The Biden Administration Announces Seven Hydrogen Hubs Spread Throughout the U.S.
1.) The Biden Administration announces seven hydrogen hubs - spread throughout the U.S. - eligible to receive a total of $7 bn in subsidies.
2.) Florida Power & Light commences operations at its 25 MW Cavendish NextGen Hydrogen Hub, using solar energy and electrolyzers to make hydrogen for blending in small amounts with methane to power 1,723 MW Okeechobee plant.
3.) Vermont utility Green Mountain Power launches Zero Outages Initiative, including $250 million to underground and storm-harden lines, as well as an initial $30 mn to deploy energy storage through batteries and microgrids – eventually to every customer.
4.) California utility Pacific Gas and Electric Company unveils Microgrid Incentive Program and handbook, as part of statewide $200 million grant program – authorized by the California Public Utilities Commission to fund clean community microgrids in disadvantaged and vulnerable communities.
5.) Maryland utility Pepco and partner Housing Initiative Partnership break ground on a first-of-its-kind affordable homeownership development project with six “zero-energy” single-family homes, with rooftop solar and local battery energy storage. The homes will use modular construction, designed to meet the U.S. Department of Energy’s Zero Energy Ready Homes Program and the Passive House Institute’s PHIUS+ 2018 standard.
6.) DOE selects five generation and transmission cooperatives to receive grants totaling $30 mn - intended to prove out long-duration vanadium flow batteries in remote locations.
7.) California Governor Newsom signs a slew energy-related bills, including one to speed up interconnections of assets to transmission lines,, and another permitting highway rights-of-way to be utilized for solar, storage and transmission.
8.) BitCoin firm Standard Power plans to procure 1,848 MW of power - for two U.S. data center sites –with nuclear energy from 24 of NuScale’s small modular reactors. Plan is to be operational by 2029.