Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:55:01 +0000
Data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity. They promise to use only renewable energy, but is that realistic?
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:40:38 +0000
Google has signed an agreement with NV Energy, part of the Warren Buffett empire, to buy 115 MW of renewable energy from a geothermal facility operated by Fervo Energy to power its data centers in Nevada. A lot has been written lately, particularly here at CleanTechnica, about data centers and … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:08:51 +0000
Mention electric cars, and some people will go off on a tirade about how there is not enough electricity to charge them all, and if they happened to be charging at the same time, the electrical grid will implode as transmission wires melt and transformers self-destruct in a shower of … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 16:16:53 +0000
Google, Amazon, Meta, and other data center operators are finding ways to use the heat they generate to benefit communities.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 20:16:45 +0000
If you drive an electric vehicle that’s not a Tesla, then you have experienced the tension that comes with leaving home for trips and wondering if there will be a charger on your route. We know that there is no retail category where a driver can be confident that an … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:32:13 +0000
An Arizona utility plans to build a battery energy storage system (BESS) that will help it store more of the region’s abundant solar energy, enabling the power to be used […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:02:02 +0000
The power grid is stressed. Aging infrastructure is a problem, exacerbated by extreme weather events that increasingly threaten reliability and result in outages. The integration of more renewable energy resources, […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 13:19:22 +0000
Solar power is not just for rich people, but it’s not free and you typically need to show a decent credit score to finance it. As with many things in life, the less wealthy people in society are left behind a bit as we transition into this cleaner, more financially sensible (in the long term) […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:55:57 +0000
Google & LevelTen Energy are dialing the renewable energy industry up to 11 with a new streamlined system for negotiating power purchase agreements.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:15:05 +0000
Sol Systems is partnering with Google to bring more renewable energy to the Carolinas in a way that promotes social justice.