This article digs into strategies developers can use to overcome permitting roadblocks. It looks at relationships and communication with localities/municipalities to build a sense of value upfront, overcoming typical community objections, tapping the agrivolatics and canopies models, employing useful local resources and associations, and more.

In this SPW podcast, the senior director of policy and regulatory affairs at Generac discusses the significance of energy storage in the contexts of grid stability, individual energy resilience, and the company’s (and the country’s) larger efforts to mitigate climate change. She touches on latest customer feedback re energy storage as well as explaining industry tech to people who know very little about it.

Remarkably, lithium-ion battery prices have hit a record low to arrive at $139/kWh, dropping 14% from 2022, says Bloomberg. Factors include increased production capacity across parts of the battery value chain and falling prices for raw materials and components.

EnergyWire offers a detailed investigation into the history (and particularly the last few years) of the federal govt’s efforts to modernize the grid and bring more renewables online. It looks at major transmission projects, key report findings, community response (pro and con), important players like Podesta and the last 3 presidents, and more.

Wärtsilä launched a new energy storage system with advanced safety features called the Quantum High Energy. It uses high-energy density battery cells, active dehumidification, and pre-fabricated firewalls. This comes out in addition to their flagship offering, the GridSolv Quantum energy storage system.

Acting chair of FERC announced that transmission planning is a chief priority – as seen with their latest proposed rule. He listed key elements as the changing resource mix and customer demand as well as advanced transmission tech and the benefits and beneficiaries of planned transmission facilities. His statement (in letter form) is in response to an October letter urging FERC to strengthen its proposed regional transmission planning and cost allocation rule.

Greentech digs into collaborating around making solar a circular market in this webinar with Inovateus and Fabtech. The four insiders discuss recycling as an EPC or developer, the actual recycling process (challenges and opportunities), industry resources, the problem of solar waste, the zero waste initiative, costs, the feasibility of a future resale market, and more. The video is below.