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Montauk Renewables signs LOI with European Energy to provide CO2 for e-methanol production in Texas

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The LOI immediately commits Montauk’s CO 2 from its Texas facilities to EE North America’s Texas Power-to-X project. EE North America intends to construct a Power-to-X facility in Texas that would take the biogenic CO 2 from Montauk’s locations and use it in the production of e-methanol.

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Solar to displace natural gas in the daytime + in summer on the Texas grid

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Solar is forecast to displace natural gas in the middle of the day and in the summer on the Texas grid, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Pecan Street launches Texas’ first grid-connected vehicle-to-grid research and testing center

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Austin, Texas-based energy research organization Pecan Street Inc. launched Texas’ first grid-tied vehicle-to-grid (V2G) testing center at its lab in Austin, turning electric vehicles into a dispatchable load shaving tool for the municipally-owned electric utility, Austin Energy.

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Tesla to provide Virtual Power Plant (VPP) services to Texas grid

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A recent press release from the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) has revealed that Tesla will be providing Virtual Power Plant (VPP) services to the state’s grid. The program is part of the Aggregate Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) project that the PUCT pushed last year. It’s a win-win for Texas.

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H2@Scale project launched in Texas; renewable hydrogen for multiple end-use applications

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Frontier Energy, Inc., in close collaboration with GTI and The University of Texas at Austin, has launched a US Department of Energy project, Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond. It is first time that both sources of renewable hydrogen will be used in the same project.

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As Texas hits 112F, here’s how big battery storage is keeping the grid online

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As the brutal heat wave in Texas continues, Electrek spoke with Julia Souder, CEO of the global nonprofit Long Duration Energy Storage Council , about how big battery storage is helping to keep the Texas grid online.

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Texas solar and wind are setting records, and the state’s grid can’t handle it

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Texas solar and wind are going to double by 2035, but if the state’s grid isn’t upgraded, then all that power is going to go to waste, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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