SPP Notches Three New Wind Records Briefly Hits 73% of Generation Mix

Southwest Power Pool hits record wind; RWE and ThyssenKrupp team up on big green hydrogen project; floating a growing concept in solar; India's Adani wins record 8 GW bid

1) SPP set records in March and April for highest
percentage of wind in resource mix for both a single hour, 72% on 4/27, 1-2:00 AM, and single full-day, 62% on Saturday, 3/7. Last year, wind energy in SPP averaged 29% of total demand.

2) Two of Germany's largest polluters join ranks w/green H2 project. RWE will build a 100-MW H2 plant, from renewables, to supply steelmaker ThyssenKrupp, by 2025. They'll create 1.7 tons of H2 per hour, 70% of needed supply for planned furnace, making 50,000 tons of clean steel, enough for about 50K cars. Steelmaking generates roughly 7-9% of total emissions.

3) floating solar iscoming to the fore, as a potentially big resource. EDF, Equinor, Statkraft and EDP s announced they're working on a technical industry partnership
with consultant DNV GL. DNV estimates that inland man-made waters could host 4 TW of solar power globally,
w/3 GW already installed.

4) India's Adani Green Energy won $6 bn, 8 GW solar contract. (context: US expected to install roughly 24 GW in 2020).