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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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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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World adds record new renewable energy capacity in 2020

Renewable Energy World

However, hydropower still accounts for the largest share of renewables in the total mix. Renewables’ rising share of the total is partly attributable to net decommissioning of fossil fuel power generation in Europe, North America and for the first time across Eurasia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation and Turkey).

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Mannvit rebrands to COWI and enters new chapter of growth in Iceland

ThinkGeoEnergy

Örn Guðmundsson explains the need for additional talents given the projects that lie ahead: “ We are looking into a year with exciting projects ahead, for example, a key role in the construction of The New Hospital in Reykjavík, ongoing work on the Borgarlínan project and various hydropower projects.

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Sustainable infrastructure developer, Generate Capital, raises $2B

Renewable Energy World

and Europe, including additional commitments from existing investors AP2 of Sweden, Railways Pension of the UK and The Wellcome Trust. The company recently launched its Generate Credit unit dedicated to creating more credit solutions for green projects and companies, and geographic expansion beyond North America is also underway.

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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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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