Despite the region’s competitive advantages for renewable energy, developers need to recognize local stakeholders’ concerns to keep the energy transition on pace, panelists said Tuesday at the Cleanpower conference in Minneapolis.
Renewables developers need to think creatively and look at largely untapped labor pools to source talent, executives from Mortenson, Pattern Energy and MasTec Renewables said at the Cleanpower expo in Minneapolis.
The grid operators plan to finish their interregional transfer capability study early next year.
The environmental benefits of vehicle electrification are not as obvious as once thought, and the grid is simply not ready to service the load.
PG&E failed to show the proposed transaction meets “even the minimal public interest standard,” the PUC said in its decision.
“This rule intentionally sets impossible standards to destroy the coal industry,” North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley said Thursday.
The DOE’s goals are “aggressive” but will help the industry focus on cutting costs and scaling hydrogen technology, Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association President Frank Wolak said.
PECO Energy and Duquesne Light urged the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to allow utilities to own energy storage assets, while the Solar Energy Industries Association and others sought a path for third-party ownership.
“Absent significant reforms or market innovations, most projects entering PJM’s queue today are unlikely to come online before 2030,” the report’s authors said.
Opponents of right-of-first-refusal laws claim that incumbent transmission providers have no incentive to reduce costs. The exact opposite is true.