh storage project in Pinal County, Arizona and Sparta Solar, a 250 MW solar project in Mineral, Texas.

J.P. Morgan made the tax equity investment, comprised of production tax credit (PTC) and investment tax credit (ITC) assets available through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Over 1.8 GW of Ørsted’s 5.7 GW portfolio is now supported by the investment bank.

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Source: PV Magazine

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PepsiCo has completed a new green energy initiative by installing photovoltaic panels at three sites in Romania.

PepsiCo invests USD 2M in photovoltaic panels at Romanian sites

PepsiCo has completed a new green energy initiative by installing photovoltaic panels at three sites in Romania: Dragomirești, Popești-Leordeni and Covasna.

The project, which represents a USD 2.1 million investment, aligns with its PepsiCo Positive (pep+) decarbonisation strategy and aims for net-zero emissions by 2040.

It involves the installation of over 3,000 photovoltaic panels across three facilities, with a total capacity of 1,700 kWp, expected to generate more than 1,300 MWh of clean energy annually.

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Source: Potato Pro

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The Shi family is on the leading edge of a solar boom in China, which has long dominated global solar manufacturing.

Corn, millet and … rooftop solar? Farm family’s newest crop shows China’s solar ascendancy

Shi Mei and her husband earn a decent enough living by growing corn and millet on their small farm in eastern China’s Shandong province. In 2021, they diversified by investing in solar energy — signing a contract to mount some 40 panels on their roof to feed energy to the grid.

Now, the couple get paid for every watt of electricity they generate, harvesting the equivalent of $10,000 per year that Shi can track through an app on her phone.

“When the sun comes out, you make money,” Shi said.

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Source: AP News

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About 60% of customers have included battery energy storage with their rooftop solar installation, up from roughly 10% prior.

California is now a batteries-included rooftop solar market

California transitioned its rooftop solar policy on April 15, 2023, eliminated net energy metering (NEM) and moving toward a net billing tariff (NBT) structure. The change essentially cut the rate paid to customers for exporting their excess solar production to the grid by about 80%. On year later, Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has released a report evaluating changes in the state’s rooftop solar market.

LNBL found that rooftop solar installations in California were roughly equal in 2023 to 2022. However, 80% of the systems installed were NEM 2.0 installations rushing into interconnection queues before the April 15, 2023 deadline to secure the more lucrative rate structure. To date, about 50,000 systems have been interconnected under the new NBT structure, in addition to 200,000 NEM systems interconnected over the same period.

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Source: PV Magazine

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Google signed corporate PPA with CEC and Shizen Energy, marking the first time the company signed such contracts on Japanese soil.

Google signs Japan solar farm deals to power data centers

Google has entered into an arrangement with Japanese renewable energy providers who will build solar farms dedicated to providing electricity to the company’s data centers in Japan, Nikkei has learned.

Google recently signed corporate power purchase agreements with Clean Energy Connect (CEC) and Shizen Energy, marking the first time the company signed such contracts on Japanese soil.

CEC will invest 10 billion yen ($63.9 million) through 2026 to build roughly 800 solar farms that will provide about 70,000 kilowatts of capacity. CEC is a Tokyo joint venture that includes trading house Itochu and Kansai Electric Power as shareholders.

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Source: Nikkei Asia

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