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Solar Power Booming All Around, Chinese EVs Expanding, US EV Charging Infrastructure Boom — Top Cleantech News

December 18, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, batteries, China, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev sales, floating solar power, floating solar power plants, grid, grid storage, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, policy & politics, Solar energy, solar power plants, tesla, tesla model y, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:45:23 +0000

December has been absolutely packed with big cleantech stories. The solar power and electric vehicle markets keep growing fast, evolving, and even surprising. To be honest, when I write these weekly and bi-weekly news highlights, there are ends up being far more big and noteworthy news than I expect. It … [continued]

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Electrified Freight: Trucking Will Grow & Big Logistics Players Will Dominate

December 17, 2024 admin batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, clean trucks, climate change, electric truck, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev charging, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microgrids, renewable energy, rooftop solar, Solar energy, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 02:23:18 +0000

Key takeaways Delivering inexpensive, reliable electric truck charging requires scale Major logistics, truck stop and turn-key services firms have the scale and will lead the way The big firms that embrace this will increase market share Movement of freight in the United States (U.S) is going to shift more and … [continued]

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Using Hot Water to Balance the Grid

December 17, 2024 admin agl, arena, Australia, australian renewable energy agency (arena), demand response, energy efficiency, grid, heat pump water heaters, heat pumps, Smart Grid, smart meters, south australia

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:42:15 +0000

The humble electric hot water system, hidden usually in a corner of the garage, or even sometimes stuck outside the house in Australia, is being repurposed to balance the grid. For years, we have used tariff 33 to switch on our hot water systems at night for lower-cost electricity from … [continued]

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

December 16, 2024 admin clean power, electricity transmission, grid, hvdc transmission lines, inflation reduction act of 2022., midcontinent independent system operator (miso), MISO, Oregon, policy & politics, ron wyden, Solar energy, sunstone solar, transmission, Transmission Lines, vista sands solar, wisconsin

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

December 16, 2024 admin batteries, bipartisan infrastructure law, clean power, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, grid, heat pumps, jennifer granholm, Joe Biden, lighting, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, Puerto Rico, recycling, Smart Grid, Solar energy, subsidies, us department of energy (doe), wind energy, wind energy technologies office (weto), wind turbines

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

December 16, 2024 admin american clean power association, batteries, clean power, consumer technology, Energy Storage, grid, lithium-ion batteries, market research, policy research, research, Solar energy, wood mackenzie

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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AI, Data Centers, & Climate Risks

December 15, 2024 admin AI, Artificial Intelligence, clean power, data centers, electricity demand, Fossil Fuels, grid, policy & politics, Solar energy, wind energy

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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Wind & Solar Researcher: “We Are Actually Trying to Use the Natural Variability Itself to Address the Variability.”

December 14, 2024 admin clean power, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, grid, massachusetts institute of technology (mit), research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 03:52:43 +0000

Deciding where to build a solar or wind farm? MIT engineers show how detailed mapping of weather conditions and energy demand can guide optimization for siting renewable energy installations. Prior to now, there were few integrated sources for combining data from individual developers or utilities, which made it more guesswork … [continued]

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India Solar Power Installations Growing 106% in 2024

December 14, 2024 admin clean power, grid, India, india solar, india solar power, india wind energy, india wind power, market research, Off The Grid, research, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar power plants, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:44:54 +0000

India continues to be a solar and wind powerhouse, no pun intended. In fact, its solar power installations have absolutely soared this year. Compared to the first three quarters of 2023, newly installed solar power capacity in the first three quarters of 2024 was up 106%. New wind power capacity … [continued]

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The Sunshine State Projected to Take Over as Top-Ranked Residential Solar State in 2028

December 12, 2024 admin clean power, EDF, environmental defense fund, Florida, florida solar energy, fpl (florida power & light), grid, market research, nextera energy, research, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar panels, solar power plants, solar prices, utilities

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 02:40:57 +0000

Florida, the Sunshine State, has wide-open skies and plenty of light — everywhere. Unsurprisingly, Florida businesses and people continue to vote with their dollars in support of solar power. Florida has installed the second most solar power capacity in the country in 2024, only trailing Texas. According to new research, … [continued]

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