Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 05:16:00 +0000
Solar + wind, solar + storage, wind + storage—even fossil fuels combined with renewable energy—are supporting the growth of hybrid power plants that are breaking the norms of traditional power generation
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 19:48:17 +0000
A pilot project in the waters off China, featuring two floating solar power arrays connected to a transformer on a moored offshore wind turbine, will test the viability of the technology in an area prone to typhoons. China’s government-owned State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) on Nov. 1 announced it had commissioned the project, calling it […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:57:22 +0000
Economic development can be a challenge for leaders in rural communities. Often, it’s hard to attract businesses to rural areas because the local workforce may not have the skills or numbers required to meet companies’ needs. But opportunities that haven’t been widely available in the past exist today for rural communities due to the energy […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:14:00 +0000
Governments and power generators continue to work to improve access to electricity on the African continent. Engie Energy Access, a subsidiary of French energy major Engie, recently signed a $60 million
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:19:00 +0000
When Swedish company Vattenfall in 2018 set out to combine wind, solar, and battery storage resources at this pioneering energy park in the Netherlands, its foremost focus was to demonstrate a clean energy
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:13:00 +0000
An Australia-based company is designing a project that combines multiple power generation technologies into a system that not only creates electricity but also can result in production of hydrogen. Sunshine
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:29:23 +0000
Hybrid power plants continue to be deployed across the U.S., with almost 300 such facilities (all with 1 MW or more of generation capacity) operating at the end of last year. An August 2022 report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, based on research funded by the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) and […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 15:43:22 +0000
Renewable energy in Turkey will get a boost from a hybrid wind and solar power installation led by GE Renewable Energy. The project will integrate a 30-MW solar array with a 32-MW wind farm that was commissioned in 2020 by Sertavul, a Turkish energy company. Sertavul chose GE and Inogen, GE’s regional partner, to build […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Bill Derasmo| Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 12:44:32 +0000
The perfect storm of crises and policy directives have converged to create the energy storage moment. Between the drive to reduce carbon output to “net zero” over the coming decades and the commodity crisis created by the conflict in Ukraine (including its impact on the supply and price of oil and natural gas), the pressure […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Mary Hutzler| Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 04:11:00 +0000
Major cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, and New York have either enacted or proposed measures to ban or discourage the use of natural gas in new homes and buildings, just a few years after
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