by Renewable Energy World | Aug 16, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Energy Vault, the creator of a new way to perform utility-scale energy storage, announced that SoftBank Vision Fund (Vision Fund) invested $110 million in its Series B funding round. Energy Vault will use the funds to accelerate global deployment of its technology,...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 16, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The renewable energy transition promises to reduce carbon emissions, but it’s happening at different speeds around the world. Read on for some key insights from BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2019, which provides a detailed road map to the future. View Entire...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 15, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), on behalf of the Australian government, has announced up to $40 million in funding towards the deployment of a pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project in South Australia. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 15, 2019 | Alternative Energy
A new battery made from affordable and durable materials generates energy from places where salt and fresh waters mingle. The technology could make coastal wastewater treatment plants energy-independent and carbon neutral. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 15, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The UK’s North West Hydrogen Alliance (NWHA) is calling for government investment in hydrogen projects to meet ambitious carbon reductions targets in Britain. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 14, 2019 | Alternative Energy
When two U.K. power plants shut down almost simultaneously in London’s first major blackout for a decade, it triggered a storm of questions about how to avoid another failure. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 14, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The electric utility industry has been buffeted by two recent trends that threaten to upend the profitability, and in some cases the future viability of, those companies that are slow to adapt to a new, rapidly changing landscape. Specifically, in the past decade, the...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 14, 2019 | Alternative Energy
It may be time to start building power plants in Texas again. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 13, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Many of us are somewhat familiar with what an electric utility does. Our house receives electricity, and we get a bill in the mail each month for it. Here in North Carolina, that bill is likely coming from Duke Energy. In other parts of the country it may be PG&E...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 13, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The national average price of wind power purchase agreements dropped to below 2 cents/kWh in 2018, according to the annual Wind Technologies Market Report released by the U.S. Department of Energy. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 13, 2019 | Alternative Energy
U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt has unveiled changes to the implementing regulations of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that Interior says is “designed to increase transparency and effectiveness and bring the administration of the Act into the 21st...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 13, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Coming on the heels of Gap’s announced 90-MW PPA with Enel Green Power, BloombergNEF released its 2H 2019 corporate energy market outlook in which it said that corporations signed contracts to purchase 8.6 GW of clean energy in 2019 through July, up from 7.2 GW at the...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 12, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Global apparel retailer Gap Inc. announced that it has signed a 90-MW virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) for the Aurora Wind Project with Enel Green Power North America, marking one of the largest offsite renewable energy contracts by an apparel retailer. View...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 12, 2019 | Alternative Energy
According to Vattenfall, the project will help provide less pronounced energy peaks and an overall more efficient use of energy infrastructure View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 12, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The Trump administration cast the fate of the nation’s first major offshore wind farm into doubt by extending an environmental review for the $2.8 billion Vineyard Wind project off Massachusetts. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 9, 2019 | Alternative Energy
This week, San José’s Community Choice Aggregator (CCA) which is called San José Clean Energy (SJCE) and EDP Renewables SA (EDPR), through its fully owned subsidiary EDP Renewables North America LLC (EDPR NA), signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for 100...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 9, 2019 | Alternative Energy
South Australian energy storage company 1414 Degrees and Stone & Wood Brewing Company have agreed to undertake a feasibility study for the integration of 1414 Degrees’ electrically charged Thermal Energy Storage System (TESS-IND). View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 8, 2019 | Alternative Energy
A report recently released by the U.S. Department of Energy defines and evaluates cost and performance parameters of six battery energy storage technologies (BESS) and four non-BESS storage technologies. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 8, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Of all the efforts to break up utility monopolies in the U.S., the one unfolding in Arizona may be the most important to watch. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 8, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The four proposed central Virginia lithium-ion projects will cost about $33 million to build and offer 5-years’ worth of test data, according to Dominion. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 7, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The round was led by Ecosystem Integrity Fund with participation from Equinor Energy Ventures and Evergy Ventures View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 7, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released its Short Term Energy Outlook for 2019 and we have summarized the key highlights for you below. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 7, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Dustin Yellin, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist whose intricate 3D photomontages adorn the likes of New York’s Lincoln Center, wants to draw your gaze to climate change. Not in a subtle way, either. He plans to stand an oil supertanker on its end in the ground—a...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 7, 2019 | Alternative Energy
California, long a progressive leader on renewable energy and climate change mitigation, has neglected a key market segment for renewable energy: the “community-scale,” or “wholesale distributed generation” (DG), market. This market segment is defined as projects...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 6, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Dominion executives said in an interview this week that battery storage has the potential to improve the resiliency of the electrical grid View Entire Article on...
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