WTI $109.9
Brent $113.3
The first test supply of Azerbaijani gas from Greece to Bulgaria via the Greece-Bulgaria connecting pipeline has started, BNR radio station reports.
US FERC grid stuff quicker
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this week issued a proposed role on solving “significant current backlogs” in grid interconnection queues.
www.tdworld.com
CIGRE is the big grid go to place
This International Conference on Large High Voltage Electric Systems will be the first face-to face Session in CIGRÉ’s second century.
www.tdworld.com
EU grid storage assessment
The European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) assesses Europe’s storage needs around 200GW by 2030 and 600GW by 2050.
www.smart-energy.com
H2 storage cave
HYBRIT’s pilot facility for underground fossil-free hydrogen storage has been inaugurated at Svartöberget in Luleå, Sweden.
www.smart-energy.com
EU take 2 for ETS, CBAM, etc
After a major setback last week, the European Parliament has one more shot to raise the ambition of the EU’s carbon market reform.
www.energymonitor.ai
Brexshit stuff in NI includes environment ...
An all-island environmental standard could make the Northern Ireland Protocol “much less problematic”, says the Republic of Ireland's energy minister.
www.energymonitor.ai
O&G tries for geothermal relevance
Drilling deep enough would mean terawatt-scale power, but geothermal energy’s development is underfunded, say industry experts.
www.energymonitor.ai
Insurers ....
Insurers should use the levers they have available to help decarbonise the global economy, lest disgruntled shareholders force their hands.
www.energymonitor.ai
German gas --- switch to coal
www.bmwk.de
Russian gas goes missing for Italy, not premeditated, honest
A June 19 Reuters story on Eni facing a sixth daily shortfall of Russian gas supplies was incorrectly sourced and has been corrected
www.reuters.com
China bakes, can you say global warming
Power consumption surged in Chinese provinces north of the Yangtze river due to warmer-than-normal weather, with regions like Henan, China's third-most populous province, being tested to meet record electricity demand.
www.reuters.com
Tesla fenced out in sensitice Chinese security zones
Tesla cars will be prohibited from entering the Chinese coastal district of Beidaihe, site of a secretive annual summer party leadership conclave, for at least two months starting on July 1, a local traffic police official told Reuters on Monday.
www.reuters.com
PPAs change
Power purchase agreements are ideal risk-management tools, given that electricity price volatility is the new normal and renewables uptake is a matter of urgency due to untenable Russian gas dependency. <b>pv magazine</b> sat down with Andy Sommer, team leader of fundamental analysis and...
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China at 361 GW solar cell capacity, world total is now 423 GW (I'm not sure I believe the world number as 3/4 are not believable in China)
Chinese PV Industry Brief: China’s solar cell capacity exceeds 361 GW
Getting legal details right can be tricksy
A Spanish court has ruled that Spain's largest operational PV project – the 500 MW Nuñez de Balboa solar plant – occupies a piece of land that was illegally expropriated. Project owner Iberdrola must now shut down a large portion of the installation.
www.pv-magazine.com
Another day another storage market prediction
Taiwanese analyst TrendForce said it expects global energy storage capacity to reach 362 GWh by 2025. China is set to overtake Europe and the United States is poised to become the world’s fastest-growing energy storage market.
www.pv-magazine.com
The way I read this, the flow battery technology pathway is deader than a dead thing
UK scientists have compared the performance of lithium-ion storage systems and vanadium redox flow batteries for a modeled 636 kW commercial PV system in southern California. They have found that both technologies, coupled with an oversized PV array, could achieve a levelized cost of electricity...
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LG are going to have awful financials etc from the recall of what looks like all the NMC pouch cells worldwide, cars and stationary. Here in UK/EU they are paying installers on the following basis
- €80 for data validation of who has what installed at which sites
- €150 to do the in-person software update visit which includes capping cell charge & discharge limits
- €450 to do the cell module replacement
Looks to me that this is about a year of production going into the recall programme, including all the Bolts, the various VW, Kia, the LG/SolarEdge, etc.