by Renewable Energy World | Aug 14, 2018 | Alternative Energy
Active wildfires continue to burn across the U.S. state of California, most of them still only partially contained. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 14, 2018 | Alternative Energy
The current heatwave in Western Europe is also contributing to a ‘wind drought,’ negatively impacting wind farm operators across the region, which includes the U.K., France, Spain, Germany and much of Scandinavia. Meanwhile, solar power plant operators are seeing...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 14, 2018 | Alternative Energy
On Aug 14, Tesla announced that its Board of Directors formed a special committee comprised of three independent directors to act on behalf of the company in connection with Elon Musk’s previously announced consideration of a transaction to take the company private....
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 14, 2018 | Alternative Energy
Cheap drones are poised to boost output and cut operating expenses for the energy industry. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 14, 2018 | Alternative Energy
Some of the latest battery technologies may become obsolete before reaching the market because of the breakneck pace of advances in the industry. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 13, 2018 | Alternative Energy
In response to the population decline of pollinating insects, such as wild bees and monarch butterflies, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are investigating ways to use “pollinator-friendly solar power.” View Entire...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 13, 2018 | Alternative Energy
Last week Peak Power announced that it had agreed to install up to 2.35 MW / 4.7 MWh of energy storage capacity at Bloor Islington Place in Toronto. Starlight Investments, a real estate and asset management company, owns the building. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 13, 2018 | Alternative Energy
Chris Gwynne stands in a ravine below a towering dam in the Tasmanian wilderness and ponders whether the giant concrete structure can withstand the politics that may keep it from playing a key role in Australia’s clean energy future. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 13, 2018 | Alternative Energy
It was California’s biggest fire yet. In late July and August, wildfires devastated an area north of San Francisco far bigger than New York City, destroying more than 100 homes and injuring 2 fire fighters. It’s just one in a rash of fast-spreading blazes that have...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 13, 2018 | Alternative Energy
In an Australian first, Origin will install a 4-MW/4-MWh grid scale battery at its Mt Stuart Power Station in Townsville. Mt Stuart Power Station is a 414-MW open cycle gas power station, designed to supply electricity at times of peak demand and is the largest such...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 12, 2018 | Alternative Energy
About 140 students, teachers, administrators, and neighboring community members this week celebrated the installation of a solar plus storage solution at the SU Manuel Ortiz school in the Yabucoa district of Puerto Rico, one of the regions hardest hit by Hurricane...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 10, 2018 | Alternative Energy
Canadian provincial utility Ontario Power Generation has signed a purchase and sale agreement to acquire 100% of the equity of Eagle Creek Renewable Energy LLC in the U.S. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 10, 2018 | Alternative Energy
While this week’s episode of Tesla Inc. has left us with several cliffhangers, it did show one thing: just how far the company has veered from Elon Musk’s secret “Master Plan” of 2006. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 10, 2018 | Alternative Energy
Ãrsted signed up Siemens Gamesa to supply turbines for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project that Dominion has planned since 2011. The wind farm 27 miles off the Virginia coast would the first such project in the U.S. mid-Atlantic. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 10, 2018 | Alternative Energy
Xcel Energy recently celebrated the groundbreaking of its 150-MW Foxtail Wind project in Fargo, North Dakota, U.S. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 9, 2018 | Alternative Energy
LOGAN, Utah – Made In Space, the Silicon Valley startup focused on additive manufacturing in orbit, plans to boost the power available to small satellites with Archinaut, the company’s in-space manufacturing and assembling technology. “Small...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 9, 2018 | Alternative Energy
South America’s only solar-thermal project is resuming construction just as the technology it uses risks being overtaken by a cheaper alternative. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 9, 2018 | Alternative Energy
Trump administration officials pushed to highlight the value of coal-fired power plants in a government report on the “bomb cyclone” that plunged the Eastern U.S. into single-digit temperatures last January. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 9, 2018 | Alternative Energy
Reparations for the worst-ever U.S. natural gas leak will involve cow-dung duty. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 9, 2018 | Alternative Energy
Michigan is moving ahead of other Midwest states as its two largest utilities propose a combined $20.5 million investment in electric vehicle infrastructure. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 9, 2018 | Alternative Energy
Ãrsted announced it is buying 100 percent of Lincoln Clean Energy (LCE) for about $580 million (500 million €) from owner I Squared Capital. Since I Squared acquired the firm in 2015, LCE has built or is completing than 800 MW in onshore wind generation capacity....
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 8, 2018 | Alternative Energy
Hydro had the highest average construction cost per kilowatt of any generating technology installed in 2016, according to recently released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. View Entire Article on...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 8, 2018 | Alternative Energy
“Japan will present hydrogen to the rest of the world as a new energy choice and will lead global efforts for establishing a carbon-free society taking advantage of Japan’s strong points,” read a statement from Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as it...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 8, 2018 | Alternative Energy
A report released this month, which was commissioned by the McKnight Foundation, revealed analysis that showed Minnesota could retire the state’s coal plants, build no additional natural gas plants, and still meet energy demands reliably through clean and renewable...
by Renewable Energy World | Aug 8, 2018 | Alternative Energy
A clean-power company owned by billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Group has taken over a Caribbean solar farm that was damaged last year by Hurricane Maria. View Entire Article on...
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