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Siemens Energy plans US power grids push to tap into IRA boost – EQ Mag

May 26, 2023 Anand Gupta

HAMBURG : Siemens Energy ENR1n.DE is considering setting up production in the United States to help modernise the country’s power grid, keen for a slice of what is expected to be a multitrillion-dollar market following the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The deliberations are part of a broader rethink at the German power conglomerate to expand […]

Mahagenco Issue Tender for 62MW AC CRYSTALLINE GRID INTERACTIVE SOLAR PV POWER PROJECT

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New York grid records highest output from solar power – EQ Mag

May 24, 2023 Anand Gupta

-New York state’s power grid met about 20% of its electricity demand with energy from the sun for one hour last week, marking the highest ever output from solar generation, the grid operator said on Tuesday. A record-setting 3,330 megawatts (MW) of solar power was produced during the noon hour on May 18, the New […]

Tesla may release $25,000 electric car without a steering wheel in 2023

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Tesla offers China-made electric vehicles for sale in Canada – EQ Mag

May 24, 2023 Anand Gupta

Tesla is listing China-made Model 3 and Model Y models for sale in Canada, the company’s website showed on Tuesday, confirming the electric car maker has completed its first shipments to North America from its Shanghai factory. Tesla’s website showed both rear-wheel drive Model Y vehicles and the long-range, all-wheel drive version of the Model […]

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Energy storage farm could replace Hawaii coal-fired power plant – EQ Mag

May 19, 2023 Anand Gupta

HONOLULU : An energy storage farm could replace Hawaii’s last coal-fired power plant that closed in 2022 after 30 years. The AES Corporation coal plant produced up to one-fifth of the electricity on Oahu — the most populous island in the state. Taking it offline meant an end to the 1.5 million metric tons of […]

US president Joe Biden sets an ambitious plan for Solar Energy

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Biden vetoes bid by Congress to reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from SE Asia – EQ Mag

May 18, 2023 Anand Gupta

WASHINGTON : President Joe Biden on Tuesday vetoed a congressional resolution that would have reinstated tariffs on solar panel imports from Southeast Asia, settling for now a long-running dispute over whether to punish China for trade violations that bypass U.S. rules limiting imports of cheap solar panels from Asia. The result of Biden’s veto is […]

Inox Green to acquire majority stake in wind service provider

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Pattern Energy starts operation of 113 MW Sumita Tono Wind facility – EQ Mag

May 13, 2023 Anand Gupta

Pattern Energy Group has completed construction and begun operation at its 113 megawatt (MW) Sumita Tono Wind facility. Sumita Tono Wind facility, in the mountainous area between the municipalities of Tono and Sumita, in Iwate Prefecture, is now harnessing the westerly winds of the Kitakami Mountains to provide clean power for 47,000 households in Japan. […]

Coal remains largest source of carbon dioxide emissions, IEA says

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Coal-fired power fleet in US to halve by 2050, EIA projects – EQ Mag

May 13, 2023 Anand Gupta

The capacity of coal-fired power plants in the United States by 2050 will decline by more than half from 2022 levels, as environmental regulations raise costs and new plants powered by natural gas and renewable energy displace the aging fleet, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Thursday. The Biden administration unveiled a sweeping […]

NTPC commissions additional capacity at Ramagundam Floating Solar Project

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Long popular in Asia, floating solar catches on in US – EQ Mag

May 12, 2023 Anand Gupta

When Joe Seaman-Graves, the city planner for the working class town of Cohoes, New York, Googled the term “floating solar,” he didn’t even know it was a thing. What he did know is that his tiny town needed an affordable way to get electricity and had no extra land. But looking at a map, one […]

Microsoft cuts carbon emissions by 6% in first year

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Microsoft to buy power from nuclear fusion company Helion – EQ Mag

May 12, 2023 Anand Gupta

WASHINGTON : Private U.S. nuclear fusion company Helion Energy will provide Microsoft with electricity in about five years, the companies said on Wednesday, in the first such deal for the power source that fuels the sun but has been elusive on Earth. Government labs and more than 30 companies are racing to generate power from […]