"There has been limited information from Customs about what documentation is acceptable, and no one seems to know how to navigate UFLPA, regardless of the provenance of the polysilicon," Christian Roselund, senior policy analyst at consulting firm Clean Energy Associates, tells Axios.

New aggressive planning is needed to identify the long-duration storage technologies and find the land to grow enough resources to reach the Biden administration’s net zero emissions goals, a DOE national lab reports.

Spurred by the incentives outlined in the Inflation Reduction Act, more than 40 gigawatts of new solar-panel plants are in various stages of planning in the U.S., almost five times what the U.S. has now, said Andy Klump, chief executive of Clean Energy Associates.

As the cost of raw materials such as lithium climb, battery prices are being driven materially higher, on some accounts by 20% to 30%, rendering some projects uneconomical.

As the pace of solar installations quickens, developers are racing to find the best remaining sites and advance in interconnection queues. But what if the best investment opportunity is hidden in a site built a decade or more ago, which sells power at prices today’s developers can only dream of?

U.S. customs has detained shipments from some of the biggest solar-panel producers, as authorities enforce a new law targeting goods made with forced labor in China.

“In the last three years, you have seen major energy companies in the U.S. publicly declare net-zero” targets, said Arshad Mansoor, CEO of the Electric Power Research Institute. ​“I think that has been a sea change.”

By Hannah Badrei, Vice President of Energy Supply Advisory, Edison Energy

As climate impacts continue to ramp up, so too has the global response, particularly from the private sector.

Specifically, corporates have been addressing their Scope 2 emissions by entering into Virtual Power Purchase Agreements (VPPAs)—wholesale financial contracts to buy renewable electrons anywhere in the grid. Opportunities for companies to buy financially settled products such as VPPAs have been a critical step towards weaning society from our reliance on carbon fuels and reducing our collective carbon footprint.

Urban Electric Power, the energy storage startup utilizing a similar alkaline battery composition to that found in AA and other household batteries, and Pine Gate Renewables announced that the two companies have signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Urban Electric Power to supply an initial 4.6 GWh of its rechargeable zinc alkaline batteries over the next five years to Pine Gate. This will supply the developer’s growing pipeline of solar-coupled and standalone energy storage projects across the country.

Under the terms of the MOU, Urban’s batteries will be supplied to Pine Gate to provide a choice in storage technology for Pine Gate’s development partners and customers, giving said customers the freedom to choose a technology that meets long-term reliability, energy and capacity needs.

Tech giants and startups are chasing more precise data to make the grid cleaner by the hour — and asking governments and regulators to catch up.

To be able to meet the more discerning demands of corporate clean-energy buyers, developers such as Brookfield Renewables and Broad Reach Power and market-makers like Edison Energy are tapping the carbon-tracking capabilities of software and service providers including ClearTrace, REsurety and WattTime.