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The BLM's updated Western Solar Plan will guide solar energy siting and development across 11 western states for the next decade.

BLM’s solar plan: Balancing efficiency, flexibility, & conservation

A foundation for smart siting of solar power on federal public lands

Today’s publication of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (FPEIS) for solar energy development represents a new chapter in renewable energy development on federal public lands. With the FPEIS, the BLM has built on the success of the 2012 Western Solar Plan—under which ~40 new solar projects with generating capacity of 9 GW were permitted through 2022—to lay the foundations for federally managed lands to play an important role in responsibly accelerating the clean energy transition.

In 2012, the BLM published planning documents to support the siting and development of utility scale solar projects across six western states. The plan introduced the concept of “Solar Energy Zones” designed to proactively direct and incentivize development to areas the agency felt best suited for energy production and avoidance of resource conflicts. The same document also introduced the “variance area” concept, which created a more flexible approach for developers to submit proposals for development on nearly 19 million acres (about the area of South Carolina) of lands outside of dedicated zones. And finally, the plan mapped “exclusion areas,” or federal lands where certain types of resource conflicts (like endangered species habitat or lands with wilderness characteristics) meant that development was inappropriate or especially harmful.

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Source: Clean Technica

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The US DOE is partnering with private solar companies to bring electricity to hundreds of the most remote homes on the Navajo Reservation.

DOE partners with private companies to bring solar power to Navajo Reservation

The U.S. Department of Energy is partnering with private solar companies to bring electricity to hundreds of the most remote homes on the Navajo reservation. Here’s KNAU’s Ryan Heinsius.

RYAN HEINSIUS, BYLINE: Nolan and Sarah Huskon just had two new solar panels installed outside their home in the high desert north of Flagstaff. Despite living only a few miles from power lines, it’s their first time with electricity here.

NOLAN HUSKON: Everything’s just right there at your fingertips. Like, just walk into the house and switch a light, and your light’s on. You don’t have to go and start pumping on the (laughter) lantern.

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Reflect Orbital aims to revolutionize solar power by capturing, storing, and trading sunlight, extending its use beyond daylight hours.

California start-up offers night-time solar power

Reflect Orbital, a start-up from California is setting out to revolutionize the capacity of solar power, potentially altering global energy use and storage patterns. The venture involves capturing, storing, and trading sunlight, moving solar power beyond daylight and into the dark.

This new approach could shift our reliance away from non-renewable energies towards more sustainable solar solutions. The stored sunlight could ease the pressure on energy grids after sunset, offering environmental and economic benefits.

The project has been met with enthusiasm among industry insiders and tech enthusiasts. The idea is considered unorthodox, as it uses energy storage technology to collect surplus solar power during the day and use it at night. Trials have dispelled initial skepticism, paving the way for a new approach to renewable energy and the global energy crisis.

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Source: Killer Startups

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A Purdue University team optimized corn yields in solar-powered fields by managing dynamic shadows cast by solar arrays throughout the day.

Validated simulations optimize solar power generation with row-crop agriculture

A Purdue University research team has demonstrated how to optimize yield in corn fields equipped with solar power arrays that throughout the day cast dynamic shadows across growing crops.

The team of eight researchers from Purdue University and Aarhus University in Denmark published their findings July 26, 2024, in Cell Reports Sustainability.

Solar panel arrays—photovoltaics—normally cast permanent shadows on the ground throughout the day. Permanent shadow on a farm field would harm crop growth. The Purdue team tested an agrivoltaics system that towers high above the crops to permit combine harvester operations.

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Source: Tech Xplore

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Eneos Renewable Energy Corp. has entered into a corporate PPA with Amazon to provide renewable energy from a 9.5MW solar power plant in Japan

Amazon signs 9.5MW solar PPA in Japan

Amazon has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar power in Japan.

Eneos Renewable Energy Corporation this month announced it has entered into a corporate PPA with Amazon to provide renewable energy from a 9.5MW solar power plant in Japan.

Eneos will start operations at Kudamatsu Fourth Mega Solar Power Plant, currently under construction in Kudamatsu City, Yamaguchi, by November 2025. It will supply an estimated 20,000MWh of solar energy annually.

Having invested in 20 solar projects in Japan, Amazon is now the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in the country, according to data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

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Source: DCD

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As the deployment of solar energy continues to accelerate, American farmers are finding new opportunities to share the benefits

Making hay (and solar power) while the sun shines

Farmworker Appreciation Day is a celebration of the men and women whose labor feeds America, sustains our global leadership in agricultural exports, and produces many of the fuels and materials that are driving our transition to a clean energy economy. At the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), we’re especially excited by the growing collaboration between American agriculture and our clean energy industries. As the deployment of solar energy continues to accelerate, American farmers are finding new opportunities to share the benefits—and, in some cases, the land.

Renewable energy siting can be a complex process in which both public and private entities weigh the costs and benefits of new renewable energy deployments in a particular location. Developing renewable energy infrastructure that can share space with other forms of production can help resolve certain siting challenges. That is why agrivoltaics, or the co-location of solar energy infrastructure with productive farmland, is such a promising method of renewable energy deployment.

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Source: Clean Technica

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Luna Valley Solar is a 200-megawatt project expected to produce enough electricity to power more than 80,000 homes yearly.

New solar farm in Western Fresno County will power 80,000 homes

The role of Fresno County’s westside in solar energy production continues to expand with the addition of Luna Valley Solar, a 200-megawatt project expected to produce enough electricity to power more than 80,000 homes yearly.

The project’s developer, Clearway Energy Group, announced this week that it had closed $700 million in financing for the Luna Valley project and a 113.5 megawatt storage project in San Bernardino County.

Clearway Energy said in a news release that half of Luna Valley’s solar power and battery storage output has been contracted in a 15-year agreement by San Diego Gas & Electric. The remainder of its solar capacity is under 20-year contracts with Southern California Edison and the Power & Water Resources Pooling Authority, Clearway said.

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Source: GV Wire

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The 12,000-hectare solar installation is expected to generate 17-20 GW (at peak times) and a minimum of 10 GW from its expanse of PV arrays.

World’s largest green energy project to send Australian solar power underwater to Singapore

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Australia’s Northern Territory has granted initial approval for the world’s largest ever green energy and transmission project, which aims to deliver solar power from the land down under all the way to Singapore via a 4,300-kilometre-long undersea cable.

The AAPowerLink project is led by SunCable, an energy company founded in 2018 and focused on harnessing Australia’s sunshine and exporting it to Asia. The latest move by the federal division effectively gives the go-ahead to the firm’s Australia-Asia Power Link (AAPowerLink) to take it towards Final Investment Decision (FID).

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Source: Travel Tomorrow

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Ed Miliband sets new rules on solar panels and approves three giant solar farms as Labour seeks to end years of Tory inaction

Labour’s ‘rooftop revolution’ to deliver solar power to millions of UK homes

Keir Starmer’s Labour government unveils plans for a “rooftop revolution” today that will see millions more homes fitted with solar panels in order to bring down domestic energy bills and tackle the climate crisis.

The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, also took the hugely controversial decision this weekend to approve three massive solar farms in the east of England that had been blocked by Tory ministers.

The three sites alone – Gate Burton in Lincolnshire, Sunnica’s energy farm on the Suffolk-Cambridgeshire border and Mallard Pass on the border between Lincolnshire and Rutland – will deliver about two-thirds of the solar energy installed on rooftops and on the ground in the whole of last year.

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Source: The Guardian

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Solar power units will be installed at 130 primary healthcare facilities in Ukraine, allowing them to significantly reduce electricity costs.

Solar panels to power 130 healthcare facilities in Ukraine

Solar power generation units will be deployed at 130 primary medical care facilities across Ukraine.

This was reported by the Ministry of Health, Ukrinform saw.

It is noted that equipment will be purchased and installed within the framework of the joint project run by the Ukraine’s Ministry of Health and the World Bank “Health Enhancement and Lifesaving, HEAL”.

“Regular enemy attacks on civil infrastructure endanger the full-fledged operation of our healthcare system. That is why we are working to provide medical facilities with opportunities for maximum autonomous work, so that patients can receive all the necessary medical care without interruption and in full. Modern technology allows for strengthening our energy security, including through installing solar power units,” said Minister of Health Viktor Liashko.

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Source: UKRINFORM

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