American Samoa’s Solar+Storage Microgrid

With falling prices, new government initiatives and new business models, the opportunities for solar seem endless. However, intermittency issues and curtailment risk threaten this growth of solar energy in emerging markets and need to be addressed. In this webinar Ana Verana Lima (Bloomberg New Energy Finance), Frederik van Pallandt (FMO) and Javier Relanchio (Mott MacDonald) will shed their light on the evolving landscape of solar energy in emerging markets.

The webinar provided an overview of the Texas Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (CREZ) process, including the regulatory, procedural and technical considerations that were critical to its successful implementation in Texas. The webinar also introduced a Renewable Energy Zones “Toolkit” developed through a USAID and NREL partnership and intended to guide other power systems in adapting elements of the CREZ approach to their own power system planning processes.

Just about every motivational video on the Internet contains some version of the line “If you want it to happen, then get up and make it happen.” And that’s for good reason. A sense of urgency, focus and determination can often drive a project through all obstacles to reach the goal. RagingWire is living those words as it leads the charge to renewable energy in Northern California data centers.

The Midwest is home to large open spaces, farms, former industrial cities and famously friendly people, yet there is only around 2.3 GW of solar deployed across 12 states in the Midwest; or less than 4% of the U.S. total. Nearly half of that is in one state, Minnesota. Now with the advent of FEJA, Illinois is adding 2.8 GW of community solar, DG and utility scale projects in the next few years. New legislation like the Path to 100 could catapult Illinois past MN. But numerous Midwestern states have BIG solar projects on the books. A Midwest boom is coming! PV magazine found 44 GW of large solar projects in the queues of the three grid operators that divide up the region: PJM Interconnection, MISO and SPP. Furthermore, at last count 200 MW of community solar projects .