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Heading into 2022, energy experts debated the speed and timing of a return to "normal" energy demand following a tumultuous 2020–2021 as the world responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. As vaccines became widely available in the first half of 2021, optimism grew in the energy economy as demand quickly headed back to pre-pandemic levels. In many cases, energy demand increased faster than supply, causing significant run-ups in prices, as well as supply chain constraints. These problems were compounded when Russia invaded Ukraine causing more disruption to energy supplies. Overall, the higher energy prices and the greater demand spurred increases in local drilling and production of oil and natural gas. In addition, the federal administration maintains an emphasis on a transition to carbon-neutral energy sources, most acutely seen in the electric utility sector with a continued shift away from coal to more renewable sources.

Annual report of Utah Clean Energy. Utah Clean Energy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

The Governor's Monthly News Conference, an unedited exchange between reporters and Governor Spencer Cox. Governor Cox talks back to school, citing resources for suicide prevention, including the Safe UT app and the 988 crisis line. Cox said he is watching the LGBTQ conversion therapy hearing closely and will engage if necessary. He also addressed the Utah Lake Restoration project saying he's a huge proponent of improving the lake and dredging but hasn't given the project an endorsement yet.

Annual report of Utah Clean Energy. Utah Clean Energy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

The Governor's Monthly News Conference, an unedited exchange between reporters and Governor Spencer Cox. Governor Cox talks back to school, citing resources for suicide prevention, including the Safe UT app and the 988 crisis line. Cox said he is watching the LGBTQ conversion therapy hearing closely and will engage if necessary. He also addressed the Utah Lake Restoration project saying he's a huge proponent of improving the lake and dredging but hasn't given the project an endorsement yet.

Annual report of Utah Clean Energy. Utah Clean Energy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

Annual report of Utah Clean Energy. Utah Clean Energy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

Utah's diverse energy industry plays a significant role in the state's economy. It encompasses traditional fossil fuels and renewable resources. The mining sector produces crude oil, natural gas, and coal. Power producers generate electricity from hydropower, geothermal, solar, wind, and biomass resources and distribute it within the state and across the western U.S. Five refineries process crude oil from Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Canada, and Utah has the only licensed and operating uranium mill in the country. Dozens of firms manufacture machinery for mining and the oil and gas fields as well as turbines, generators, transformers, and other electrical equipment. There are more than 60 petroleum wholesalers and 30 fuel dealers across the state. Solar installation and energy efficiency activities support thousands of jobs.

Utah's diverse energy industry plays a significant role in the state's economy. It encompasses traditional fossil fuels and renewable resources. The mining sector produces crude oil, natural gas, and coal. Power producers generate electricity from hydropower, geothermal, solar, wind, and biomass resources and distribute it within the state and across the western U.S. Five refineries process crude oil from Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Canada, and Utah has the only licensed and operating uranium mill in the country. Dozens of firms manufacture machinery for mining and the oil and gas fields as well as turbines, generators, transformers, and other electrical equipment. There are more than 60 petroleum wholesalers and 30 fuel dealers across the state. Solar installation and energy efficiency activities support thousands of jobs.

For the solar energy industry to increase its competitiveness, there is a global drive to lower the cost of solar-generated electricity. Photovoltaic (PV) module assembly is material-demanding, and the cover glass constitutes a significant proportion of the cost. Currently, 3-mm-thick glass is the predominant cover material for PV modules, accounting for 10%–25% of the total cost. Here, we review the state-of-the-art of cover glasses for PV modules and present our recent results for improvement of the glass. These improvements were demonstrated in terms of mechanical, chemical and optical properties by optimizing the glass composition, including addition of novel dopants, to produce cover glasses that can provide (i) enhanced UV protection of polymeric PV module components, potentially increasing module service lifetimes; (ii) re-emission of a proportion of the absorbed UV photon energy as visible photons capable of being absorbed by the solar cells, thereby increasing PV module efficiencies and (iii) successful laboratory-scale demonstration of proof of concept, with increases of 1%–6% in Isc and 1%–8% in Ipm. Improvements in both chemical and crack resistance of the cover glass were also achieved through modest chemical reformulation, highlighting what may be achievable within existing manufacturing technology constraints. © 2020 The Authors.

For the solar energy industry to increase its competitiveness, there is a global drive to lower the cost of solar-generated electricity. Photovoltaic (PV) module assembly is material-demanding, and the cover glass constitutes a significant proportion of the cost. Currently, 3-mm-thick glass is the predominant cover material for PV modules, accounting for 10%–25% of the total cost. Here, we review the state-of-the-art of cover glasses for PV modules and present our recent results for improvement of the glass. These improvements were demonstrated in terms of mechanical, chemical and optical properties by optimizing the glass composition, including addition of novel dopants, to produce cover glasses that can provide (i) enhanced UV protection of polymeric PV module components, potentially increasing module service lifetimes; (ii) re-emission of a proportion of the absorbed UV photon energy as visible photons capable of being absorbed by the solar cells, thereby increasing PV module efficiencies and (iii) successful laboratory-scale demonstration of proof of concept, with increases of 1%–6% in Isc and 1%–8% in Ipm. Improvements in both chemical and crack resistance of the cover glass were also achieved through modest chemical reformulation, highlighting what may be achievable within existing manufacturing technology constraints. © 2020 The Authors.

Learn more about how solar powers Camp Williams. Produced by the National Energy Foundation on behalf of the Governor's Office of Energy Development.

A Bright Future: 10 Year Solar Deployment Plan for Utah is rooted in years of ongoing collaborative stakeholder engagement related to solar market development. Powering Our Future—Solar Salt Lake Implementation Plan was published in 2010 with support from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar America Cities initiative. Powering Our Future was a first-of-its-kind tool to help elected officials, government agencies, and affiliated partners identify and adopt proven strategies for transforming Utah's solar market. Six years later, many of the strategies identified in Powering Our Future have been implemented and many market barriers have been overcome. Utah's challenge for the future is to ensure continued market growth, improved market certainty for the solar industry, and fairness for consumers and utilities. The solar industry, regulators, and utilities must work together to address new topic areas related to emerging solar technologies and prepare for the continued evolution of the solar market. The 10 Year Solar Deployment Plan for Utah provides a clear path to overcome these challenges and guide the development of a sustainable and robust solar market across Utah.

The growing frequency of extreme weather events and the very real threat of a significant earthquake in Utah drives the need for resilient backup power systems. A self-generation power system comprised of solar photovoltaics coupled with battery storage not only provides robust backup power in the event of an emergency but also helps manage day-to-day energy usage. The versatility and scalability of solar and storage and the ability to combine a solar and storage system with traditional backup generators makes solar and storage an ideal solution for critical facilities that require uninterrupted power supply such as hospitals, communication centers, radio stations, and community emergency shelters. The cost to install solar has fallen about 75% since 2006, and solar installations are an increasingly popular way to save money on utility bills. Battery storage costs have undergone similar price declines, falling by more than 50% since 2010, making solar with storage an increasingly viable solution for energy management in addition to emergency power.3 Future cost declines are expected to make commercial and industrial use of batteries for energy storage a cost-effective choice in certain markets within 3-5 years, amplifying the advantages of solar energy and making solar and storage systems an attractive economic offering in these markets.

A Bright Future: 10 Year Solar Deployment Plan for Utah is rooted in years of ongoing collaborative stakeholder engagement related to solar market development. Powering Our Future—Solar Salt Lake Implementation Plan was published in 2010 with support from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar America Cities initiative. Powering Our Future was a first-of-its-kind tool to help elected officials, government agencies, and affiliated partners identify and adopt proven strategies for transforming Utah's solar market. Six years later, many of the strategies identified in Powering Our Future have been implemented and many market barriers have been overcome. Utah's challenge for the future is to ensure continued market growth, improved market certainty for the solar industry, and fairness for consumers and utilities. The solar industry, regulators, and utilities must work together to address new topic areas related to emerging solar technologies and prepare for the continued evolution of the solar market. The 10 Year Solar Deployment Plan for Utah provides a clear path to overcome these challenges and guide the development of a sustainable and robust solar market across Utah.

Learn more about how solar powers Camp Williams. Produced by the National Energy Foundation on behalf of the Governor's Office of Energy Development.

Este proyecto tiene como objetivo construir una central eléctrica respetuosa con el medio ambiente, transformando la energía eléctrica e inyectando ésta directamente a la red eléctrica. Esta central eléctrica fotovoltaica o parque solar, será diseñada para una capacidad de producción de 500kW y podrá rendir hasta 588kW de pico. Ya que se pretende obtener el mayor rendimiento posible, se realizará un diseño en las condiciones más óptimas y que, además, será respetuoso con el medio ambiente. Obteniendo así una instalación energéticamente eficiente. La instalación de 500kW evacuará la energía producida a la red por un mismo punto, según se establece en la Instrucción 5/2006 sobre evacuación de energía de instalaciones fotovoltaicas individuales compartiendo infraestructuras de interconexión, con el fin de poder vender íntegramente toda la energía producida y acogerse a las máximas ventajas económicas disponibles para este tipo de instalaciones. Al mismo tiempo esta instalación contribuirá con el objetivo común, conseguir que en el año 2010las fuentes de energía renovable cubran, al menos, el 12% del total de la demanda energética en España, según se establece en la Ley 54/1997, 27 de noviembre y por lo tanto estaremos más cerca de conseguir la sostenibilidad energética.

Economic Development Corporation of Utah presentation about energy and natural resources companies from March 16, 2010.

Economic Development Corporation of Utah presentation about energy and natural resources companies from March 16, 2010.

PFC del programa Erasmus elaborat a Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tarbes, Solarcom is a French company that is dedicated to supply, through solar energy, remote telecommunication devices such as repeaters of fiber optics or phone antennas. The project is commissioned by Solarcom for the EPS work team from ENIT, and consists in realize the design of a voltage regulator, based on maximum power point tracking algorithms (MPPT), to control the operating point of the power source formed by an array of photovoltaic panels, thus improving their performance and make effective control over the method and charge status of the battery. First is done a management, is explained in the first chapter, how is managed the different resources during the time to finish the project in the deadline. In the second chapter is made a little State of art to know how is the actual market in this area ant to decide the specifications and price target. To make the design of the device is necessary to model the physical environment in which the voltage regulator work to validate step by step, through simulation, different algorithms and components which will be based regulator. The software chosen to realize the mathematical models of the different physical devices on which operation of voltage regulator depends is MATLAB 2010b, the models were made by modeling and simulation tool SIMULINK. The hardware design of the device is implemented in Solid Works, and in this chapter is explained every component that is inside the device, how it function and why it’s selected. In this chapter is showed all necessary to build it physically. In the software design chapter is explained every function used to make the regulator functional and implemented it in microcontroller, the code is made in C++ language by Code Warrior for Mororolla.

El presente proyecto tiene por objeto el diseño e implantación de un Parque Fotovoltaico, el cual se ubicará en la parcela 308, en el término municipal de Xerta en la comarca del Baix Ebre y tendrá una superficie de 24.471 m² aproximadamente y orientada al Sur. El Parque Fotovoltaico aprovechara una fuente de energía renovable e inagotable como son los rayos del sol, para producir energía eléctrica. Este estará conectado a la red eléctrica existente y la conexión se realizará en Media Tensión debido a la potencia nominal tan elevada del parque fotovoltaico. La finalidad del parque fotovoltaico es generar el máximo de energía eléctrica con el objetivo de inyectarla a la red eléctrica y maximizar el beneficio económico por su venta, estará regulado en el Real Decreto 1578/2008 en la que se establece las condiciones de explotación para los productores de energía eléctrica en régimen especial. Además se mejorará el sistema eléctrico de distribución, descentralizándose su generación y disminuyendo las pérdidas de transporte, y permitirá la reducción de los gases de efecto invernadero. En el proyecto se realizará un estudio, para determinar la manera de maximizar la superficie que disponemos, con los diferentes tipos de instalaciones que nos ofrece el mercado actual, ya sean, estructura fija, seguidores de un eje acimutal o seguidores de dos ejes. Una vez justificada la solución adoptada, el siguiente paso es realizar es la elección de todos los elementos del generador fotovoltaico, los módulos fotovoltaicos, los inversores y el tipo de estructura. Con los datos obtenidos en sendos estudios, diseñaremos todos los elementos necesarios para poder realizar la puesta en marcha del Parque Fotovoltaico, que abarca la configuración fotovoltaica, la instalación eléctrica tanto en Media Tensión como en Baja Tensión y la línea de evacuación de la instalación. Por último, se realizará un estudio ambiental y económico-social, que garanticen la viabilidad económica y la sostenibilidad

Beverly Turner Jordan was born in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1937. She received her master's degree in architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1976. She served as the administrative vice-president of ERA Georgia, Inc. from 1978 thru 1983. She then trained as a paralegal, and was with L.A. Paulk, P.C. until 1990. During her career, Jordan was also employed as an interior decorator and owned a decorating franchise. As of 1995,Jordan was retired and writing and was operations vice president for the Unitarian Universalist Metro Atlanta North.

This webinar, provided by the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center (CREATE) includes an overview of the Solar Foundation's Solar Training Network. The webinar is presented by Megan Howes, Program Coordinator at the Solar Foundation. The presentation provides information on the Solar Foundation, including Research, Capacity Building, and Industry Leadership. The video runs 46:58 minutes in length and includes a full transcript as well as a PDF of the presentation slides.Below is a list of the files included in the .zip attachment. The size of each file is included in parenthesis. The Solar Training Network - Powerful Connections, Powerful Careers Webinar (5 files, 215.9 MB)The Solar Training Network - Positive Connections, Powerful Careers (GMT20181116-163707_CREATE-Sol_1920x1080.mp4 191.2 MB)(GMT20181116-163707_CREATE-Sol.m4a 19.2 MB)(GMT20181116-163707_CREATE-Sol.transcript.vtt 54 KB)The Solar Training Network - Positive Connections, Powerful Careers (solar-training-ntrk-webinar-11-16.pdf 5.5 MB)

Beverly Turner Jordan was born in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1937. She received her master's degree in architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1976. She served as the administrative vice-president of ERA Georgia, Inc. from 1978 thru 1983. She then trained as a paralegal, and was with L.A. Paulk, P.C. until 1990. During her career, Jordan was also employed as an interior decorator and owned a decorating franchise. As of 1995,Jordan was retired and writing and was operations vice president for the Unitarian Universalist Metro Atlanta North.