Posted on 09/22/2023 7:05:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Energy Department is announcing a $325 million investment in new battery types that can help turn solar and wind energy into 24-hour power it said Friday morning.
The funds will be distributed among 15 projects in 17 states and the Red Lake Nation, a Native American tribe based in Minnesota.
Here is some of what is being funded, through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021:
A project led by Xcel Energy in partnership with long-term battery manufacturer Form Energy will deploy two 100-megawatt battery systems at the site of coal plants that are closing in Becker, Minnesota and Pueblo, Colorado. There are new incentives for businesses that put in clean power installations at existing energy sites.
A project at California's Valley Children's Hospital in Madera, an underserved community, will install a battery system to add reliability for the acute care medical center facing potential power outages from wildfires, floods and heat waves. This one is led by the California Energy Commission in collaboration with Faraday Microgrids.
The Second Life Smart Systems initiative with sites in Georgia, California, South Carolina and Louisiana will use old, but still potent electric vehicle batteries for back-up power for senior centers, affordable housing complexes, and EV chargers.
Another project led by Rejoule, a battery diagnostics company, similarly will use retired EV batteries at three locations, Petaluma, California; Santa Fe, New Mexico and a worker training center at the Red Lake Nation, not far from the border with Canada.
Energy Undersecretary for Infrastructure David Crane said the announced projects will prove the technologies work at scale, help utilities plan for longer-term storage and start bringing down costs.
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Could they have possibly shoved more contemporary liberal buzzwords into a sentence?
* underserved community
* medical center
* wildfires, floods and heat waves
Yet they managed to leave out "racism" and "climate" even though all those buzzwords are proxies for race and climate.
Adding a battery system to improve reliability! LOL. Yeah, sure it will.
And how do they make this clean electric??
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With lots and lots of taxpayer funded subsidies! If you oppose it then you hate the Erf!
WHERE DOES ONE GET THIS ‘CLEAN ELECTRICTY’?..............
I know a guy, but it’s gonna cost you...
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