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Hurricane Ida Weakens to Tropical Storm After Knocking Out Power to New Orleans NBC News

Biden Administration Expands Cybersecurity Initiative Piloted by Electric Sector Utility Dive

Colonial Pipeline Temporarily Shuts Down Part of NC Pipeline After Ida Makes Landfall The Charlotte Observer

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Publications in the OurEnergyLibrary

How Are We Going to Build All That Clean Energy Infrastructure? Clean Air Task Force, Niskanen Center August 23, 2021

New Energy Outlook 2021 BloombergNEF August 27, 2021

Concrete Solutions Guide--- Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) August 27, 2021

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Solar Energy Industries Association: SolarAPP+ and Installers: How to Help When: Tuesday, August 31, 2:00-3:00 p.m. Eastern Time REBA: EPEAT 101: Using Ecolabels to Decarbonize the Solar Industry When: Wednesday, September 1, 1:00-2:00 p.m. Eastern Time Green Power Purchasing: US City & Corporate Clean Energy Procurement in 2020 When: Wednesday, September 1, 1:00-2:00 p.m. Eastern Time NASEM: Understanding the Societal Challenges Facing Nuclear Power When: Wednesday-Friday, September 1-3

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Facts & Figures U.S. Large-Scale Battery Storage Capacity Up 35% in 2020, Rapid Growth Set to Continue Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, "Today in Energy," August 20, 2021, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, December 2020. "The United States continued a trend of significant growth in large-scale battery storage capacity in 2020, when year-end U.S. battery power capacity reached 1,650 megawatts (MW). According to our report, Battery Storage in the United States: An Update on Market Trends, U.S. battery power capacity grew by 35% in 2020 and has tripled in the last five years. The trend is expected to continue; utilities have reported plans to install over 10,000 MW of additional large-scale battery power capacity in the United States from 2021 to 2023—10 times the capacity in 2019."

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