GreenBiz

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Starting with one of the fastest-growing clean energy sectors, solar technology, this is the fundamental question that a unique collaboratory is asking itself. CoRE recognizes the critical societal importance of scaling clean energy technologies such as solar to address the climate crisis.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Why wholesale markets matter to big power buyers. power trends by pulling investment into renewables. Wholesale power markets already serve most U.S. Today, roughly 80 percent of corporate power purchase agreements take place within existing wholesale energy markets, according to REBA. . Adam Aston.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

A recent IDTechEx webcast, "Electric Vehicles and Robotics in Agriculture: $50 Billion Market Soon,” provided a brief overview of a 215-page report , "Electric Vehicles and Robotics in Agriculture 2020-2030,” that the research firm published in February. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement. Many employees want to live out their personal values at work and are asking for these programs," said Richard Keiser, CEO and founder of community solar company Common Energy, during the GreenBiz webcast last week about engaging employees in sustainability.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing concern about the impact of human activity on the environment, and the need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels in order to combat climate change. One technology, solar panels, seems to be the one technology many choose, and with good reason. Secondly, solar panels are versatile.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2021

The company’s most recent 10-K form for the fiscal year that ended Dec. In recent years, Etsy has been working on addressing the carbon impact of its marketplace, which is made up of nearly 4.5 Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. E-commerce.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2022

Note: The is the sixth article in a series on BP’s recently-released BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022. Previous articles were: Wind And Solar Provided A Record 10% Of The World’s Power Generation In 2021. exajoules, which is still more than wind and solar. Why The U.S.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

"We have to start with the mass market and communities of color, and offer them services and projects that make sense to their budget in order to reduce greenhouse gases on a time frame that makes sense," BlocPower CEO Donnel Baird recently said on the podcast Watt It Takes. Power Points. Sponsored Article. Energy & Climate.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Note: The is the final article in a series on the recently released 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy. Solar electricity consumption rose by a record 263 Terawatt-hours (TWh) — an increase of 25% from 2021 and surpassing wind power’s 251 TWh increase. Wind and solar reached a record 14.4% exajoules, up 0.7%

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 3, 2020

As battery prices continue to fall and the penetration of variable wind and solar generation rises, power plant developers are increasingly combining wind and solar projects with on-site batteries, creating “hybrid” power plants. In California, almost two-thirds of solar projects are proposed as hybrids.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

Google recently announced its partnership with Consumers Energy to bring smart thermostats to up to 100,000 households in Michigan. AutoOhm will power down energy-intensive connected appliances in 15-minute increments during peak energy times. This article is adapted from GreenBiz's newsletter Energy Weekly, running Thursdays.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Any time I write about nuclear power, it evokes passionate responses from readers. That was certainly the case following my previous article, Nuclear Power Could Cut The World’s Carbon Emissions In Half. There is always a contingent who are convinced that all we need is solar power. Department of Energy.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Two out of two subjects of infrastructure articles in our current print issue— XCharge’s Alex Urist and EnviroSpark’s Aaron Luque —mentioned this bottleneck.) Power electronics startup Amperesand has developed silicon-carbide solid-state transformer technology that it says can make transformers more capable and more compact.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

The world’s kilns, reactors, chillers and furnaces are powered mostly by fossil fuels. . The options include biodiesel, renewable electricity, renewable natural gas, solar thermal, geothermal, thermal storage and hydrogen. And for all the magic of this everyday alchemy, industrial heat poses a growing threat to the climate.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In recent years, electric vehicle (EV) adoption has accelerated in the world of personal cars. Vic Shao, chief executive of charging infrastructure company Amply Power, highlighted that while fossil-fuel prices typically fluctuate about 25 percent per year, renewable energy prices can experience shocks of up to 400 percent in just one day.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

There’s the natural gas that gets burned in them, and there’s all the electricity that it takes to power them. Our Podcast Senior Editor Ingrid Lobet has a special interest in buildings and wrote recently about embodied carbon for Greentech Media ( read that article here ). Optimize your solar power plant.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

This is the second article in a series. Several floors below the firm’s balcony, power lines crisscross over piles of garbage, a fleet of rickshaws and cow patties on a rooftop, being dried for cooking fuel. “I don’t think you can just deploy solar and solve everything,” he said. Read part one here.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

As I indicated in the previous article , BP has turned over publication of the annual Statistical Review of World Energy to the Energy Institute (EI). Today, I will cover the recently published 2023 report’s highlights. Renewable energy continued to grow strongly, with solar and wind reaching a 7.5% growth in output.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

Google and Nevada utility NV Energy have joined up on an energy supply agreement to power an under-construction data center outside Las Vegas, with future capacity that rivals the largest corporate solar power-purchase agreement announced to date in the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

German chemical company, BASF, and EDF Energy North America signed a 35-MW wind power purchase agreement (PPA) that will bring 25 MW of wind power to BASF’s Verbund site in Freeport, Texas, and 10 MW of wind power to the Pasadena, Texas, site. The planned start date for providing the BASF sites with wind power is June 2021.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2021

The is the sixth article in a series on BP’s recently-released Statistical Review of World Energy 2021. Previous articles were: Highlights From The BP Statistical Review Of World Energy 2021. The “Renewables” category above consists of wind power, solar power, biofuels, geothermal energy, and power produced from biomass.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

This is the first article in a series. Bids for new solar projects hit record lows last year, affirming that coal is no longer the cheapest source of electricity. The country awarded landmark supply contracts for flexible renewable power, an important step in addressing the limitations of intermittent wind and solar.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

During the Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL) IRP process, the city of Indianapolis submitted a public letter to encourage IPL to explore a more aggressive retirement scenario for the Petersburg Coal Generating Station and increase renewable generation. Phasing out fossil fuels.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 22, 2021

Few would have imagined that normal homes in small neighborhoods would be getting powered by solar energy a few years back. In this resource article, we look at 5 major technologies that are changing the future of the renewable energy industry. In recent years, several regions are experimenting with distributed generation.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Solar’s global shift from fringe to mainstream is a story Made in China. The likes of Jinko Solar, Trina Solar and Longi have dominated. Solar is establishing itself as the cheapest form of power across much of Europe, giving it a pivotal role in the continent’s drive toward net-zero.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. In a recent report , researchers at NREL estimated that the potential exists to increase U.S. However, according to recent projections , upwards of 100 gigawatts worth of these batteries will likely be installed by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 21, 2021

An energy storage system set to be the largest ever built in the Netherlands is to be co-located with wind and solar assets in a microgrid at Wageningen University & Research test center in Lelystad. Recent reports suggest the Netherlands will need between 29 and 54 GW of energy storage capacity by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This article is not about which generating technologies caused the blackouts experienced in Texas and other Midwest states this week. Lower 48 Power Generation Mix, with other fuels providing 65 percent. Lower 48 Power Generation Mix, with other fuels providing 65 percent. We do know a few things already. First, the U.S.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Image credit: Solar AquaGrid In arid river basins around the globe, substantial water supply is lost through evaporation. A recent estimate of global reservoir evaporative losses found that annual water volume loss was equivalent to 70 percent of all global municipal water withdrawals in 2010. infiltration into ditch banks).

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 3, 2021

As engineers working on climate-smart solutions, we’ve found an easy win-win for both water and climate in California with what we call the “solar canal solution.” Climate-friendly power. Shading California’s canals with solar panels would generate substantial amounts of electricity. million acres of farmland across the state.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

This article considers some of the key drivers behind the growing market adoption of small-scale battery storage systems in the Australian market. The rate solar system owners can earn for selling energy back to the grid (Feed in tariff) has fallen significantly in the last 2-3 years in line with decreasing wholesales prices.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Canada’s three largest newspapers ran opinion pieces attacking a planned phase-out of gas and diesel powered passenger vehicles within hours of the government’s official announcement that it would do so. Canadian EVs would include both battery and plug-in vehicles, as well as hydrogen-powered ones.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

Last summer’s record heat waves triggered a surge in power demand that maxed out supplies and led to outages across the West. California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. But rising temperatures from climate change are just one challenge.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

Nonprofit organizations such as the National Links Trust , recent bid winners to take over operations of Washington, D.C.’s Imagine if golf courses could grow enough food to feed an afterschool program or provide enough energy to power a homeless shelter. Sponsored Article. The time is now. Pull Quote. Contributors.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 30, 2022

Malaysia’s government plans to increase the share of renewable energy in its installed capacity to 31% in 2025 and 40% in 2035 under its power generation plan, according to the Malaysian Investment Development Authority. This feature article was originally published in The Global Power & Energy Elites 2022.

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Charged

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Ashlee Vance, the author of a popular biography of Elon Musk , interviews Straubel in a recent video from Bloomberg (the Straubel segment starts at about 8:30). These days, JB is living on a spread in the spectacular Nevada desert, where he has plenty of room to work on solar and battery storage projects. There’s no real limit to it.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 26, 2021

As Matt Dalton recently reported in The Wall Street Journal, there is a “Mountain of Chinese Coal” behind the rise in solar. That’s because a distressingly large amount of solar manufacturing is powered by burning coal, what we call “Coal-Fired Solar.”. Ultra Low-Carbon Solar is not the sole answer, obviously.

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