Jorgy
@jjorgensonmcr.bsky.social
Researching and writing about renewable energy in the Western states.
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3/3 China: "Highway solar projects have expanded from service-area rooftops to slopes, medians and tunnel entrances...installed capacity reached 1.7 GW, accounting for 76% of distributed renewable power in the transport sector" Or you can have ice plant. 🔌💡
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/23/c...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/23/c...
China expands highway solar as provinces race to decarbonize transport
China is rapidly installing PV along highways, combining slopes, tunnels, and service areas to generate renewable electricity and cut transport-sector emissions.
www.pv-magazine.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
3/3 China: "Highway solar projects have expanded from service-area rooftops to slopes, medians and tunnel entrances...installed capacity reached 1.7 GW, accounting for 76% of distributed renewable power in the transport sector" Or you can have ice plant. 🔌💡
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/23/c...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/23/c...
2/3 My friends in Idaho and Montana will love this. Nitish Mathur, SVP of customer experience: “With the launch of our off-grid solution, we are giving homeowners a reliable path to complete energy independence”. 💡🔌
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/30/e...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/30/e...
Enphase introduces complete off-grid solar and storage system
Enphase Energy has introduced a complete off-grid solar and storage system that integrates batteries, microinverters, and generator control, with international rollout set for 2026.
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
2/3 My friends in Idaho and Montana will love this. Nitish Mathur, SVP of customer experience: “With the launch of our off-grid solution, we are giving homeowners a reliable path to complete energy independence”. 💡🔌
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/30/e...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/30/e...
1/3 Storage Jerry. "Should the forecast bear out, the U.S. will have roughly three times more battery capacity in 2030 than it does now." President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act left incentives for battery storage relatively untouched" 🔌💡
www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...
Chart: Batteries are set to surge onto the US grid
The transition to renewable energy — particularly solar — relies on energy storage. A ton more batteries are about to come online.
www.canarymedia.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
1/3 Storage Jerry. "Should the forecast bear out, the U.S. will have roughly three times more battery capacity in 2030 than it does now." President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act left incentives for battery storage relatively untouched" 🔌💡
www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...
4/3 From @washingtonpost.com an entire article about V2G that doesn't mention V2G. Pilot program participant Brian Foreman said "he made about $400 in profit selling energy from his EV battery to the power grid on weekdays between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m." 💡🔌
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www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
EV owners are using their trucks’ giant batteries to prevent blackouts
Electric cars and trucks can use their huge batteries to power your home during a blackout — or even prevent blackouts by selling energy back to the power grid.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
4/3 From @washingtonpost.com an entire article about V2G that doesn't mention V2G. Pilot program participant Brian Foreman said "he made about $400 in profit selling energy from his EV battery to the power grid on weekdays between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m." 💡🔌
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
3/3 I don't usually post EV news I leave that to @jdeely.bsky.social but I thought this was cool. An EV with an expandable Solar roof that generates energy whether the car is driving or parked. w0w! 🔌💡
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/27/n...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/27/n...
Nissan presents mini electric vehicle with expandable solar roof
The Japanese car maker announced it will show a prototype extendable solar PV rooftop onboard a Nissan Sakura Kei at an upcoming mobility industry event in Japan.
www.pv-magazine.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
3/3 I don't usually post EV news I leave that to @jdeely.bsky.social but I thought this was cool. An EV with an expandable Solar roof that generates energy whether the car is driving or parked. w0w! 🔌💡
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/27/n...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/27/n...
2/3 A vote for Pumped Hydro Energy Storage (PHES) from ISES. The plan:"No new dams on rivers are needed... Reservoir walls are built by scooping rock from the bed of the reservoirs...scoop more rock to make the walls a bit higher." Worth a look. 🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/30/u...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/30/u...
Unlimited low-cost energy storage
In its latest monthly for pv magazine, the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) explains how pumped-hydro energy storage combined with PV power generation could provide 24/7 power to data centers...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
2/3 A vote for Pumped Hydro Energy Storage (PHES) from ISES. The plan:"No new dams on rivers are needed... Reservoir walls are built by scooping rock from the bed of the reservoirs...scoop more rock to make the walls a bit higher." Worth a look. 🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/30/u...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/30/u...
1/3 Any SolarEdge (SEDG) fans out there? "The company announced a partnership with Infineon to produce solid-state transformers designed to power AI datacenters." "The company’s stock price is up over 25% in the trading session following the earnings call." 🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/s...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/s...
SolarEdge stock leaps on Q3 earnings, announces development of datacenter transformer
SolarEdge posted its third consecutive quarter of revenue growth and increased margins. The company announced a partnership with Infineon to produce solid-state transformers designed to power AI datac...
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
1/3 Any SolarEdge (SEDG) fans out there? "The company announced a partnership with Infineon to produce solid-state transformers designed to power AI datacenters." "The company’s stock price is up over 25% in the trading session following the earnings call." 🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/s...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/s...
3/3 Made in the USA. From @solaranne.bsky.social "Until now the United States couldn’t meet its own demand for solar ingots, wafers and cells, but that changed with Corning’s announcement of an ingot and wafer manufacturing facility in Hemlock, Michigan." 💡🔌
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/29/e...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/29/e...
Every major component of solar supply chain is now made in the U.S.
A Solar Energy Industries Association report indicates that the U.S. solar manufacturing pipeline is robust, however, Trump Administration policies, regulations and trade actions could stall progress ...
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
3/3 Made in the USA. From @solaranne.bsky.social "Until now the United States couldn’t meet its own demand for solar ingots, wafers and cells, but that changed with Corning’s announcement of an ingot and wafer manufacturing facility in Hemlock, Michigan." 💡🔌
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/29/e...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/29/e...
2/3 More bad news for gas. Cassady Craighill, technical education director at GridLab provides gas vs solar cost analysis and concludes: "relying exclusively on new gas is far from a wise path out of the energy affordability wilderness." 🔌💡
www.utilitydive.com/news/natural...
www.utilitydive.com/news/natural...
Gas reliance will worsen the energy affordability crisis
Utilities and regulators should consider other options before investing in gas plants and making customers pay the inflated price, writes Cassady Craighill, technical education director at GridLab.
www.utilitydive.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
2/3 More bad news for gas. Cassady Craighill, technical education director at GridLab provides gas vs solar cost analysis and concludes: "relying exclusively on new gas is far from a wise path out of the energy affordability wilderness." 🔌💡
www.utilitydive.com/news/natural...
www.utilitydive.com/news/natural...
1/3 I mentioned Electricity Prices vs Inflation on Sunday. Here's Meris Lutz at Utility Dive with the receipts. 🔌💡
www.utilitydive.com/news/residen...
www.utilitydive.com/news/residen...
Residential electricity prices up more than 6% in August: EIA
Developers, analysts and policy professionals see growing cause for concern as costs rise.
www.utilitydive.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
1/3 I mentioned Electricity Prices vs Inflation on Sunday. Here's Meris Lutz at Utility Dive with the receipts. 🔌💡
www.utilitydive.com/news/residen...
www.utilitydive.com/news/residen...
3/3 More healthcare. We Care Solar Suitcases include a 12V, 20Ah lithium ferrous phosphate battery, 4 high-efficiency LED lights for medical task lighting, 2 12V DC accessory sockets, 2 USB ports, and 2 expansion ports. Works with multiple panels. Great idea! 🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/28/o...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/28/o...
Off-grid solar suitcases delivered to more than 10,000 health clinics in sub-Saharan Africa
Solar-integrated suitcases bring critical backup power and lighting to health clinics for women giving birth. The kits were provided by Berkeley, California-based We Care Solar.
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
3/3 More healthcare. We Care Solar Suitcases include a 12V, 20Ah lithium ferrous phosphate battery, 4 high-efficiency LED lights for medical task lighting, 2 12V DC accessory sockets, 2 USB ports, and 2 expansion ports. Works with multiple panels. Great idea! 🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/28/o...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/28/o...
2/3 Some investment news for those of you bullish on clean energy. 🔌💡
Batteries can earn money for people or for business. And this model sorta kinda does it for both:
www.ess-news.com/2025/10/09/b...
Interestingly, I did meet a startup in Germany that wanted to do similar but at zero cost, and where you got paid to operate a small battery even in your apartment.
www.ess-news.com/2025/10/09/b...
Interestingly, I did meet a startup in Germany that wanted to do similar but at zero cost, and where you got paid to operate a small battery even in your apartment.
Base Power hauls in $1 billion to take its distributed home battery model beyond Texas - Energy Storage
The two-year-old power company has deployed more than 100 MWh of residential battery capacity across Texas, pooling thousands of installs in homes into a grid resource as a virtual power plant. It wil...
www.ess-news.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
2/3 Some investment news for those of you bullish on clean energy. 🔌💡
1/3 Combing my old world (healthcare) with my current one. From @laist.com Joe Brothman, director of UCI Health general services: "The operation of this campus will have no emissions. The energy that we're utilizing is all green electricity that we're importing.” 🔌💡
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laist.com/news/all-ele...
The first all-electric hospital in the US will soon open in Irvine
It’s part of what the hospital says is a 'healthcare without harm' model.
laist.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
1/3 Combing my old world (healthcare) with my current one. From @laist.com Joe Brothman, director of UCI Health general services: "The operation of this campus will have no emissions. The energy that we're utilizing is all green electricity that we're importing.” 🔌💡
laist.com/news/all-ele...
laist.com/news/all-ele...
3/3 From @canarymedia.com. More rural communities benefitting from clean energy projects. "An acre of land, after all, may yield hundreds of dollars if devoted to crops but thousands if leased for panels." Also worth reading Eric C in the comment section. 🔌💡
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
Can farmland thrive with solar? This Virginia nonprofit is finding…
The agrivoltaics demonstration project is experimenting with growing crops under solar panels to determine what works and help educate a wary public.
www.canarymedia.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
3/3 From @canarymedia.com. More rural communities benefitting from clean energy projects. "An acre of land, after all, may yield hundreds of dollars if devoted to crops but thousands if leased for panels." Also worth reading Eric C in the comment section. 🔌💡
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
2/3 Flying home Friday I saw many naked roofs. With electricity costs outpacing inflation I wonder why we don't see more of these. Kudos to United Natural Foods "the 6.7-megawatt solar array generates enough electricity to power roughly 1,500 homes annually." 🔌💡
www.utilitydive.com/news/unfi-co...
www.utilitydive.com/news/unfi-co...
Wholesale food giant completes largest rooftop solar project to date
The array atop a United Natural Foods’ California distribution center is expected to meet approximately 80% of the facility's electricity needs. Other grocery companies have also turned to solar energ...
www.utilitydive.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
2/3 Flying home Friday I saw many naked roofs. With electricity costs outpacing inflation I wonder why we don't see more of these. Kudos to United Natural Foods "the 6.7-megawatt solar array generates enough electricity to power roughly 1,500 homes annually." 🔌💡
www.utilitydive.com/news/unfi-co...
www.utilitydive.com/news/unfi-co...
1/3 Let's take another look at future copper demand with PV Magazine and Wood MacKenzie.
"Wood Mackenzie says this growth trajectory seems “certain"" And adds this factoid “Each electric vehicle contains up to four times more copper than a conventional car.”
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pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/15/c...
"Wood Mackenzie says this growth trajectory seems “certain"" And adds this factoid “Each electric vehicle contains up to four times more copper than a conventional car.”
🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/15/c...
Copper demand to rise 24% by 2035, says Wood Mackenzie
Demand for copper, often considered as one of the most valuable alternatives to silver in solar manufacturing, is expected to increase by almost a quarter globally by the middle of next decade. Wood M...
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
1/3 Let's take another look at future copper demand with PV Magazine and Wood MacKenzie.
"Wood Mackenzie says this growth trajectory seems “certain"" And adds this factoid “Each electric vehicle contains up to four times more copper than a conventional car.”
🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/15/c...
"Wood Mackenzie says this growth trajectory seems “certain"" And adds this factoid “Each electric vehicle contains up to four times more copper than a conventional car.”
🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/15/c...
3/3 And finally for today from Ryan Kennedy one of my favorite topics. Smart land use for solar. "This installation is a powerful example of transforming underutilized assets into productive resources." - Eric Potts, managing director of TotalEnergies. 🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/20/c...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/20/c...
Closed Baltimore 213-acre landfill is reborn as solar power plant
TotalEnergies developed the municipal solar project with specialized ballasted racking on the capped landfill, installing over 15,000 solar panels onsite.
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
3/3 And finally for today from Ryan Kennedy one of my favorite topics. Smart land use for solar. "This installation is a powerful example of transforming underutilized assets into productive resources." - Eric Potts, managing director of TotalEnergies. 🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/20/c...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/20/c...
2/3 Investment news from @reuters.com. "U.S. power consumption, stagnant for over a decade, is forecast to grow sharply. With gas turbines in short supply and nuclear years away, solar-plus-storage is emerging as the only scalable short-term solution." 25 months? 🔌💡
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
2/3 Investment news from @reuters.com. "U.S. power consumption, stagnant for over a decade, is forecast to grow sharply. With gas turbines in short supply and nuclear years away, solar-plus-storage is emerging as the only scalable short-term solution." 25 months? 🔌💡
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
1/3 From @rachelmetea.bsky.social news of New Mexico's first community solar project ready to go live. "Low-income households can sign up for free and will save around 20% on their electric bills with no long-term contracts." 🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/02/a...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/02/a...
After years of legal challenges, New Mexico celebrates its first community solar project
After the New Mexico's investor-owned utilities fought against New Mexico's community solar program, bringing it all the way to the state' supreme court, New Mexico is celebrating the completion of it...
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
1/3 From @rachelmetea.bsky.social news of New Mexico's first community solar project ready to go live. "Low-income households can sign up for free and will save around 20% on their electric bills with no long-term contracts." 🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/02/a...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/10/02/a...
Stop the presses! @latitudemedia.bsky.social "Idaho Power Company asked Oregon state regulators to slash electricity prices by nearly 1% for ratepayers across the board." Shutting down a costly unit of a 522MW coal plant, removed costs to provide the cuts. 🔌💡
www.latitudemedia.com/news/after-c...
www.latitudemedia.com/news/after-c...
After closing coal plants, Idaho Power is the rare utility cutting rates
The utility asked regulators to lower electricity rates in Oregon, even as its peers raise them — and Trump pushes coal as the solution.
www.latitudemedia.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Stop the presses! @latitudemedia.bsky.social "Idaho Power Company asked Oregon state regulators to slash electricity prices by nearly 1% for ratepayers across the board." Shutting down a costly unit of a 522MW coal plant, removed costs to provide the cuts. 🔌💡
www.latitudemedia.com/news/after-c...
www.latitudemedia.com/news/after-c...
I've been on the road so catching up on interesting articles in my inbox. @canarymedia.com Checkout their graph which shows. in the 1st part of the year, solar generation delivered a record 39% of the state’s generation, while fossil fuels provided just 26%. 🔌💡
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
Solar is crushing gas power in California this year
The state’s combination of solar and battery plants has pushed clean generation of electricity to new heights, offering a welcome reprieve from high gas…
www.canarymedia.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I've been on the road so catching up on interesting articles in my inbox. @canarymedia.com Checkout their graph which shows. in the 1st part of the year, solar generation delivered a record 39% of the state’s generation, while fossil fuels provided just 26%. 🔌💡
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
Indy Star: The long view pays off for Randolph,IN "millions of dollars have poured into school districts, emergency services, bridge repairs, streets, sidewalks and parks." Andy Fahl, lifelong resident "I’ll be dead and gone, but it will be generational wealth.” 🔌💡
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
Wind and solar aren't politically popular, but they've been profitable for 2 Indiana counties
Building wind and solar energy capacity in rural America isn’t about politics, and it isn’t about climate change. It’s about money.
www.indystar.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Indy Star: The long view pays off for Randolph,IN "millions of dollars have poured into school districts, emergency services, bridge repairs, streets, sidewalks and parks." Andy Fahl, lifelong resident "I’ll be dead and gone, but it will be generational wealth.” 🔌💡
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
Reposted by Jorgy
This recent press release ticks all the boxes.
- New 50MW/200 MWh battery in Arizona
- Behind the meter!
- Helping to power a new electric arc furnace at a Nucor steel plant
Within five years, we are gonna see batteries everywhere.
#WesternGrid
#energysky
ir.ameresco.com/news-events/...
- New 50MW/200 MWh battery in Arizona
- Behind the meter!
- Helping to power a new electric arc furnace at a Nucor steel plant
Within five years, we are gonna see batteries everywhere.
#WesternGrid
#energysky
ir.ameresco.com/news-events/...
Ameresco Announces 50MW Battery Energy Storage Asset to Enhance Resiliency and Energy Security
The Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) is the largest behind-the-meter (BTM) project in Arizona and ranks as the fourth largest BTM installation…
ir.ameresco.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This recent press release ticks all the boxes.
- New 50MW/200 MWh battery in Arizona
- Behind the meter!
- Helping to power a new electric arc furnace at a Nucor steel plant
Within five years, we are gonna see batteries everywhere.
#WesternGrid
#energysky
ir.ameresco.com/news-events/...
- New 50MW/200 MWh battery in Arizona
- Behind the meter!
- Helping to power a new electric arc furnace at a Nucor steel plant
Within five years, we are gonna see batteries everywhere.
#WesternGrid
#energysky
ir.ameresco.com/news-events/...
@reuters.com news of California's solar/battery progress includes this gem: "California's electricity costs have climbed by less than the national average so far this year, posting a 1% rise compared to a 3.3% rise nationally" Natural gas prices up 37% over 2024. 🔌💡
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
California's solar and battery combo packs a transformational punch
Although overshadowed so far by booming data center demand and the U.S. government's gutting of clean energy policies, California's rapid scaling of solar farms and battery systems may yet emerge as 2025's most significant power story.
www.reuters.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
@reuters.com news of California's solar/battery progress includes this gem: "California's electricity costs have climbed by less than the national average so far this year, posting a 1% rise compared to a 3.3% rise nationally" Natural gas prices up 37% over 2024. 🔌💡
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
Vernon says YIMBY to new Datacenter. "The city of Vernon operates its own publicly owned utility, Vernon Public Utilities, along with its own power-generating plant... No additional power or water purchases are needed..."
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insideclimatenews.org/news/0910202...
The AI Data Center Boom Comes to Southeast LA - Inside Climate News
While nationwide, neighborhoods have fought to keep the electricity- and water-hungry data centers away, Vernon is welcoming another data center, seemingly without opposition.
insideclimatenews.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Vernon says YIMBY to new Datacenter. "The city of Vernon operates its own publicly owned utility, Vernon Public Utilities, along with its own power-generating plant... No additional power or water purchases are needed..."
insideclimatenews.org/news/0910202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0910202...