Largest Floating Solar Power Plant in India Turned On

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:16:38 +0000

As I wrote a couple of days ago, one of the big and fun trends in the solar industry globally is the expansion of floating solar PV power plants. There’s just something fun about floating anything, and in this case particularly floating solar arrays. Floating solar power systems are making … [continued]

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Giant Solar Power Project To Highlight Water Conservation, Grassland Restoration

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:25:03 +0000

A massive new 1.3 gigawatt solar power plant will feature thousands of acres of restored native grasslands while conserving water and reducing agricultural chemicals near a wildlife preserve.

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Great Lakes Shipping Grants Will Finalize Before Trump Takes Office

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:05:26 +0000

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to finalize more than $200 million in grant funding in the coming weeks to accelerate the clean energy transition at three Great Lakes shipping ports. That action will obligate the federal government to pay roughly $3 billion in grants under the program, even … [continued]

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Big Solar And Transmission News In Oregon, Wisconsin, & The Midwest

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:57:49 +0000

Two large solar power plants have been approved this week, along with a new plan for more HVDC transmission lines.

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US DOE — Flurry of Solar & Wind Power Announcements

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 04:58:00 +0000

As Joe Biden’s time leading the United States approaches an end, various government agencies have been sprinting to get things done before they are at risk of being dropped and forgotten. Rather than try to cover each of these separately, let’s quickly roll through some of the announcements, and you … [continued]

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Residential Energy Storage Installations Hit All-Time High in USA

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 03:58:10 +0000

It seems like yesterday that Ron Corio told me at a lunch with engineers that energy storage will be the next big thing since solar power. It was years ago. Well, development happened quickly, time went by, and now it’s here to stay. Residential energy storage installations just hit an … [continued]

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Hydrogen Ships Are Seeing Same Pattern As All Hydrogen Fleets

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 03:37:54 +0000

As the years pass and more re-enactments of the Odyssey of the Hydrogen Fleet are played out, they get staged in multiple settings, much like Shakespeare’s Tempest being staged in a waterpark in Germany in 2019. In recent months, I’ve curated a couple of lists of hydrogen bus and train … [continued]

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Join CleanTechnica on BlueSky!

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:06:08 +0000

Jennifer wrote a great piece about the fragmentation of the EV scene on social media a few weeks ago, pointing out all the challenges associated with getting the right messaging out in a universe of often purposefully biased media. The mass “X-odus” from Elon Musk’s social media platform continues, with … [continued]

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Slick Energy Storage Trick Deploys Ultra-Hot Bricks To Prick Carbon Bubble

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:04:39 +0000

Boston startup re-invents millennia-old firebricks for 21st century renewable energy storage and industrial decarbonization.

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AI, Data Centers, & Climate Risks

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:21:56 +0000

The world has gone cuckoo for artificial intelligence. AI is virtually all you hear in the news these days. NVIDIA is worth a gazillion dollars because it manufactures the specialized computer chips that data centers need to make AI possible. Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Google are all rushing headlong … [continued]

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