Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | February 04, 2018: When Elon Musk offered to build what would be the largest grid storage battery installation in the world in South Australia last year, he set off a chain of events that may have implications for the entire world. In a Read more
Clean Technica | By: Owen Agnew | February 02, 2018: More than four months after Hurricane Maria tore across Puerto Rico, over 450,000 people are still without power. For critical facilities like hospitals, the lack of electricity has meant cutting services and relying on generators until power is restored. Nexus Read more
Clean Technica | By: The Beam | February 02, 2018: A New York-based energy project built on blockchain is currently attempting to create peer-to-peer marketplaces for distributed energy. As the global energy market is still trapped in a previous era and needs an urgent and thorough redesign, the Brooklyn Microgrid Read more
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | February 02, 2018: Tesla has booked pre-orders for its all-electric Semi heavy duty trucks from at least 9 major corporations. Now, some of those companies are planning how they will charge those trucks once they arrive. In particular, Anheuser Busch and United Parcel Read more
Clean Technica | By: Guest Contributor | February 02, 2018: Here’s the deal: The Trump Administration is working to repeal (and possibly replace) America’s Clean Power Plan. Backed by powerful oil, coal, and gas companies, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt claims the original Clean Power Plan design overstepped Read more
Clean Technica | By: Sophie Vorrath | February 02, 2018: Extraordinary figures continue to roll in from the year that was for renewable energy in Australia, but easily the most outstanding so far are the numbers – and “eye watering charts” – that have just come in on national solar Read more
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – January 29, 2018: The proposed halt to operations in 2019 at the West’s largest coal-fired power plant could attract White House attention. Originally published February 23, 2017: Since 1976 the 2,250-megawatt coal-fired Navajo Generating Station, with its three towering stacks Read more
Clean Technica | By: George Harvey | January 24, 2018: The design for a community microgrid project that is forming in Warner, New Hampshire, seems rather prosaic at first glance. It is simple, with a few buildings, some solar panels, batteries, inverters, and all the regular gear. It seems an Read more
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | January 22, 2018: China’s National Energy Administration published its official solar statistics for 2017 on Monday, revealing that the country had installed a total of 52.83 gigawatts worth of new solar capacity in 2017. A lot of attention has been given over Read more
Renewable Energy World | By: Dylan McConnell | January 17, 2018: It’s just over one month since the Hornsdale Power Reserve was officially opened in South Australia at the Hornsdale wind farm. The excitement surrounding the project has generated acres of media interest, both locally and abroad. The aspect that Read more
Clean Technica | By: Carolyn Fortuna | January 16, 2018: The Wind Energy Foundation has just released a new report. In it, they talk about the need for US transmission planners to modify their calculations based on the number of big companies that are increasingly signing deals to buy wind Read more
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | January 16, 2018: High electricity costs make renewable energy more attractive. That’s why Bloomberg thinks Australia is poised to have a renewable energy bonanza. “The payback period for residential solar is now as low as it was in 2012, when super-generous feed-in tariffs Read more
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | January 16, 2018: Increasing the share of renewable energy sources in India’s electricity mix and implementing changes in cooling technologies for thermal power plants could serve not only to reduce the country’s carbon emissions intensity, but could also substantially reduce water consumption, Read more
World Resources Institute | By: Tianyi Luo | January 16, 2018: Water shortages are hurting India’s ability to produce power. New WRI research finds that 40 percent of the country’s thermal power plants are located in areas facing high water stress, a problem since these plants use water for cooling. Read more
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – January 16, 2018: Droughts, floods, and civic opposition cause huge losses. Originally published April 28, 2016: In early November 2002, six years before Lehman Brothers melted down and the American economy came much too close to collapsing, John Cassidy wrote Read more
Renewable Energy World | Bloomberg | By: Brian Eckhouse | GPE – January 13, 2018: Tesla Inc. has kicked off production of its long-awaited electricity-producing shingles that Elon Musk says will transform the rooftop solar industry. Originally published January 09, 2018: Manufacturing of the photovoltaic glass tiles began last month Read more
Renewable Energy World | By: Jennifer Delony | GPE – January 09, 2018: A new group of microgrids has been proposed to help support Connecticut’s critical facilities in the event of an emergency. The proposals are part of the latest round of applications that were due Jan. 1 for funding Read more
Clean Technica | By: Tim Dixon | January 06, 2018: We’ve published a couple of articles recently on Shenzhen’s dramatic electrification of over 16,000 buses — something completely unprecedented around the world. But to say this is an isolated case of Chinese electric bus leadership would be to miss the Read more
Clean Technica | By: Tim Dixon | January 06, 2018: China’s King of the electric vehicle world. It has more electric car sales than the rest of the world combined. One city now has over 16,000 electric buses in service — 100% of its fleet — and other cities are Read more
Clean Technica | By: Jesper Berggreen | January 06, 2018: Numbers have just come out this week from danskenergi.dk, the Danish energy organization whose members support companies in delivering steady green power to the Danes, with an impressive uptime of 99.99% at competitive prices. A New Record Wind turbines delivered Read more
Xinhua | Editor: Liu | December 31, 2017: China on Thursday opened a 1-km section solar expressway for testing. Solar panels are laid beneath part of a ring road surrounding Jinan, capital city of Shandong Province in east China. The road surface is made of a transparent, weight-bearing material that Read more
Xinhua | Editor: Mengjie | December 30, 2017: Beijing has built 112,600 charging poles for new energy cars as of the end of November, local authorities said Saturday. New energy vehicles can have acess to the charging pole service within five kilometers when they drive inside the Sixth Ring Road Read more
Clean Technica | By: Zachary Shahan | December 30, 2017: We write a lot about electric vehicles here on CleanTechnica, because we’re a tech site. But some of the best ways to cut emissions involve no tech at all. One of the best things you can do to cut your Read more
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | December 27, 2017: The shale gas fracking revolution that began in the United States a decade ago has been one of the worst disasters for the environment since our Canadian friends figured out how to extract oil from the Alberta tar sands. The Read more
Shell Foundation & Grantham Institute | By: Various Authors | GPE – December 23, 2017: Executive Summary: Over the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in the deployment of solar home systems, and rural utilities coupled with electrical energy storage devices, enabling off grid access to energy and Read more
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | GPE – December 22, 2017: There is an ongoing struggle going on between solar developers and farmers. Land that is best for solar installations are often well suited to growing crops or raising animals. Some experiments are being conducted to bridge the needs Read more
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – December 12, 2017: In unfolding global energy revolution, expensive and ecologically risky dams may not be right choice to generate more electricity. The bend in the Mekong River where Laotian authorities want to build the Pak Beng hydropower dam is Read more
Clean Technica | By: The Beam | December 09, 2017: Today we’re able to build self-driving trucks, to communicate with smart humanoids, and to play video games with virtual reality technologies. Yet there are 1.06 billion people living without access to electricity across the world (IEA and World Bank, 2017). Read more
Reuters | By: Frank Phiri | December 07, 2017: Many parts of Malawi remained without electricity on Thursday after water levels at the country’s two main dams sunk to critical levels and affected hydro power plants, the power utility said on Thursday. Malawi lost around 200 megawatts (MW) of hydro Read more
Defense One | By: Caroline Houck | December 06, 2017: “On a scale of 1 to 10,” the threat of a cyber attack on U.S. critical infrastructure is “a 7 or an 8,” the Department of Homeland Security warned lawmakers last week. And indeed, someone has been probing the defenses Read more
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | December 06, 2017: For the past 40 years, the electricity sector of the US economy has been the biggest source of carbon emissions. But according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, that distinction now belongs to transportation — automobiles, trucks, airplanes, and ships. Don’t Read more
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) | By: Katherine Chrisman & Mark Porter | November 28, 2017: Over the past decade, China has become the world’s leader in wind and solar capacity. Traditionally, China’s electricity structure has been closed off to most forms of corporate renewable procurement. But as a growing number Read more
Clean Technica | By: Kyle Field | November 28, 2017: We recently had the opportunity to speak with Craig Wooster, Project Manager & General Contractor at the Stone Edge Farm (SEF) Microgrid Project, about the impressive work the team is doing to take the farm off the grid with sustainable Read more
Clean Technica | By: Smiti | November 24, 2017: China has launched a major reform in its power sector which will enable renewable energy generators not linked to the main power grid to sell electricity easily. The National Energy Administration (NEA) recently announced that small and medium-sized renewable energy generators Read more
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | November 24, 2017: Solar panels are wonderful things, but they do take up a lot of space, especially for larger, utility-scale systems. In some densely populated countries like China and India, where loss of farmland can lead to hungry people, floating solar farms Read more
Clean Technica | By: Derek Markham | November 14, 2017: The race to electrify long haul trucking, as well as other heavy cargo carriers, is really starting to heat up, and although we’re all waiting for Musk to blow our minds clean out of our skulls with the Tesla semi Read more
Renewable Energy World | By: Jaideep Bansal | GPE – November 14, 2017: I was recently reading an article on the Grid of the Future where prosumers are both the producers and consumers of the power. It talks about how people will be able to use decentralized microgrids and not Read more
Renewable Energy World | By: Jennifer Runyon | November 13, 2017: The Microgrid 2017 conference, which ran from November 6-8 in Boston, kicked off with a list of events that point to a desperate need for microgrids, and I bet you’ve heard of them: February: 300,000 in Pennsylvania March: 800,000 Read more
Clean Technica | By:Joshua S Hill | November 09, 2017: Making a global transition to a 100% renewable electricity grid has long been a dream of many, but new research published this week by the Lappeenranta University of Technology has proven it is no longer just a dream but a Read more
Clean Technica |By: Steve Hanley | GPE – November 12, 2017: Flat Holm island is an uninhabited rocky outcropping in the Bristol Channel that separates England from Wales. It is much admired for its rugged beauty and abundant avian population but like many islands in the world, a diesel generator Read more
Lazard | November 2017: Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy (“LCOE”) analysis addresses the following topics: Comparative “levelized cost of energy” analysis for various technologies on a $/MWh basis, including sensitivities, as relevant,for U.S. federal tax subsidies, fuel costs, geography and cost of capital, among other factors. Comparison of the implied Read more
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | October 28th, 2017: China is getting serious about curbing pollution. According to sources, up to 40% of its factories have been closed at least temporarily recently as the country has struggled to meet its year-end pollution reduction goals. Officials from more than 80,000 Read more
International Renewable Energy Agency | October 2017: Foreword: It is truly remarkable what a difference five years can make in the ongoing transformation of the energy sector. As recently as 2012, questions about high generation costs still overshadowed the rise of solar and wind power. But what was already clear, Read more
The Wall Street Journal | By: Christopher Mims | October 15, 2017: A combination of solar power and the rise of residential energy storage paves the way for a new kind of cable cutting. In the near future, your home could be battery operated. This is especially true if you Read more
GE Reports | By: Thomas Kellner & Mark Egan | Oct 12, 2017: The turquoise, nutrient-rich waters off the coast of the Indonesian island of Lombok are perfect for growing pearls. But when pearl farmer Fauzi Se wanted to take advantage of nature’s bounty and expand production at his jewelry Read more
Clean Technica | By Marlene Cimons | GPE – October 10, 2017: When the conversation turns to sources of clean renewable energy, evaporation usually isn’t the first thing to come up, if at all. Yet scientists think evaporation from US lakes and reservoirs could generate almost 70% of the power Read more
Clean Technica | By: Matt Pressman | October 07, 2017: On the heels of Tesla’s continuing traction all across Australia, Musk recently attended a Powerpack unveiling at Noeon Hornsdale wind farm in Jamestown, South Australia. He announced Tesla was approximately 50% finished with the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery system. Just Read more
Clean Technica | By: Giles Parkinson | October 06, 2017: Elon Musk didn’t need 100 days after obtaining a connection agreement to switch on the Tesla big battery in South Australia. In fact, it took him less than 100 minutes. That’s how quickly the battery was up and running after Read more
Clean Technica | By: Cynthia Shahan | October 06, 2017: The upside of Twitter showed in an exchange between Ricardo Rossello, the governor of Puerto Rico, and real-world Tony Stark Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Governor Rossello was seemingly sending a desperate plea of help to someone who gets turned to Read more
Renewable Energy World | By: Mahesh Bhave | October 04, 2017: Puerto Rico presents a near perfect opportunity to rebuild the electricity infrastructure from scratch in accord with technologies of the present — solar panels, batteries, wind turbines, and perhaps small generators — optimally combined in steps of 250 kW Read more
Renewable Energy World | By: Gregory B. Poindexter | GPE – October 06, 2017: Results released from an Australian Renewable Energy Agency study indicate the possibility exists for the development of the 225-MW Cultana pumped storage hydropower facility located in South Australia’s Spencer Gulf. Originally published Ocrober 03, 2017: If Read more
Clean Technica | By: John Farrell | October 05, 2017: Clean Technica Article 1: Electric cars aren’t new. At the dawn of the US auto industry in the late 1800s, electric vehicles outsold all other types of cars. By 1900, electric autos accounted for one-third of all vehicles on US Read more
Defense One | By: Marcus Weisgerber | October 04, 2017: American automaker General Motors has produced a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered chassis that executives say could allow the U.S. military to move equipment and supplies around the battlefield more efficiently and safely. Called SURUS, for Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure, the vehicle resembles Read more
Power Engineering International | By: Diarmaid Williams | October 04, 2017: The head of the world’s eighth largest power utility says ‘new coal is finished’ and gas-fired power is set for a similar fate. In a wide-ranging interview with the Euractiv website, Enel CEO and new president of Eurelectric, Francesco Read more
Renewable Energy World | By: Dr, Andy Skumanich | GPE – October 04, 2017: “EV phone home” – Life without our mobile phone seems pretty unimaginable, doesn’t it? We now carry along our phone/camera/computer in our hands, and, if you want to believe a recent movie, some of us even Read more
Renewable Energy World | By: Livio Filice | September 28, 2017: All across North America and the Caribbean, power outages are frequently experienced leading to power losses over short and long durations. Power outages can occur due to natural causes, such as an ice storm or hurricane but can also Read more
Clean Technica | By: Zachary Shahan | October 03rd, 2017: Two years ago in Florida, I gave a presentation at the EV Transportation & Technology Summit titled “EV R&D and the Future.” It was based on our first big EV driver report. Of all the interesting findings from the report, Read more
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | October 03rd, 2017: Before jumping into the broader Norway electric car story from Steve Hanley below, there are some amazing highlights out of Oslo that helpful CleanTechnica reader Are Hansen pointed out to us: 40% of new cars registered in Oslo in September Read more
Clean Technica | By: Carolyn Fortuna | September 28th, 2017: Landscape architects and clean tech? Sounds like the old nature-versus-society conundrum, doesn’t it? Well, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) says that homeowners can implement cutting-edge methods so that residential landscapes support the environment — no matter the location Read more
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | September 28th, 2017: The Switzerland-based engineering giant ABB will be working with Northvolt on that company’s project to build what will reportedly be “Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery production plant.” That battery factory will be in Sweden. The planned facility is intended to help Read more
The Wall Street Journal | By: Yoko Kubota in Beijing & Trefor Moss | September 28, 2017: Auto makers will have to start manufacturing electric vehicles by 2019, after deadline was pushed back by one year. China will force auto makers to accelerate production of electric vehicles by 2019, a Read more
Renewable Energy World | GPE – September 28, 2017: A new survey conducted by public advocacy organization Climate Council found that about 75 percent of respondents in Australia expect that household battery storage will be “the new normal” within the next decade. Originally published September 25, 2017: The survey also Read more
Renewable Energy World | By: John Bringenberg | September 18, 2017: The next stratum of electricity and grid development over the coming two decades appears more and more clear. Major utilities methodically move through the regulatory and practical deployment of smarter communicating grid technology and advanced metering. This continues the Read more
China Global Television Network (CGTN) | By: Wang Xueying | GPE – September 19, 2017: Desertification is threatening the environment and regional economies. In north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, an experiment is being carried out in the Kubuqi desert to control desertification and even turn it green. Originally published Read more
Reuters | By: Anna Pujol-Mazzini | September 14, 2017: Asian glaciers are set to shrink by at least a third by 2100 due to climate change, researchers said on Thursday, threatening millions who depend on their meltwaters for drinking, farming and hydro-electricity. The scientists’ prediction is based on an assumption Read more
Clean Technica | Nexus Media | By: Marlene Cimons | September 17th, 2017: Trees provide beauty when they bloom and shade when it’s hot. They are a symbol of the environment, hence the term “tree huggers” to describe eco-activists. They even inspire (often florid) poetry. And now, scientists have learned Read more
Clean Technica | By: Michael Barnard | September 17th, 2017: Electric cars and other vehicles continue to gain momentum, just as autonomous features are becoming mainstream. But while potential job losses due to autonomy are a strong focus, the multitude of impacts electrification will have on road transportation aren’t as Read more
Renewable Energy World | By: William Steel | September 13, 2017: With the complete toll of Hurricane Irma beginning to reveal itself, renewable energy stakeholders take stock of lessons learned. Haiti-based micro-utility start-up Sigora Haiti is one such group. Holding a concession from the government of Haiti to be sole Read more
Hydroworld.com | By: Elizabeth Ingram | GPE – September 12, 2017: “Community hydro” is a phrase we’ve been seeing fairly regularly recently, and it generally refers to a hydroelectric project where development was driven by a community, for the benefit of an array of shareholders. The National Energy Foundation in Read more
Renewable Energy World | By: Jennifer Runyon | GPE – September 12, 2017: As homeowners and businesses continue to install energy generating equipment like batteries and solar PV behind their meters, forward-looking utilities such as San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) are piloting projects that will help them figure out Read more
Greentech Media | By: Julian Spector | GPE – September 12, 2017: For most, the payoff is not here yet, according to a new NREL study. But it’s coming as PV deployment increases. With so few utility-scale solar-plus-storage projects actually built, we don’t have much data on how their economics Read more
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | GPE – September 12, 2017: The United States Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has updated its analysis of electricity generation technology costs, and it’s good news again for wind and solar, which come out cheapest alongside natural gas. Originally published August Read more
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – September 07, 2017: Originally published July 14, 2016: Earlier this year, in an announcement that has become more routine around the world, Suy Sem, Cambodia’s minister of mines and energy, declared a moratorium on the construction of big hydropower dams Read more
Clean Technica | By: Jeremy Deaton | GPE – September 07, 2017: If the United States wants to kick its coal habit, it will need to install a lot more solar power. That raises an important question: Where should all those panels reside? They could always go live on a Read more
Clean Technica | By: Tobias Engelmeier | GPE – September 05, 2017: The global microgrid market is ready for significant private investment. While there remain some challenges – especially around the regulatory framework and aggregation of projects – there are now enough businesses with viable business models to provide early Read more
Clean Technica | By: Geoffrey Styles | GPE – September 05, 2017: Bloomberg’s renewable energy affiliate forecasts that wind and solar power will make major inroads into the global market share of natural gas within a decade. This is a crucially important question for major oil companies who are betting Read more
Renewable Energy World | By: Kenneth Bossong | GPE – September 04, 2017: The latest issue of the U.S. Energy Information’s (EIA) “Electric Power Monthly,” with data through June 30, reveals that renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar — including small-scale PV — and wind) remain in a Read more
Renewable Energy World | By: Jess Shankleman | August 14, 2017: Electric car owners are earning as much as $1,530 a year just by parking their vehicle and feeding excess power back into the grid. Trials in Denmark carried out by Nissan Motor Co. and Italy’s biggest utility Enel SpA Read more
CleanTechnica | By: Tobias Engelmeier | August 18, 2017: The global microgrid market is ready for significant private investment. While there remain some challenges – especially around the regulatory framework and aggregation of projects – there are now enough businesses with viable business models to provide early stage, strategic or Read more
Energy Post | By: Geoffrey Styles | August 7, 2017: Bloomberg’s renewable energy affiliate forecasts that wind and solar power will make major inroads into the global market share of natural gas within a decade. This is a crucially important question for major oil companies who are betting their future Read more
Photon.info | By: AECEA ~ Panda Green Energy Group Ltd. | August 06, 2017: China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) released official statistics concerning 1H/2017 solar PV deployment and confirmed formerly disclosed information, that during the 1H/2017 in total 24.4 GW were added, representing an increase of 9 percent year-over-year. Out Read more
Clean Technica | By: Tom Nockolds | August 3rd, 2017: Community energy is a global phenomenon. Wherever we find people, we tend to find communities stepping forward to have a greater say and determination in what their future energy supplies should look like. These people are ensuring that their communities Read more
Clean Technica | By: Saurabh Mahapatra | August 01, 2017: The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), responsible for conducting wind energy auctions in India, has seen a tremendous response to the latest 1 gigawatt tender. Originally published on CleanTechies: According to media reports, project developers have placed bids to Read more
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | July 27, 2017: The release of “treated” wastewater from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations in Pennsylvania has led to regional watersheds being contaminated with radioactive materials, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and heavy metals, according to a new study from researchers at Penn State, Colorado State, and Read more
World Resources Institute | By: Tianyi Luo | July 26, 2017: India is making great strides to aggressively expand its renewable energy capacity. But the country’s power sector remains highly reliant on thermoelectric plants, with high demand for water for cooling. That means that droughts, like the one caused last Read more
ARS Technica | By: Megan Geuss | July 25, 2017: Without planning and cooperation, EU countries could be up against a water problem. Unless you work at a coal, gas, or nuclear plant, you may not think about water when you think about electricity (certainly at a household level; they Read more
Clean Technica | By: Zachary Shahan | GPE – July 23, 2017: We already published a great article from Nexus Media regarding Lazard’s new report showing the extremely low (and falling) costs of solar power and wind power. However, I’ve been wanting to highlight these awesome new findings since Larmion Read more
The Council On Foreign Relations | Foreign Affairs | Issue: Natural Resources | Essay By David G. Victor and Kassia Yanosek | July/August 2017: The technology revolution has transformed one industry after another, from retail to manufacturing to transportation. Its most far-reaching effects, however, may be playing out in the Read more
Clean Technica | By Zachary Shahan | GPE – July 23, 2017: Everything has its advantages and disadvantages, its pluses and minuses. So, naturally, there must be a number of solar power advantages and solar power disadvantages too, right? It’s been awhile since I ran down a list of solar Read more
Lazard | Report | GPE – July 23, 2017: Lazard has released the tenth version of its Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis (LCOE 10.0). An in depth study of Alternative Energy costs compared to conventional generation technologies. The central findings of the LCOE study are: 1) Certain Alternative Energy technologies Read more
Clean Technica | By Zachary Shahan | GPE – July 23, 2017: If you’re considering solar, and you’re like most people, one of the first questions you may ask is: How much do solar panels cost? Solar is a great idea for many people, not only to cut their utility Read more
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | July 20th, 2017: China installed a record 24.4 gigawatts worth of new solar capacity across the first half of 2017, according to new figures from the country’s solar PV association, a new year-on-year record of 9% up on 2016’s own record installation Read more
Renewable Energy World | By Barry Cinnamon | July 20, 2017: At 1:30 on a Sunday afternoon in June, I experienced the second power outage at my Silicon Valley home this year. Then, last weekend a transformer explosion at a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power substation left 140,000 Read more
Renewable Energy World | GPE – July 21, 2017: Transitioning to the energy landscape of the future is oftentimes distilled down to a rise in renewable power generation. But the reality is that myriad industries are evolving and contributing to the foundations of a cleaner future. Here, the emergence of Read more
Photon | Post date: 20/07/2017: The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has accepted the Hawaiian Electric Companies’ plan charting the near-term actions that will lead to 100 percent of Hawaii’s power generation needs coming from renewable resources by 2045. According to Heco, the Power Supply Improvement Plan Update describes the Read more
Forester Network | By: Laura Sanchez | GPE – July 21, 2017: It began innocently enough—a resume sent via email in Microsoft Word document format. But what transpired once power plant managers opened the files was unquestionably sinister. Originally posted July 10, 2017: Authorities report that since May 2017, hackers Read more
The Third Pole | By: Katherine Purvis, July 19, 2017: The Indian government’s policy of using treated sewage water to run operations in coal-fired power plants is not economically viable and will do little to resolve conflicts over water use. An ambitious plan to reduce the dependence of India’s coal-fired Read more
Rocky Mountain Institute | By: Kevin Brehm | July 12, 2017: Market responses show rural electric co-ops and municipal utilities can save money with solar. On March 22, 2017, Rocky Mountain Institute’s Shine Program released a request for proposals (RFP) for community-scale solar on behalf of a group of rural Read more
Renewable Energy World | By: Brian Christopher Greene and Deanne M. Barrow | GPE – July 19, 2017: Part One: Technological and cost breakthroughs are expected to lead to rapid growth in the number of utility and behind-the-meter storage projects. Industry insiders say the energy storage market in 2017 feels Read more
Reuters | By: by Bate Felix | July 18, 2017: French utility EDF cut output at two reactors at its Tricastin nuclear plant in southern France on Tuesday, due to scorching temperatures, to reduce the amount of heated water from the reactors’ cooling system flowing into the Rhone river. The Read more