Fortune International | GPE – July 16, 2017: The current focus of China on infrastructure development was explained in a special report originally published online by Fortune International on May 23rd 2013 – excerpted below: China is at a crossroads. Its leaders are committed to dramatically transforming the world’s second-largest Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Sven Lindström | July 13, 2017: The stars are aligned for a breakthrough of small-scale solar energy in urban areas. This could completely change the world, the planet’s source of energy generation and save the environment. However, there are also obstacles to this bright future Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Dr. Thomas Hillig | July 11, 2017: The Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius has changed its power generation paradigms by reducing diesel consumption with a 1.89 MW solar PV and 1 MW/572 kWh Li-Ion battery energy storage system. THEnergy has performed a data analysis for Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Michele Capots | July 12, 2017: Hurricane Sandy, known as Superstorm Sandy, was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. Almost 2.5 million people were left without power in the aftermath of the storm. Damages were estimated to be more Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Jiao Wang, Leah Schleifer and Lijin Zhong | GPE – July 13, 2017: Drought in Kenya and neighboring countries became so severe earlier this year that the government of Kenya declared a national disaster. Already, the effects have been devastating: Food production dropped, leaving more Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Giles Parkinson | July 11th, 2017: Chief scientist Alan Finkel says it is clear that investors in the energy market prefer wind and solar because they are cheaper to build than traditional generation such as hydro and coal. Speaking to the National Press Club 12 days Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julia Pyper | GPE – July 12, 2017: Oil companies have realized that renewables aren’t going away—and they want to get in on the action. Originally published – June 13, 2017: Wind and solar have reached a point where they’re impossible for the world’s largest oil Read more…
Chatham House | By: Professor Paul Stevens | GPE July 12, 2017: The IOCs are faced with the choice of managing a gentle decline by downsizing or risking a rapid collapse by trying to carry on business as usual. Summary: Report Originally Published May 2016: The future of the major Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julia Pyper | July 11, 2017: The oil giant’s New Energies division launched last year with an annual investment budget of just $200 million. Royal Dutch Shell is accelerating its move into alternative energy, with plans to spend up to $1 billion per year on its Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julian Spector | July 11, 2017: The new company, Fluence, will combine AES’ expertise in utility-scale storage with Siemens’ global sales and engineering resources. Two of the biggest names in energy storage development have decided to join forces. AES, a leader in megawatt-hours deployed, will launch Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Perry Williams, Bloomberg | July 7, 2017: Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. has won a tender to supply what the billionaire says is the world’s largest lithium-ion battery to back up the state of South Australia’s blackout-plagued power grid, making good on a promise first made Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jeff Yan | July 10, 2017: As the country seeks to install energy generation capacity at lightning pace, China is looking at how smart technologies in large solar PV plants can help save time and money while increasing energy production. As the private sector increasingly Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: John Farrell | July 6, 2017: Two key moves will propel San Francisco toward an all-renewable electricity mix by 2030, potentially making the city — the 13th largest in the nation — a model for others eyeing a similar transition. In April 2016, city policy Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jess Shankleman, Bloomberg | July 6, 2017: BlackRock Inc. exceeded a $1 billion fundraising target for wind and solar investments for its latest global clean energy fund, underscoring investor interest in renewable energy amid policy uncertainty in key markets. The second Global Renewable Power Fund, Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Joe Ryan, Bloomberg | June 29, 2017: As Elon Musk races to finish building the world’s biggest battery factory in the Nevada desert, China is poised to leave him in the dust. Chinese companies have plans for additional factories with the capacity to pump out Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | July 4th, 2017: Germany reached a new renewable energy record in the first half of this year, generating 35.1% of its electricity from renewable energy sources, according to the country’s trade body, the German Renewable Energy Federation. In news published only days Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Renewable Energy World Editors | June 27, 2017: The U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami yesterday approved a resolution calling for 100 percent renewable energy in cities across the U.S. by 2035. “What better way to kick off Donald Trump’s energy week than with a Read more…
Reuters | By: Andrés González and Arno Schuetze | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 1:18pm EDT: Spanish power company Gas Natural (GAS.MC) has fired the starting gun in what is expected to be the biggest upheaval among European utility companies for a decade. Chairman Isidre Faine has contacted his counterpart Read more…
Reuters | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 5:43am EDT: The Three Gorges and Gezhouba, two of China’s top hydropower plants, have closed capacity by as much as two-thirds, state media said on Tuesday, as torrential rains across the south triggered drastic steps to ease pressure on the Yangtze River. Days Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Brian Parkin, Bloomberg | June 30, 2017: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition is widening access to the solar power market for people who rent their homes in a move to boost green power’s expansion in an election year. Lawmakers moved to pass legislation dubbed “Tenant Power” Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | June 30th, 2017: Renewable energy sources generated more than a quarter of the UK’s electricity in the first quarter of this year, with onshore wind setting a record high of 8.3%, helping to further dismantle the UK’s reliance upon coal energy. In Read more…
Clean Technica | June 29th, 2017 | By: John Farrell: While most programs so far have targeted home comfort (central air conditioning or electric water heating), there are other sources of electricity consumption that remain untouched. In the past decade, two major trends have threatened the ability of electric utilities Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Bradley Olson | June 29, 2017 7:00 a.m. ET: After weathering years of protests, pipeline operator TransCanada is struggling to attract customers amid low crude prices and competing oil-transportation options. Keystone XL is facing a new challenge: The oil producers and refiners the pipeline Read more…
Rocky Mountain Institute | By Courtney Fairbrother, Leia Guccione, Mike Henchen and Anthony Teixeira: PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT: This report explores challenges to effective innovation at U.S. electric utilities, with a focus on pilot and demonstration projects. We offer recommendations for utilities, regulators, and DER technology providers to support more Read more…
Reinsurance News | By: Marianne Lehnis | 28th June 2017: Along with wind and sun, China has harnessed the power of insurance to catalyse its clean energy revolution, after having successfully pioneered government led re/insurance partnerships to safe-guard regional development with an index insurance scheme that makes a post-disaster payout Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | June 27th, 2017: Renewable energy sources are now providing more electricity than nuclear power for the first time ever in the United States, according to figures issued by the US Energy Information Administration and highlighted by Ken Bossong’s Sun Day Campaign. The Read more…
Video Above: “What Are Microgrids?” Greentech Media | By: Jeff St. John | June 27, 2017: One of the country’s biggest microgrid providers plans to share technologies and markets with one of California’s top BTM storage startups. Microgrids require a hefty combination of technologies to execute properly. They also require Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Steve Sawyer | June 21, 2017: ‘A remarkable achievement,’ is the only thing I can say about where the European offshore wind industry finds itself today. It has taken a lot longer and cost a lot more money and effort than we thought back in Read more…
Engineering News | By: Terence Creamer | 26th June 2017: Recent renewable energy price reductions, together with sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA’s) formidable solar and wind resources, have made solar and wind technologies the cheapest sources of power in several countries, which carries significant implications, a newly published academic paper argues, for Read more…
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Renewable Energy World | By: Renewable Energy World Editors | May 26, 2017: On Friday, May 26, on what was expected to be one of the hottest days of the year, solar panels in the UK generated a record amount of power, enough to meet almost 25 percent of demand. Read more…
American Affairs Journal | By: Travis Kavulla: Electricity is an input in virtually everything we do as a modern society. Few Americans remember what it was like to live without it and its attendant benefits on quality of life, labor productivity, and human health. Electricity is today largely taken for Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Tom Ewing | May 22, 2017: In the U.K., National Grid (NG) is the utility that owns the high voltage electricity network in England and Wales. It is also one of four British gas distribution companies. It’s a big player — “joining everything up” (NG Read more…
Reuters: Environment | Fri May 12, 2017 | 4:07am EDT: By: Seng Li Peng and Florence Tan | SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR: Demand for gasoline in Asia may peak much earlier than expected as millions of people in China and India buy electric vehicles over the next decade, threatening wrenching change for Read more…