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Greasezilla | March 17, 2022

Downey Ridge Environmental Company, the creator of the Greasezilla® fats, oils, and grease (FOG) and used cooking oil (UCO) separation and processing system, has partnered with LEND Environmental to expedite the recycling of used cooking oil and grease trap trash throughout southern California. Additional locations will be established to separate waste input streams into water, batter, and oils to recover valuable organics for re-use as clean energy. Additionally, the facilities will help Ca...

Renewables Now | March 25, 2020

Nearly all of Hawaii’s utility-scale battery storage capacity is installed with onshore wind turbines or solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, allowing excess electricity from those generators to be stored and used later, according to a report by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). As of January 2020, about 30% of Hawaii’s total generating capacity is solar or wind. The non-dispatchable nature of these technologies creates operational challenges for system operators. Pairing batteries wit...

solarpowerworldonline | April 06, 2020

Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, an infrastructure construction company with specialized energy and heavy civil expertise, announced that it has begun construction on the 25-MWac Appling Solar Farm, located near the Baxley, Georgia. Nashville-based Silicon Ranch, one of the nation’s largest independent solar power producers, selected IEA’s subsidiary, IEA Constructors, as the EPC contractor for the project. IEA is responsible for the design, procurement, construction, commissioning and ha...

Renewables Now | April 14, 2020

Work has been finalised on the network connection for Neoen’s upgraded 150-MW/194-MWh Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia, the French renewable energy company said. The 100-MW/129-MWh lithium-ion battery, better known as the Tesla Big Battery system, is being expanded with an additional 50 MW/64.5 MWh of capacity by Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA). The facility is located at the site of Neoen’s 315-MW Hornsdale wind farm. After the completion of network connection works, the enlarged battery installa...