The Verge: Energy
APRIL 8, 2024
More than 31 million people — nearly 10 percent of the population in the US — live in an area that will experience the total solar eclipse today. Millions more live near dirty power plants that could be tapped to make up for a loss of solar power. While solar generation falls, electricity demand is expected to rise.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
Wind and solar alone generated around 30 per cent of Britain's electricity in 2020, while biomass provided seven per cent, and hydropower made up 1.6 Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5 per cent of Britain's power last year, while imports accounted for just under seven per cent.
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Hydrogen Fuel News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Solar Power: The process of making electricity from sunlight is called solar energy. Solar panels are placed on roofs and fields to capture the sun’s energy. The turbines are connected to the power grid and can generate electricity when the wind blows.
Business Green
APRIL 13, 2022
It calculates that across all countries, renewable power grew by 9.1 per cent in 2021, bringing clean energy's share of global power capacity to 38 per cent. The report notes that solar capacity grew by 19 per cent in 2021 on the year before, and wind energy increased its generating capacity by 13 per cent.
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Solar power is the "new king" of global electricity markets, with the International Energy Agency calling it the cheapest form of electricity in history in its annual centerpiece World Energy Outlook report. Solar's ascent and coal's decline have been rapid by the standards of the electricity industry.
GreenTechMedia
MAY 4, 2020
Dominion’s Virginia generation portfolio today is roughly one-third natural gas, one-third nuclear and one-quarter coal, with just over 5 percent ascribed to renewable energy, much of it hydropower and biomass. Major boosts for solar, offshore wind and energy storage.
The Verge: Energy
APRIL 24, 2024
Climate change poses new risks to the power grid, and Costa Rica has a lot of work left to do to get more solar and wind farms online. In the winter, like a six-month period from June to December, many of the hydropower plants get surplus flows. That’s when we have low wind, but we have more hydropower.
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