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Science and Technology:

¶ “Weird Looking Sails Bring Wind Energy Back To Cargo Ships” • Wind energy is coming back to the high seas, only not in the form of traditional sails. In the latest development, UK startup GT Wings is fitting a 124-meter cargo ship with its new AirWing onboard energy harvesting devices, leveraging experience in the world of F1 racing. [CleanTechnica]

Wind energy for shipping (Courtesy of GT Wings)

World:

¶ “JSW Energy Unit Bags A Contract From SECI For 230 MW Of Renewable Energy” • JSW Neo Energy Limited received a letter of award from Solar Energy Corporation of India for supply of 230 MW of clean power. JSW Energy said the contract increased its total locked-in generation capacity to 16.4 GW, which includes 2.3 GW of locked-in hybrid capacity. [MSN]

¶ “More Than Half Of All New Cars Sold In China In July Had A Plug” • Sales of plug-in hybrid and electric cars accounted for more than half of all new car sales in China in July. That’s up 37% from the same month last year. The only other country to post those sorts of numbers is Norway, and the reason in both cases is government policies. [CleanTechnica]

BYD Qin L (Courtesy of BYD)

¶ “Punjab Plans To Add 66 New Solar Power Plants” • The Punjab government is planning to set up 66 new solar power plants with each having 4 MW of capacity, Aman Arora, the state Minister of New and Renewable Energy Sources said. With this the Punjab government wants to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and cut the annual power subsidy. [Saur Energy International]

¶ “Climate Crisis Hinges On Green Power For The Poor, Study Shows” • A study of the world’s 72 most energy-poor nations, of which 44 are in Africa, shows that they will need to deploy about 5,000 GW of generation capacity by 2050. The people in these countries use an average of one-eleventh of what Americans do, but demand is growing quickly. [Moneyweb]

Solar power in Mali (Torsten Schreiber, CC-BY-SA 4.0, cropped)

¶ “Commonwealth Has Greenlighted Renewable Energy Zone Transmission Project” • The proposed 4.5-GW Central-West Orana Renewable Energy Zone transmission project, 350 km northwest of Sydney across a 20,000 sq km region, has secured federal government planning approval. Construction is expected to start in late 2024. [pv magazine Australia]

¶ “Energia Group Partnership With Microsoft Delivers First Onshore Wind Farm” • Irish utility Energia Group announced that the Drumlins Park wind farm is in commercial operation and a power purchase agreement with Microsoft has been signed. The 49-MW wind farm consists of eight GE Renewable Energy wind turbines. [Power Engineering International]

Wind turbine in transit (Richard Dorrell, CC-BY-SA 2.0, cropped)

¶ “Germany May Take Another Fifty Years To Find Its Final Repository For Waste From Shuttered Nuclear Power” • An Institute for Applied Ecology report, commissioned by the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management, said a decision on a site can be expected in 2074 at the earliest, Zeit Online reports. [RenewEconomy]

US:

¶ “Debby Live Updates: Flash Flooding Targets North Carolina, Virginia” • Debby, which weakened from a tropical storm to a tropical depression, slammed the Carolinas and Virginia with heavy rain. The heavy rain will target Maryland, Pennsylvania and western New York next. There’s a significant risk for flash flooding in those states. [ABC News]

Damage in North Carolina (Johnson524, public domain)

¶ “The Inflation Reduction Act: Saving American Households Money” • New data from the IRS show that more than 3.4 million American families have already claimed more than $8 billion in residential clean energy and home energy efficiency credits for their 2023 federal income taxes, the first year that the IRA tax credits were fully in effect. [CleanTechnica]

¶ “California Just Notched One of its Best Quarters Ever for New Zero-Emission Vehicle Sales” • In the second quarter of 2024, Californians purchased 118,181 zero-emission vehicles, 25.7% of all new vehicle sales in the state. That’s nearly 10,000 more than the first three months of the year and the second highest ever market share. [CleanTechnica]

Transmission lines (EnergyCo image)

¶ “Archer Unveils Los Angeles Air Mobility Network Ahead Of Major Worldwide Sporting Events” • Archer Aviation announced plans to launch a Los Angeles air mobility network. Passengers will be able to go to a nearby vertiport, or vertical take-off and landing location, and then fly in Archer’s Midnight aircraft to their destination, avoiding traffic. [CleanTechnica]

¶ “Vermont Utility Enters Purchase Agreement For More Than 54 GWh Of Hydropower In Connecticut” • FirstLight announced a PPA with Burlington Electric Department. The agreement says FirstLight will deliver Burlington, Vermont more than 54 GWh of hydropower from FirstLight’s Shepaug Generating Station in Connecticut. [Hydro Review]

Shepaug Generating Station (Courtesy of FirstLight)

¶ “US Developer Starts Up Bronx Battery” • Developer and independent power producer Catalyze has started operations at a battery system in the Bronx, New York. The asset is one of the first megawatt-scale storage projects to be completed and fully approved through New York City’s updated permitting process for battery energy storage. [reNews]

¶ “Batteries Step In As Coal Plant Trips Amid Heatwave And Near Record Demand In Texas” • The growing fleet of big batteries in Texas has stepped in to the market after another “always on” baseload power generator tripped in the middle of the evening peak, as the ongoing heatwaves pushed demand in the state towards record levels.[RenewEconomy]

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