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In case you missed it: Five big solar stories in the news last week: 1. Hydrogen-powered data center planned for Texas 📣 California-based data center developer ECL is incorporating hydrogen fuel cells and battery storage into its projects to enable a completely self-contained generating capacity, even to the point of being grid free. 2. San Diego refuses call to ban battery storage projects ⚠ Battery blazes at Otay Mesa and Escondido prompted calls for a temporary halt on new sites, but the local authority decided instead to extend a requirement to include details of fire safety systems as part of planning applications. 3. Solar levelized cost of electricity 56% lower than lowest-cost fossil fuels The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Energy Agency shared that in 2010, solar was four times as expensive as the lowest-cost fossil fuel. Today, generating electricity from solar is less than half as expensive as the lowest-cost fossil alternative. 4. Reaching 45% solar generation would save Southeast utilities $20 billion/year Annual savings of $20 billion are possible across six Southeastern states by reaching 45% solar generation by 2035, according to a National Renewable Energy Laboratory study. 5. Solar-plus-storage is dominating future U.S. power grid A report from Berkeley Lab reveals a significant expansion of solar-plus-storage facilities in the U.S. power plant market, highlighting an evolution from frequency to arbitrage and curtailment mitigation markets. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/efnXetQy #solar #pv #bess #cleantech #renewableenergy #SolarInnovation #PortableSolar #CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy #SolarPower #Sustainability #GreenTech #SolarSolutions #EnergyEfficiency #FutureOfEnergy #OffGridPower #SolarDeployment #SolarTechnology #MobileEnergy #EcoFriendly #SunPowered #SolarFarms #SolarRevolution #EnergyIndependence