Wärtsilä 200 MW/500+ MWh Standalone Battery Storage Facility Switched On In Texas
Wärtsilä has completed a 200 MW / 500+ MWh stand-alone battery storage project in Texas that will help stabilize that state’s grid.
Wärtsilä has completed a 200 MW / 500+ MWh stand-alone battery storage project in Texas that will help stabilize that state’s grid.
Texas is well known for oil due to its large deposits of this resource, which were first discovered in the early 1900s. Since then, the state has been an integral part of the US oil industry and has become one of the world’s largest producers of crude oil, making it … [continued]
Woke or not, this Texas startup aims to launch mobile wind turbine tower factories all around the US.
The governors of Texas and Florida have declared war on Wall Street bankers who dare to consider environmental, social, and governance factors in making their business decisions. Companies committed to ESG favor protection of natural resources, human rights, health and safety, and community engagement. Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida … [continued]
Tesla has been looking to expand Gigafactory Texas since its opening, but the scope of the electric vehicle automaker’s plans hasn’t been exactly clear. Now, Tesla has filed official documents for multiple expansion projects, set to yield huge increases to production capacity, surface area and the reach of the factory’s … [continued]
Octopus Energy and Enphase have introduced a virtual power plant program in Texas that allows customers to leverage home solar power.
As we reported in October of 2022, IDRA had started shipping the humongous 9000-ton Cybertruck Giga Casting machine from its plant in Italy to the United States. Now, just yesterday, two semi trucks loaded with huge containers on their trailers were spotted at Giga Texas. Since this 9000-ton Giga Press … [continued]
Here at CleanTechnica, we’ve written a great number of articles about Vehicle-To-Grid (V2G) technology. It’s highly important not only to help stabilize the grid (thousands of EVs can help the grid keep up during unusual times using energy from times when the grid wasn’t so strained), but V2X (vehicle to … [continued]
Tesla has just hit another production milestone. Tesla Gigafactory Texas has reached a production rate of 3,000 Model Y (Model Ys?) per week. That’s 156,000 Model Y SUVs/crossovers per year from this new factory, but expect the number to keep climbing quickly and end well above 156,000 a year in … [continued]
The December Short Term Energy Output report from the EIA contains lots of good news and a few surprises for those living in Texas.