Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:00:40 +0000
12 municipal power companies in Florida and the Florida Municipal Power Agency have agreed to purchase power from a 223.5 MW solar power plant in central Florida owned and operated by NextEra Energy.
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:00:33 +0000
A new “green” hydrogen pilot plant in Austria aims at decarbonizing industrial processes, beginning with steel, with an assist from renewable
Credit to Author: Joshua S Hill| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:00:10 +0000
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed an Executive Order this week enshrining an increase to the state’s offshore wind energy target, increasing it from 3,500 megawatts (MW) by 2030 to 7,500 MW by 2035.
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 01:24:53 +0000
The most popular CleanTechnica stories last week included fun content about an off-grid month with SunPower solar panels + Tesla Powerwalls, the just-beginning economies of scale Tesla is getting from its gigafactories, a pitch for Elon Musk’s The Boring Company getting into pumped hydro, Tesla dominating US electric vehicle sales, and much more. Scroll down for the headlines and click through to the ones that tickle your fancy!
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:05:24 +0000
Scientist say alterations in ocean currents caused by global warming are causing higher average wind speeds around the world, which leads to more electricity being generated by wind farms.
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:08:49 +0000
Bill Gates was going to save the planet with breakthrough nuclear technology, but his new concentrating solar power venture is breaking through first
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 20:55:33 +0000
Wood Mackenzie projects that renewable energy will meet 53% of Europe’s power supply in 2030. If Europeans deliver their individual National Energy and Climate Plans, sustainable energy will command the electricity market
Credit to Author: Saurabh| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 20:05:06 +0000
India’s leading independent power producer in the renewable energy sector has achieved yet another milestone. ReNew Power Limited recently reported that it achieved 5 gigawatts of operational renewable energy capacity in India
Credit to Author: John Farrell| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:05:01 +0000
In the pathway to 100% renewable energy lie electric utilities. Since the time of electrification until the 1990s, every electric utility was a monopoly — it owned everything to deliver electricity from the power plants (and sometimes even the coal mines) to the transmission lines to the substations to the distribution lines to the meter on your home or business. With a market monopoly, utilities have enormous political power to promote or avoid change
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:05:59 +0000
Alabama Power, which serves two-thirds of electricity customers in the state, assesses people who have rooftop solar systems a fee of $5.00 a month for each kilowatt their systems generate. Some residential customers are challenging those fees.