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The US installed more solar in Q1 2024 than it did in all of 2018

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Photo: Cypress Creek Renewables In Q1 2024, the US saw the largest quarter of solar manufacturing growth in its history, bringing its total installed capacity to 200 GW. Wood Mackenzie now projects that the US solar industry will install another 40 GW in 2024. A record-setting 11.8 A record-setting 11.8 GW in Q4 2023.

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LGES & Honda battery plant in Ohio starts construction on $3.5 billion facility

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LG Energy Solution (LGES) and Honda’s joint electric vehicle (EV) battery plant started construction on the facility, installing the first steel beam on the site in Jeffersonville, Ohio. The Honda-LGES battery plant hints at the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) strong influence in the automobile industry.

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Xcel Energy, INL to use nuclear energy for clean hydrogen production; HTSE

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The resulting hydrogen will initially be used at the power plant, but it could eventually be sold to other industries. It builds on a project launched last year to demonstrate how hydrogen production facilities could be installed at operating nuclear power plants. The report was published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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EGEB: Solar could make up 40% of US power by 2035 – Biden administration

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In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): If Congress provides tax credits for the solar industry, it could grow rapidly by 2035. GW solar factory in Ohio. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates.

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The Relay That Changed the Power Industry

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If there is no proper scheme or device installed with the aim of protecting the equipment and ensuring continuity of the power supply, an outage or blackout could propagate throughout the grid. To do that, protection devices must be installed. The fault shunts extra current to some parts of the circuit, shorting it out.

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Honda targeting 100% BEV & FCEV sales in N America by 2040; new e:Architecture EVs coming in second half of this decade

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For the procurement of batteries, Honda will strive to realize a “local production and local procurement” approach in Japan, which also will contribute to the growth of domestic industries in Japan.

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Ohio’s largest solar farm just came online

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Fox Squirrel Solar isn’t just Ohio’s largest solar farm; it’s the largest onshore clean energy project developed and built by EDF Renewables North America. million solar panels and 159 inverters in total, and During peak construction of Phase 1, 650 workers were onsite installing 10,000 solar panels per day. It’s made up of 1.4

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