February 2022

El Paso Electric Issues Additional RFP for Texas Community Solar Program

El Paso Electric (EPE), has issued a request to proposal (RFP), for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), services for a utility-scale solar generating plant of 10 MW with optional 3 MW battery storage system. This RFP is for the expansion of EPE’s existing, fully subscribed, Texas Community Solar Program. This project

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President Issues Proclamation on Positive Adjustments to Import Competition for Select PV Cells

President Joe Biden The President has determined the safeguard action on imports crystalline silicon PV (CSPV), cells, is necessary to prevent or rectify the serious injury to domestic industry. He also believes that domestic industry is making a positive adjustment in the face of increased import competition. Proclamation 9693 provided for the extension of the

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University of California system sues 8minute Solar, co-founder

8minute’s Lotus Solar Farm, California (Source: 8minute Solar Energy). A lawsuit accuses developer Tom Buttgenbach of misappropriating the University of California system’s money after the latter invested in a collection of solar projects. The complaint was filed by Alameda County Superior Court’s public university regents in January. It alleges that Buttgenbach falsely claimed to the

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PNNL researchers announce waste-to-hydrogen conversion process

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). A research team at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a system capable of converting waste from sewage, food crops, algae and other renewable carbon sources into hydrogen fuel. PNNL’s electrocatalytic oxidation fuel recovery system turns waste carbon from farms, sewage and other

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