California's Distributed Battery Network Shows Its Power in Recent Test
1.) Ford announces it will sell a new electric pick-up truck for $30,000, using an entirely new construction approach. It will also be engineered to power a home for up to six days in a power outage. AND have a “lower cost of ownership over five years than a three-year-old used Tesla Model Y.”
2.) Matson, the shipping company that delivers most of Hawaii’s has ceased shipping EVs and plug-in hybrids to the state, citing the risk of battery fires.
3.) Tesla scores 3,022 MW/12,088 MWh Megapack battery storage order - at $2.7 bn – from Georgia Power.
4.) On July 29, at 7:00pm, thousands of Tesla Powerwalls and Sunrun home batteries discharged 535 MW of power for two hours into into California’s grid.
5.) NextEra Energy recent files request with FERC to reclaim interconnection rights originally transferred from Iowa’s shuttered 615 MW Duane Arnold nuclear power plant to a solar facility, as it looking to accelerate recommissioning of the plant.
6.) New York State plans to keep its upstate nuclear plants operating for two more decades, extending the Zero Emission Credit subsidy program for Constellation Energy’s four nuclear reactors past planned end date of 2029 for another 20 years. Estimates of associated costs range from $15bn to $30 bn.
7.) The municipal utility in the Village of Monroeville, Ohio to host 6-MW floating solar array, one of the largest floating solar installations in the state and the country, with commissioning by 2026.