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Texas installs another big solar + battery storage project

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Photo: Enel North America Power-hungry Texas needs solar and battery storage to help meet demand and balance the grid, so its largest utility-scale storage operator is delivering. GW of wind and solar plus over 1 GW of grid-scale storage. Texas consumes more energy than any other state, and demand is growing.

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Texas Clean Energy Project signs long-term CO2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum for enhanced oil recovery; 90% CO2 capture from IGCC coal polygen plant

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Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa.

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DOE ROD for coal-based Texas Clean Energy Project sets in motion $450M of federal funding

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The ROD and cooperative agreement between DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and Summit Texas Clean Energy, LLC (STCE) sets in motion continued federal cost-shared funding for the Summit Texas Clean Energy Project, to be built just west of Midland-Odessa, Texas. About 200 megawatts of electricity will be put on the power grid.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades. power-grid transmission. year grid study from the U.S.

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SpaceX installs first parts of tower meant to catch Starship boosters

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Situated a stone’s throw from the Gulf of Mexico on the windy South Texas coast, the process of carefully mating two halves of what amounts to a several hundred ton skyscraper will be far harder than it might seem. And a few more cool shots of the Super Heavy Booster grid fin section taken today. NASASpaceflight.com).

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California DMV seems to want Tesla to advertise FSD & Autopilot

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Although Tesla didn’t close down its factories in California, the company relocated its headquarters to Austin following Elon Musk’s personal decision to move to the Texas capital. And the move has proven to be very beneficial for both Tesla and Texas. And it would encourage the largest oil-producing U.S.

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock. The approximately 500 terawatt hours in new coal consumption is roughly equivalent to all the power consumed in Texas in a normal year. thousand in 2017. thousand in 2017.

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