Hanging with the Lab Rats: NREL researchers lay groundwork to accelerate US clean energy transition; Distributed solar to drive global renewable growth 50% by 2024: IEA; Arizona regulator floats new IRP process to reduce reliance on APS, other utility load forecasts; 231 mayors ask Congress for solar tax credit extension
The mayor of San Jose, California, has proposed cities and counties buy Pacific Gas & Electric and turn it into the nation's largest publicly-owned supplier of electricity.
The DOE lab is examining the impacts of "turbulence" on wind turbines as well as how to integrate battery storage systems and hydrogen alongside electric vehicle technologies.
In its latest forecast, the International Energy Agency predicts a 1,200 GW increase in global renewable capacity from 2019 through 2024, with solar accounting for 60% of the rise.
The head of the Arizona Corporation Commission has sketched out a new long-term planning process that he says will result in "more independence and greater stakeholder input."
The bipartisan group is requesting a five-year extension of the solar Investment Tax Credit, which they say could bring 113,000 jobs and $87 billion in economic investment by 2030.
Aggregated flexible load of high EV penetrations will be lucrative in demand response markets, but for now smaller EV demand gives utilities management practice.
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