by Renewable Energy World | Feb 15, 2019 | Alternative Energy
This week, Canadian Solar said that it has won three solar power contracts with Alberta’s Ministry of Infrastructure, for a total of 94 megawatts (MWp) of solar power system in southeast Alberta, with an average contracted PPA price of 48.05 Canadian dollars [US...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 15, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The government of Tanzania has officially handed over the area around the 2,115-MW Rufiji hydro project to joint venture contractors Arab Contractors Company and Elsewedy Electric Company. This marks the start of project construction. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 15, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Residential energy storage provider sonnen batterie said today that Shell New Energies will be its new owner. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 15, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The world’s largest battery could soon be storing solar energy deep in the heart of Texas oil country. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 15, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The 2019 Sustainable Energy in America factbook was released this week by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BloombergNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE). The factbook highlights a number of key trends in sustainable and renewable energy growth,...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 15, 2019 | Alternative Energy
India’s first grid-scale battery energy storage system is now operational. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 14, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Global commissioning of onshore wind turbines declined 3 percent in 2018, partly due to a slowdown in India and Germany. Growth is expected to bounce back in 2019, with a 32 percent jump to 60 GW. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 14, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Opponents of the U.S. congressional Democrats’ Green New Deal point to Germany as an example of a country where similar policies have backfired. They should take a closer look; the U.S. could do well to imitate Europe’s largest economy. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 14, 2019 | Alternative Energy
This week, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that rather than investing in the Haynes, Harbor and Scattergood natural gas power plants to meet the requirements of a 2010 law related to a practice known as once through cooling, the Los Angeles Department of...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 14, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Details on the solar and battery storage components are still up in the air, but the wind farm itself was comfirmed to include 120 turbines manufactured by GE Renewable Energy Inc. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 13, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The first blade has been manufactured for the 714 MW offshore windfarm East Anglia One in the UK. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 12, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Sempra Renewables jointly owns all of part of seven wind farms and one battery installation in seven states. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 12, 2019 | Alternative Energy
A £10 million (US$12.9 million) fund will target support to achieving commercial deployment of tidal energy generation in Scottish waters through driving innovation and reduction in the cost of electricity generated, according to the Scottish Government. View Entire...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 12, 2019 | Alternative Energy
According to an analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), natural gas dominated new electrical generating capacity in 2018. However, renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower,...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 12, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The U.S. solar industry employs 242,343 workers as of 2018, a decline of nearly 8,000 jobs (3.2 percent) compared to 2017, according to the National Solar Jobs Census 2018 released today by The Solar Foundation. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 11, 2019 | Alternative Energy
For the first time in history, DistribuTECH – the largest annual event for the transmission and distribution industry – hosted 12 start-ups in New Orleans and gave them each a chance to pitch their companies to a panel of judges. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 11, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Last week, an organization called Electric Nation said that it had concluded data collection from more than 140,000 electric vehicle (EV) charging events in what it called the largest smart charging trial in the world. The trail lasted 18 months. View Entire Article...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 11, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Last week when utilities and other energy stakeholders were attending DistribuTECH in New Orleans, LA, a bit farther south, Puerto Rico’s utility PREPA was releasing a draft version of its 2019 integrated resource plan (IRP). View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 11, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Australian hydrogen infrastructure developer H2U confirmed today that it will use Baker Hughes NovaLT gas turbine generators at its South Australian Renewable Hydrogen and Ammonia Supply Chain Demonstrator in Port Lincoln. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 8, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Solar is breaking into a power market that’s long been the domain of big, conventional generators. A key reason: batteries. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 8, 2019 | Alternative Energy
The solar investment tax credit (ITC) is one of the most lucrative ways to reduce the investment costs of your solar installation, but in order to maximize this incentive, it’s important to include solar power in your 2019 planning. Follow this guide to ensure your...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 8, 2019 | Alternative Energy
This week Aggreko said it signed an agreement with Gold Fields Australia (Gold Fields) to design, build and operate a hybrid renewable-energy-plus-battery-storage system at the Granny Smith gold mine in Western Australia. The system, one of the world’s largest hybrid...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 8, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released a sweeping package of environmental measures Thursday that has pitted progressives in the House Democratic caucus against moderates over how far to go in pursuit of resetting the climate change debate. View Entire...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 7, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Over the past year, U.S. Wind got calls “every day” to sell a lease the energy company bought for $1 million in 2015 in its push to build a wind farm off the New Jersey coast. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Feb 6, 2019 | Alternative Energy
Fortune 500 brands and a range of other non-utility entities are catalyzing America’s growing demand for renewable energy by purchasing a record amount of wind power in 2018, according to a recent report by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). Consumer demand...
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