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

Renewable Energy World

As one of the first industrial-scale green hydrogen facilities in North America, the plant represents a significant milestone in Plug Power’s plan to establish the first North American green hydrogen network and to produce over 500 tons per day of hydrogen by 2025.

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Duke Plans Largest Floating PV Project in the Southeast

GreenTechMedia

The technology is most widely used in Asia, where land constraints make it an enticing option. By contrast, North America accounted for less than 1 percent of floating PV capacity installed last year. That potential is even greater when FPV systems are paired with hydropower, reaching 4,400 to 5,700 GW. “The U.S.

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The COP28 pledge to triple up by 2030 and implications for geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

China has long led the way in geothermal heating and cooling and will likely continue to do so, but there are hundreds of geothermal heating and cooling projects being developed in parallel and at different levels of scale all over Europe , North America , and South America.

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IRENA: Renewables accounted for three quarters of new power capacity in 2019

Business Green

The global renewable power sector added 176GW of new capacity in total last year - just fractionally down on the 179GW added in 2018 - as rapid growth in wind, solar, hydropower and other renewable power sources outpaced the fossil fuel sector by a factor of 2.6, according to IRENA. Overall, renewables capacity expanded by 7.6

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Fun with Floating Solar Panels

GreenTech Gazette

Floating solar panels have been in use for years in Europe and Asia. It’s said to be the largest floating solar array of its kind in North America. The US Department of Defense leaked a plan to install floating solar panels on Big Muddy Lake at Fort Bragg in North Carolina in 2020. megawatts, went live in 2019.

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Low carbon generation set to meet electricity demand growth – IEA

Smart Energy International

Significant extra demand also is expected from outside these economies, in particular in China, India and countries in Southeast Asia. For example, global hydropower generation declined in 2023 due to impacts such as droughts, below average rainfall and early snowmelts in numerous regions. Have you read?

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Lessons from a year of reporting on climate solutions in Cascadia

Grist

This is also largely true across North America, and beyond. interior across the West Coast to Asia, as one Getting To Zero story explored. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives.