December 26 NEC Energy News
¶ “Cautious Optimism Surrounds Plans For The World’s First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant” • Commonwealth Fusion Systems hopes to have a fusion power plant running in the next few years. Fusion power plants have never been used because the process is extremely difficult. In business and scientific communities, there is cautious hope of getting it going. [The Week]
¶ “Japan To Maximize Nuclear Power In Clean-Energy Push As Electricity Demand Grows” • A government-commissioned panel of experts largely supported Japan’s new energy policy for the next few years. The policy calls for bolstering renewables up to half of electricity needs by 2040 while maximizing the use of nuclear power. [ABC News]
¶ “Acme Solar Secures Financing For 300-MW Solar-Wind Hybrid Project, Wins 300-MW PV Project” • Acme Solar has announced that a subsidy has secured ₹1,988 crore ($233 million) in loan financing from Power Finance Corp to fund development and construction of a 300-MW solar-wind hybrid renewable energy project. [pv magazine India]
¶ “Ameren Missouri Brings 500 MW Of Solar Online” • Ameren Missouri announced that after investing about $950 million, 500 MW of solar capacity are online as three facilities. They are the 200-MW Huck Finn Renewable Energy Center, the 150-MW Boomtown REC, and the 150-MW Cass County REC. AM has a pipeline of other resources. [Power Engineering]
¶ “How Agrivoltaics Is Marrying Food Production With Green Energy” • People say you can’t graze cattle on solar farms, but the CEO of Calgary-based Sun Cycle Farms believes doubters were proven wrong by a pilot project grazing cattle inside a grid-tied solar farm. He said it proves that livestock production and renewable energy can co-exist. [CTV News Calgary]
¶ “Diversity In Energy Generation And Storage” • Kern County is a renewable energy hub of California and a key to reaching its clean energy goals. Long a producer of power from wind, it has recently added large-scale solar projects. One farm, Eland will produce 7% of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s electricity. [The Santa Barbara Independent]
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