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US Bans Forced Labor related solar panels coming from China
Large-Scale Simulations Show U.S. Can Get Close to 100% Renewable Generation Cost-Effectively
The roof is on at Tesla Giga-Austin
Clean Energy Legislation: Oregon working on clean energy legislation - Illinois stalls 
And, hey, how about a tax credit for the solar panel manufacturing supply chain in the USA?

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Today on the Clean Power Hour (Ep.49): 

US Bans Forced Labor involved solar products...all U.S. ports of entry have been instructed to immediately begin detaining shipments that contain silica-based products made by Hoshine or materials and goods derived from or produced using those silica-based products'
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/24/fact-sheet-new-u-s-government-actions-on-forced-labor-in-xinjiang/

Large-Scale Simulations Show U.S. Can Get Close to 100% Renewable Generation Cost-Effectively
'least-cost RE buildout 57%...CO2 abatement costs of 80%, 90%, 95%, and 100% RE are $25, $33, $40, and $61/ton, respectively, with system costs growing from $30 to $36/MWh at 95% (achieved in 2040) and $39/MWh at 100%. 99% to 100% is $930/ton, driven by firm RE capacity.'
https://www.nrel.gov/news/program/2021/the-challenge-of-the-last-few-percent-quantifying-the-costs-and-emissions-benefits-of-100-renewables.html 
Original pub: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435121002464?dgcid=author 

Austin Gigafactory Update - been too long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLMtvh6Vhlg

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1408103224817639432

Project of the Week - 6.7 MW Rooftop Array in MA
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/06/6-7-mw-solar-project-at-medline-industries-will-likely-be-largest-rooftop-array-in-massachusetts/ 

Oregon bill targets 100% clean power by 2040, with labor and environmental justice on board
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/oregon-bill-adds-labor-and-environmental-justice-provisions-to-100-clean-energy-by-2040-mandate/ 


Did the USA hit 50% co2 free kWhs last month? Find out in a month...
https://commercialsolarguy.com/half-of-us-electricity-co2-free-in-may/

Solar manufacturing tax credit:
*modules - 11¢ times capacity
*cell - 4¢ times capacity
*wafer - $12 per square meter,
*polysilicon - $3 per kg
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/06/21/sen-ossoff-introduces-solar-manufacturing-tax-credit/

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Today on the Clean Power Hour with John F Weaver: Biden admin aims to make the US a world leader in lithium-ion batteries; Solar & Storage NE recap by Weaver; Senate passes $250 billion tech investment bill to revitalize semiconductor R&D and manufacturing here in the US; and...Are you going to be able to pay for an autonomous ride in CA this year? This and much much more on today’s CPH.   
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Carbon sequestration of soil goes up when you put solar on ag lands
ISS is getting a new solar power plant!
Erthos wants to lay solar panels right in the dirt
GE says their new turbine can power the whole country...
Today on the Clean Power Hour Episode 48:
Solar projects that support native grasses can sequester more carbon than cropland alone. And about all that corn for ethanol.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/06/1...
Solar panels getting installed on the ISS  -  In the seventh spacewalk of the year outside the International Space Station, the two astronauts installed a new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) into its mounting bracket.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2...
Erthos solar - wants solar panels in the dirt, literally www.Erthos.com
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/...
Big floating wind platform, nice images (chinese company launching bases for floating wind test, first couple of units for a large farm)
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2021/06/...
GE launching research on 12 MW deeper water floating turbine “Would dramatically expand potential of US offshore wind resources to more than 7,000 TeraWatt hours (TWh) per year, nearly double the total annual US energy consumption of 4,000 TWh”
https://www.ge.com/research/newsroom/...
Biden offshore wind California opened for the first time - 3 or 4.6 GW of space

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Today on the Clean Power Hour (Ep.46): Ford launches F-150 Lightning EV truck; Community Solar Tracker by ILSR, a review; Freeing Energy Podcast by Bill Nussey - Montague’s new fav podcast; #solar project of the week - Whaling City Solar! And yes, there is an EV tax credit up to $12K is in the works. Will it happen? We hope so! And much much more clean energy news.

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Clean Power Hour (Ep.45) 
The offshore wind industry is taking off with full approval of Vineyard 1 that will power 400,000 homes when fully constructed. The 13 MW turbines by GE are the pinnacle of wind engineering might. Back on shore, hackers took down the Colonel Pipeline one of the largest fossil fuel pipelines feeding the eastern US. Meanwhile the IEA (International Energy Agency) estimates that humanity needs to scale the solar industry to 630 GW per year by 2030 in order to stop climate chaos and achieve net zero energy. “This special report is the world’s first comprehensive study of how to transition to a net zero energy system by 2050 while ensuring stable and affordable energy supplies, providing universal energy access, and enabling robust economic growth.” This and much much more renewable energy news. 

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It may sound like fake news but all of the Covid-19 virus that has infected humanity would fit inside a soda can or a milk jug at most. 
“Total volume/mass of all SARS-CoV-2 would almost certainly fit into a soft drink container, and definitely into a milk container.”
https://twitter.com/DoctorKarl/status/1393791881482424322

IEA says 630 GW/solar/year needs occur by 2030 to stop climate chaos
https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-by-2050

Hackers took down a major gasoline pipeline - be afraid
https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/colonial-shippers-say-pipeline-communication-system-is-down/P3XATFG575ALJDPZHA5PVR7GZY/

Biden Administration Approves Nation’s First Major Offshore Wind Farm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/climate/climate-wind-farm.html
$20 million for offshore wind in California
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2021/05/17/california-earmarks-offshore-wind-green-hydrogen-money-in-new-budget/

SpaceX has been awarded a $50 million contract from NASA for an "on-orbit large scale cryogenic propellant management and transfer demonstration." Contract is estimated to be completed by the end of 2022.
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=53849.0
SN-15
China lands on Mars
Discovery tele
https://www.discovery.com/dnews/who-wants-to-be-an-astronaut

Spain-based energy company Iberdrola has launched Perseo, an international start-up program competition aimed at identifying competitive and innovative solutions to combine solar photovoltaic plants with activities related to agriculture, horticulture, livestock, fish-farming or bee-keeping.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/05/14/iberdrola-seeks-innovative-solutions-for-agrivoltaics/
A twitter thread of agrivoltaic systems that I’ve collected - https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1311989570716807168

Polar night energy in Finland? (sand energy storage)
https://polarnightenergy.fi/technology

Aluminum batteries coming for Lithium? 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2021/05/13/ev-range-breakthrough-as-new-aluminum-ion-battery-charges-60-times-faster-than-lithium-ion/

Project of the week… Keeversville CSG - 2.7 MW DC community solar project near Joliet IL in the shadow of Braidwood Nuke Station.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DSkOWE-k1I0BmZ2g3PRkNn-xh7ECYAyW/view?usp=sharing

Green aluminum is here! 'Current average cost of producing aluminium fossil fuels $1,680/ton...combination renewables and new “inert anode” technologies see production costs at $1,590/ton, avoiding virtually all emissions from smelting process, @BloombergNEF estimates’'
https://reneweconomy.com.au/green-aluminium-already-cost-competitive-and-huge-opportunity-for-australia/

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Today on the Clean Power Hour: 
Recap of the Meyer Burger interview (launch of their hot off the presses ultra low degradation, high performance solar mods last week);  
John Weaver answers important questions about HJT / TopCon / PERC solar PV technology; 
Land impacts of 100% Wind and Solar are TRIVIAL according to a Carbon Tracker report that Bill McKibben also reports on. Instant permits for residential solar with SolarApp And much much more clean energy and tech news.
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We open the episode with a question: Why is space exploration important for humanity? Montague submits that space is important because it brings humanity together behind a single mission - to become a space faring species. It helps us put aside the age old us vs. them tribalism and warring that has marred humanity for milenia. The ISS is a great example. 

China is building a space station. They launched the first module on April 29, 2021. Will this help or hurt humanity? The first of 11 missions necessary to complete, supply and crew the station by the end of next year. 
https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1388857674385797123

Meyer Burger Press release that explains why they are betting on the future of their heterojunction smartwire technology is the future HJT / TopCon / PERC 
https://www.meyerburger.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Downloads/Praesentationen/Meyer-Burger-Corporate-Presentation-April-2021-EN.pdf 

Artificial blowhole water turbine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfHx6qy9S-Y

Carbon Tracker Report Demonstrates 100 percent wind and solar land use impacts are trivial 
https://carbontracker.org/reports/the-skys-the-limit-solar-wind/

Bill McKibben: Renewable Energy Is Suddenly Startlingly Cheap.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/renewable-energy-is-suddenly-startlingly-cheap

Instant Permits for Resi Solar? There's a SolarApp for That
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/instant-permits-for-home-solar-theres-a-solarapp-for-that/

Refreshing lithium ion batteries, versus recycling
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/05/04/lithium-saturation-to-make-old-batteries-new/

$60 carbon tax in the EU right now
https://twitter.com/HelenCRobertson/status/1389498417500626945

25% efficiency solar cell from LONGi
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/05/03/longi-sets-topcon-cell-record-of-25-09/

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Update from the DOE - Big plans coming to life under Granholm
Ocean floating solar in Singapore
Net metering under attack in CA 
Biden Huge Infrastructure Plan - GND Gone wild!?
PA state Gov now solar powered… nice vid 

The US Dept of Energy is putting a stake in the ground for offshore wind, perovskite solar PV, next generation CSP and aiming for net zero by 2050. Today on the Clean Power Hour with John Weaver: Update from the DOE - Big plans coming to life under Granholm; Ocean floating solar in Singapore; Net metering under attack in CA; Biden Huge Infrastructure Plan; PA state Gov now solar powered and much much more solar, storage and clean energy news. Let’s grow solar! -Tim Montague, host & creator, @TGMontague on Twitter

#solarpv #solarpower #solarenergy #pv #energystorage #ESS #storage #cleanenergy #cleanpower #cleanpowerhour #Montague #Weaver #EV #EVs #EVnews #trackers #solartrackers #solardeveloper #solarEPC #floatingsolar #energytransition #renewableenergy #solar #solarnews #greenhydrogen #SolarPodcast https://youtu.be/02SVVDzaMQE 

Badass animation of STI Nordland tracker 

https://youtu.be/NKEGCE06MLI

Electric cars being charged in 1907

https://twitter.com/alvinfoo/status/1375823658443104263

Update from DOE Secretary Granholm. Goals, funding priorities, R&D into Cad Tel, Perovskites, CSP Gen3

https://youtu.be/Ga9S928B7fk

Ocean floating solar in Singapore 

https://electrek.co/2021/03/25/singapore-completes-one-of-the-first-floating-solar-farms-in-the-sea/

First V2G school busses

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210323005889/en/Blue-Bird-Delivers-North-America%E2%80%99s-First-Ever-Commercial-Application-of-Vehicle-to-Grid-Technology-in-Electric-School-Bus-Partnership-with-Nuvve-and-Illinois-School-Districts

https://www.voanews.com/usa/biden-looking-big-infrastructure-spending-deal

Ten trillion infrastructure plan over the next decade

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/infrastructure-bill-biden-administration-progressive-democrats_n_605e518ec5b6531eed04e2a6

US breaks 100 GW in January

https://commercialsolarguy.com/2021/03/30/united-states-installs-100-gigawatts-of-solar-power/

PA state Gov now solar powered… nice vid 

https://www.governor.pa.gov/newsroom/gov-wolf-announces-largest-government-solar-energy-commitment-in-the-u-s/ 

(CA) net metering under attack

https://calssa.org/net-metering 

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We launched a new segment on the Clean Power Hour today - Project of the Week. Today on the Clean Power Hour, Ep.39: 200 gigafactories are being built globally; Canary Media Launch Paying coal plants to close?; Mars helicopter is on the ground and charging; Will Tesla deliver 1M EVs in 2021? And much much more solar, storage and clean energy news with my co-host John Weaver. 

SpaceX SN11 goes BOOM, and then flying chunks of metal
https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1378039464266719232

200 Gigafactories totalling 3.4 TWh/year of manufacturing capacity
https://www.benchmarkminerals.com/membership/global-battery-arms-race-200-gigafactories-china-leads/

Canary Media Launches
https://rmi.org/press-release/rmi-launches-canary-media-independent-energy-journalism-powered-by-former-greentech-media-staff-and-david-roberts/ 

Speedway solar, project of the week: Project of the week - Speedway Solar near Joliet IL - 3 MW DC / 2 MW AC SAT with CES and SRE 

List of electric cars from 1907
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/overview-of-early-electric-cars.html

Mars solar powered helicopter moving along, on the ground officially, ‘takeoff is now slated for no earlier than April 11, with data arriving on Earth on April 12‘.
https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1379095247192346628

Caterpillar unveils an all-electric 26-ton excavator with a giant 300 kWh battery pack
https://electrek.co/2019/01/29/caterpillar-electric-excavator-giant-battery-pack/amp/

Pickup truck covered with solar panels from Meyer Burger
https://renewablesnow.com/news/german-researchers-couple-pv-to-high-voltage-system-to-extend-ev-range-736652/

Today, we’re talking about a moron - ‘what happens at night?
https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/sen-yaw-criticizes-pa-s-new-solar-energy-initiative-what-happens-at-night/article_791606c8-8bd3-11eb-8713-bb92cd9fffa5.html

Induction stove cooktop, ‘I cook at 400 watts, takes me ~20 minutes, at 22¢/kWh - that's 2.67¢ of electricity per meal’ - did the math wrong here, because I used 20¢/kWh (but close enough) https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1378505647231279108

Germany & Kansas paying coal plants to close
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-hardcoal-auction-idUSKBN2BO58B

Tesla is gonna pump a million cars this year. Q1 times 4 is 740k units. Q1 times 4 with 20% quarterly growth is 993k units.
https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-q1-2021-vehicle-production-deliveries

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Today on the Clean Power Hour with John Weaver and Tim Montague | Ep.40: 
Canadian Solar mass produces 665 W module (solar panel)
Jobs Act break down 
New Mexico now has community solar
Kite power is approaching commercial deployment
Tesla jacks the prices of solar roof
Solar for 1.04¢/kWh in Saudi Arabia

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Tesla increases solar roof pricing for people already with signed contracts
https://electrek.co/2021/04/11/tesla-hikes-solar-roof-price-on-contracts-signed-over-a-year-ago/

Canadian Solar 665 
https://solarindustrymag.com/canadian-solar-begins-mass-production-of-665-w-modules?utm_medium=email&utm_source=LNH+04-15-2021&utm_campaign=SI+Latest+News+Headlines

Project of the week: *Saudi Arabia 1.04/kWh record price, but there are dynamics, but still record
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/04/12/saudi-arabias-second-pv-tender-draws-world-record-low-bid-of-0-0104-kwh/

Jobs Act cliff notes
https://www-extensibleenergy-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.extensibleenergy.com/amp/biden-s-infrastructure-plan-for-solar

New Mexico has become the 21st state to enable community solar, following Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's (D) signing Senate Bill 84 into law.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/04/06/new-mexico-gains-a-community-solar-program/

SkySails Power - nice video of how kite power works
https://youtu.be/DwiXTye681M 

*'SK will pay 1 trillion won in cash and 1 trillion in royalties to the rival as compensation for its theft of lithium-ion battery technologies. LG, in exchange, will drop all legal action against SK both in Korea and abroad.'
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210411000202
Here’s a a bit of a story on the behind the scene stuff - https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/how-bitter-korean-rivals-settled-a-rift-that-threatened-georgia-battery-plant/B7J76F3Q7NGJ5EUXVCMY2P2LOA/

*“If the US is to achieve a carbon free grid by 2035 then it would need to at the very least add around 70GW of wind and solar a year from 2025 onwards,” said @Tomrrees’
https://www.pv-tech.org/us-solar-and-wind-acceleration-not-enough-to-meet-bidens-climate-targets/

A solar power plant so big, they’re building a factory to feed it
https://reneweconomy.com.au/sun-cable-submits-plans-for-gigawatt-scale-solar-manufacturing-plant-in-darwin/
Plus a video of what hardware they’re using and how it installs:
https://twitter.com/5B_Tech/status/1351706649770266625

*'Wyoming sets aside $$$ to sue states for their renewable energy policies. The bill allocates $1.2 million for lawsuits against states with regulations that impede Wyoming’s ability to export coal or force early closures of coal-fired plants in the state'
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/04/14/wyoming-targets-states-colorado-on-coal-renewable-energy/

California breaks peak solar number, add roughly 8GWdc of rooftop, that makes 21 GWdc of solar
https://twitter.com/JonathanPapai/status/1381716057984004096

Baby born and using the solar powered baby warmer at the Bakdil's solar powered public health centre (PHC)in spark hill, Meghalaya
https://twitter.com/Harishhande/status/1381010062722801665

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Community Solar is growing in Pennsylvania! Maybe
America’s highways are an significant opportunity for solar PV
The Vikings are coming for your hydro and floating solar opportunity
Tax revenue from community and utility scale solar is helping rural communities
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See Ep 132 of energy transition show re Solar forecast 

1. $4.2 million in land lease payments for current 1 GW of solar capacity in the pipeline -
https://commercialsolarguy.com/2020/10/19/community-solar-in-pennsylvania-offering-4-2-million-in-land-lease-payments-a-year/

2. Scatec - big solar developer - buys hydroelectric company (image the rolodex) - https://www.pv-tech.org/news/scatec-solar-to-acquire-hydropower-developer-touts-floating-solar-potential

3. America’s highways have significant solar potential
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/10/13/americas-highways-have-significant-solar-potential/

4. Meyer Berger in the factory video - https://amp-zdf-de.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute-in-deutschland/im-osten-geht-die-sonne-wieder-auf-100.html
A corollary - list of 5 potenal large volume module manufacturers in Europe, plus this solar cell manufacturer, -https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/5-would-be-giga-scale-solar-manufacturers

5. ‘'panels installed in Europe in 1982...One of the encapsulate recipes retained 95% of the power they had 35 years' 'printed circuit board is large sheet of foil bonded to solar cell, allows ~85% of the metal (silver) on the solar cell to be eliminated'--50 year warranty-- https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/10/everything-we-know-about-the-newest-u-s-solar-panel-manufacturer-violet-power/

6. Fluence buys AMS - smarter solar plus storage - right now I’m talking with STEM on a project - below a single shipping container seems a financial challenge - https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/storage-supplier-fluence-acquires-ams-for-market-dispatch-software

7. ‘One reason solar remains so popular in states like NC: new projects drive a nearly **2,000%** avg increase in annual tax revenue per parcel - a major new source of funding for rural, economically distressed counties to invest in local services.’ https://twitter.com/tylerhnorris/status/1316400000583303175

8. List of largest US solar EPCs - https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/10/14/swinerton-was-the-largest-solar-epc-contractor-outside-china-in-2019/

9. Weekly update - Solar spot pricing - https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1316370426038280194

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