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Texas goes big on solar + storage that can power 41,000+ homes

Baua Electric

Photo: Cypress Creek Renewables A 208-megawatt (MW) solar farm with 80 megawatt hours (MWh) of storage has come online west of San Antonio, Texas. Solar + storage developers Cypress Creek Renewables brought Zier Solar + Storage online in Brackettville, Texas, on May 2, 2024. Texas is No 1 in the US for solar capacity.

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

Green Car Congress

The project partners will generate zero-carbon hydrogen onsite via electrolysis with solar and wind power and reformation of renewable natural gas from a Texas landfill. At the Port of Houston, the project team will conduct a feasibility study for scaling up hydrogen production and use.

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Why Did 200 Bitcoin Miners and Oil & Gas Execs Just Have a Secret Meeting in Houston?

CleanTechnica EVs

Bitcoin has a well known problem, even if many bitcoin fans would like to ignore it or pretend it isn’t real. The problem is that bitcoin mining uses an enormous amount of electricity. It’s not a large amount, and actually maybe it’s not even an enormous amount — it’s an absurd amount. Naturally, people who […].

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California oil producer applies for LCFS credits for producing crude oil using solar-generated power

Green Car Congress

Seneca Resource Corporation (Seneca) has applied for LCFS credits for producing crude oil using solar generated electricity. Seneca Resources Corporation is the exploration and production (E&P) segment of National Fuel Gas Company, headquartered in Houston, Texas. The Seneca Solar Project is a 3.13

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Energy ECS company McDermott joins H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond

Green Car Congress

The project will leverage Texas’ extensive resources—wind power, solar energy, underground salt-dome storage formations, hydrogen pipelines, natural gas infrastructure, international port operations, and a large, concentrated industrial infrastructure—to demonstrate the potential of DOE’s H2@Scale initiative.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Green Car Congress

Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc.,

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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

Houston chapter leads toward clean energy in Texas. The outreach efforts of the Houston Electric Auto Association (HEAA), founded 34 years ago in the heart of American oil country, have not always been met with a positive response. “We Just don’t bring your Tesla HEAA meets at TX/RX Labs , a Houston makerspace. “We

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