Avantus Signs PPA with Arizona Utility for 100-MW Solar Project

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:41:32 +0000

A major U.S. solar power developer announced it has a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Arizona Public Service (APS) for the energy produced from the Kitt Solar Project. Avantus, the […]

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Ace Green Recycling Becoming a Public Company, Leading on Sustainable Battery Recycling

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:23:01 +0000

When someone asks me about my EV, they always bring up battery issues. It soon becomes clear that they don’t understand battery recycling. The conversations begin this way and swiftly break down into battery waste: “Well, oil comes out of the ground and so do the minerals for batteries…” or … [continued]

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Next-Gen Batteries, US Government Efficiency Improvement, Marine & Offshore Wind Research — US DOE News

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:37:08 +0000

The US Department of Energy continues to roll out great cleantech news as we approach the end of the year and the end of an epic presidential term for clean energy, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles. I’m going to roll through four stories from the past two days to catch … [continued]

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A Flow Battery Stealth Attack Is Coming For Your Fossil Fuels

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 04:53:52 +0000

Five electric cooperatives in the US will each host a new vanadium flow battery from the UK firm Invinity, in a long duration energy storage demonstration project overseen by the US Department of Energy

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Duke Energy Will Replace A Coal Generating Station With Battery Storage

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 04:53:12 +0000

Duke Energy is beginning to embrace grid scale battery storage after dancing around the idea for many years.

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A Case for Small Hydro

Credit to Author: Letters to the Editor| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:58:06 +0000

Harnessing renewable energy is a crucial step in building sustainable communities, and as climate change accelerates, finding carbon-free energy sources that are affordable, reliable, and can handle changes in policy, extreme weather events, and rising demand is more important than ever. One often-overlooked solution? Our rivers. Small hydroelectric turbines (“Small … [continued]

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Lessons For Europe & North America From Northvolt Collapse

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:50:39 +0000

The European Union lost a few things in the past week. The least of them was a couple of billion euros of loans and grants. A big one was a new supply of fresh and shiny Europe-made batteries. The biggest was a belief that anything China could do, they could … [continued]

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Finnish GTK Risks Credibility By Publishing Bad Minerals Study In Peer-Reviewed House Journal

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:02:17 +0000

A year ago I published an assessment of a quite remarkably bad, non-peer-reviewed paper by one of the Geological Survey of Finland’s (GTK) associate professors, Simon Michaux. The paper’s quite risible conclusions were that there wasn’t nearly enough metal in the ground to be able to electrify everything with renewables. … [continued]

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C&I Sector Must Diversify Power Sources to Lessen Costs, Supply Chain Risks

Credit to Author: Chuck Rames| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:33:48 +0000

Surging demand for electricity, soaring electricity prices, and risks to supply chains are creating an imperative for innovative ways to control energy costs, and increase resilience by diversifying commercial and […]

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BYD Popping Sales, Agrivoltaics Winning, US Manufacturing Boom — Top 14 Cleantech Stories

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 04:55:22 +0000

It’s time to catch up on the most interesting and most exciting cleantech stories of the past week. As it turns out, some of the top stories were also top stories in other recent weeks. But that’s just how big these stories are. There are several new stories as well, … [continued]

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