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U.S. Department of Energy announces Groundbreaking Hydro Prize winners

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 9, 2021 | Alternative Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has announced two winners of the Groundbreaking Hydro Prize, which challenged innovators to come up with new solutions to support hydropower project development by starting at square one —...

FERC should reject MISO extension request for electric storage resource

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 9, 2021 | Alternative Energy

On March 4, MISO filed a request to extend the deadline to implement a market participation model for electric storage resources at FERC. This new request moves the implementation date from June 2022 to March 2025. FERC should reject this request because the benefits...

The gas industry is trying to halt building electrification — let’s not let them succeed

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 9, 2021 | Alternative Energy

By Brynn Furey To repower our society with 100 percent renewable energy, we need to electrify our buildings. With electricity, we can hook our buildings up to a green grid that will eventually get all of its energy from the sun, the wind and the Earth. As they work to...

Global wind industry to deploy 1 TW of new capacity through 2030

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 8, 2021 | Alternative Energy

Research firm Wood Mackenzie says it anticipates the global wind power industry will install 1 TW of new capacity between 2021 and 2030. The world set a new record in wind installations in 2020 and saw a number of national and regional targets set for 2030,...

Virgin Group company to restore damaged 6.4-MW solar facility on St. Thomas

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 8, 2021 | Alternative Energy

BMR Energy, a Virgin Group company and developer, owner, and operator of clean energy projects in the Caribbean and Latin America, announced today that it is starting construction of the 6.4-megawatt (MWp) Donoe Solar farm on St. Thomas. The facility is expected to be...

Move over, corn and soybeans: The next biofuel source could be giant sea kelp

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 8, 2021 | Alternative Energy

 By Diane Kim, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Ignacio Navarrete, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and Jessica Dutton, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences The Research Brief is a short take about interesting...

Akuo acquires five small hydroelectric plants in Bulgaria

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 7, 2021 | Alternative Energy

Akuo, an independent renewable energy power producer and developer, announces that it has completed the acquisition of five small hydroelectric plants in Bulgaria with total installed capacity of 15.5 MW. Akuo purchased the plants, on the Iskar River near Svoghe, from...

Holy Cross Energy and Colorado Mountain College to benefit from new solar + storage project

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 7, 2021 | Alternative Energy

This week Ameresco announced a new partnership with Holy Cross Energy (HCE) for a solar and battery energy storage project, which will use land leased from Colorado Mountain College at its Spring Valley Campus. Holy Cross Energy signed a PPA with Ameresco which means...

Blue Ridge Energy is building an 11-MW solar array for members

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 7, 2021 | Alternative Energy

Blue Ridge Energy, a member-owned electric cooperative serving northwest North Carolina, said it picked Oriden LLC to develop an 11-MW solar project as part of its Brighter Future initiative. This project will provide a local generation source and allow Blue Ridge...

Energy jobs are key to economic recovery from the pandemic

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 7, 2021 | Alternative Energy

Energy workers are paid more, their jobs came back more quickly, and they have greater growth opportunities than almost any other sector, new report finds. Putting people to work in the energy industry will reap more benefits for the U.S. economy than putting people...

Room for renewables … If we do it right

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 7, 2021 | Alternative Energy

Last week, the Biden administration announced an ambitious plan to make long-needed improvements and repairs to America’s infrastructure. Among those recommendations are robust commitments to expand renewable energy use across the country. To address the enormous...

World adds record new renewable energy capacity in 2020

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 6, 2021 | Alternative Energy

The world added more than 260 GW of renewable energy capacity last year, exceeding expansion in 2019 by close to 50%, despite the economic slowdown that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)....

Construction begins on 500-MW Aktina plant, the largest solar facility in the state of Texas

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 6, 2021 | Alternative Energy

Project development team is made up of more than 30% women, an industry first. In southeastern Texas surrounded by farmland, Rosendin’s Renewable Energy Group (REG) has begun building the largest solar power project in the state. The 500-MWac/631-MWdc Aktina Renewable...

RWE Renewables adding 40-MW / 80-MWh storage to its 200-MW solar project in Georgia

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 6, 2021 | Alternative Energy

Wärtsilä announced that it received a contract to supply an engineered equipment delivery (EEQ) of a 40-MW / 80-MWh DC-coupled storage system to the 200-MW Hickory Park Solar project in Georgia, USA. Project owner RWE Renewables said with the addition of the...

Private infrastructure fund for clean hydrogen projects launched

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 6, 2021 | Alternative Energy

This week, Plug Power, Chart Industries, and Baker Hughes announced their intention to become cornerstone investors in the formation of the  FiveT Hydrogen Fund, a new clean-hydrogen-only private infrastructure fund dedicated to delivering clean hydrogen...

Japan’s JGC Holdings invests $40M into small modular nuclear reactor company NuScale Power

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 6, 2021 | Alternative Energy

In a recent interview with the Washington Post’s David Ignatius, energy experts Ernest Moniz and Lynn Good agreed that nuclear energy ought to play a role in the carbon-free energy future. Today, Fluor Corporation announced that JGC Holdings Corporation of Japan...

The community solar program in Illinois

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 5, 2021 | Alternative Energy

Originally published on ILSR.org In 2016, the Illinois Legislature passed the groundbreaking Future Energy Jobs Act (FEJA) with bipartisan support. The legislation includes strategies to make solar energy more accessible to low and moderate income communities through...

Build back better – with energy efficiency improvements

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 5, 2021 | Alternative Energy

“Climate action does not require economic sacrifice,” wrote Rachel Kyte, then CEO of the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (SEforAll) in September 2015. Many studies and cases show that climate action does indeed yield economic benefits (see the case of China)....

How ‘green’ are electric cars?

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 2, 2021 | Alternative Energy

With the ban of new petrol and diesel cars in place in the UK by 2030, sales of electric cars are expected to surge. Plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles accounted for more than 1 in 10 vehicle registrations in 2020, up from 1 in 30 in 2019, according to data...

GE supplying turbines for three Oklahoma wind power farms totaling 1.48 GW

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 2, 2021 | Alternative Energy

Wind project developer Invenergy has selected GE to provide a variety of turbines for three farms totaling 1.48 GW in Oklahoma. GE will deliver the turbines for the North Central Wind Energy facilities in north-central and northwest Oklahoma. Invenergy is developing...

Brookfield Renewable, Plug Power partner on hydropower-fueled hydrogen plant

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 1, 2021 | Alternative Energy

Plug Power Inc. and Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. announced plans to build a green hydrogen production plant, which would use 100% renewable energy from Brookfield Renewable’s 252-MW Holtwood hydroelectric facility. Green hydrogen from this facility will support...

Vestas supplying turbines for three wind farms in Greece

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 1, 2021 | Alternative Energy

Iberdrola announced this week that it is moving forward with the development of three wind farms in Greece and that it has signed an agreement with Vestas to supply a total of 102-MW of wind turbine capacity for its Askio II, Askio III and Rokani wind farms.  The...

Forget net-zero, businesses should be striving for true zero. Here’s why.

by Renewable Energy World | Apr 1, 2021 | Alternative Energy

Traceability is the next big frontier in demanding clean energy from source to socket, argues former IBM Global Smart Grid Systems Leader, Steve Hoy.   by Steve Hoy We track almost everything these days: packages, food, supply chains, even pets. But energy, especially...

AEP Energy signs long-term PPA for 80-MW Opdenergy solar project

by Renewable Energy World | Mar 31, 2021 | Alternative Energy

The competitive retail market subsidiary of American Electric Power is contracting with an independent firm which will develop an 80-MW solar plant in West Virginia. Under terms of the deal, Opdenergy will develop the solar project in Jefferson County. AEP Energy will...

Here’s a short summary of energy industry gains through Biden’s infrastructure plan

by Renewable Energy World | Mar 31, 2021 | Alternative Energy

Today in Pittsburgh, PA, US President Biden unveiled his new infrastructure plan for the country. The “American Jobs Plan” calls on Congress to pass legislation directing trillions of dollars of investment in rebuilding America. The plan is paired with the Made in...
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