Sol Systems launches solar PPA + community investment fund with Microsoft
Sol Systems, a national solar energy company focused on coupling renewable energy procurement and investment with community impact, has announced its first set of investments associated with its Master Power Purchase and Community Impact Agreement with...
Ag groups react to Supreme Court decision to hear WOTUS appeal
Agricultural groups are praising Monday’s surprise announcement from the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal in a Waters of the U.S. case. Scott Yager with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says the Supreme Court announcing it...
Partners advance FTM energy storage project in New York
The project includes six FTM sites in Staten Island, New York. ...
Solar News
Algonquin solar projects in Texas and New Mexico to use Talesun bifacial modules
Utility-scale solar developer Algonquin Power has selected Chinese panel manufacturer Talesun Solar as the bifacial panel supplier for 57 MW of projects in New Mexico and Texas. The United States is one of Talesun’s key solar market...
2022 Utility Dive Outlook
2022 is poised to be another critical year in the U.S. energy transition, with significant opportunities and challenges for building a cleaner, more secure and more reliable electric power system. In the stories below, Utility Dive...
New York regulators tap ConEdison to help interconnect up to 6 GW of offshore wind
The request to design an interconnection hub comes as the federal government announced a February auction of leasing areas in the New York Bight that could support up to 7 GW of offshore wind....
EDP Renewables repowers wind farm with 2 MW turbines
EDP Renewables North America finished a repowering project at the Blue Canyon II Wind Farm in Carnegie, Oklahoma. ...
Nearly a year after Winter Storm Uri’s devastation, where are we on grid resilience?
More comprehensive assessments of the benefits of additional transmission between various U.S. regions could result in greater grid resilience and reliability, the authors write....
Agriculture News
Labor, trucking issues could create logistical challenges for input delivery
A study from the American Trucking Association says the industry is short nearly 80,000 truck drivers and a fertilizer supplier says that creates logistical challenges for delivery. Paul Gerdes with CHS tells Brownfield the shortage creates a...
Port congestion, shipping container issues to persist through the year
The head of the Soy Transportation Coalition doesn’t expect West Coast port congestion and shipping container shortages to clear up anytime soon. Mike Steenhoek tells Brownfield weather, labor and pandemic-related challenges will likely remain through 2022. “We’re...
Stine Seed president says company “could not have done it better” in response to January cyberattack
Several agribusinesses have suffered cyberattacks in recent months including the nation’s largest private seed company, Stine Seed. President Myron Stine tells Brownfield there was a sophisticated cyberattack on their data systems January 9th. “We had never gone through...
Fertilizer prices will come down soon, but how much?
Some fertilizer experts expect prices to mellow soon, but the question is how much? Josh Linville, Director of Fertilizer with StoneX tells Brownfield he expects fertilizer prices to come back down in late spring. “We will see...
Infrastructure law funds high-priority locks
The US Army Corps of Engineers has allocated funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law for long-awaited upgrades to locks and dams on the Upper Mississippi River system. “As we know, time is money,” says Mike Steenhoek...
