Know your NEM week: NSW coal chaos and China’s solar bombshell
By David Leitch NSW coal closures, China’s solar bombshell, and falling lithium shares. Just another week in energy markets. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
Daily Archives: June 11, 2018
Canola oil processing to be powered with bioenergy
By ARENA On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA is providing $2 million in funding to MSM Milling Pty Ltd to help switch its LPG gas fired boilers to a biomass fuelled boiler. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
GreenSync welcomes new Chairman Mark Woodall
By GreenSync GreenSync is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Woodall as Chairman of the board, effective immediately. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
Swytch tests new blockchain renewable energy pilot program
By Michelle Froese Swytch, a blockchain-based clean energy incentive, and the Germany-based Energy2market GmbH (e2m), a provider of aggregated energy trading throughout Europe, announced a pilot program, which includes roughly 3.5 GW of wind, solar, hydro, and biogas energy capacity in Germany — which is enough to power over 500,000 homes. Swytch is a blockchain-based…
South Dakota PUC grants construction permit for 400-MW Crocker Wind Farm
By Michelle Froese The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission voted to grant a construction permit with conditions to Crocker Wind Farm to build a wind energy facility and associated 345-kV transmission line in Clark County. The wind farm will include up to 120 wind turbines and 5.2 miles of overhead transmission, and will have the…
Victoria’s newest wind farm starts production to the grid
By Giles Parkinson Victoria’s newest wind farm – Salt Creek – has begun exporting to the grid. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
UL releases May 2018 Wind Trends Bulletin
By Michelle Froese Renewable energy consultants, UL (formerly AWS Truepower) have released their Wind Trends Bulletin for May 2018. Monthly wind performance maps for May show deviations in the wind resource from average conditions for the month in every region of the world. The monthly Wind Trends Bulletin is based on a custom combination of…
Sonnen starts using household batteries to play in wholesale market
By Giles Parkinson Sonnen says it is using combined capacity of 2,500 residential batteries it has installed in Australia to play in wholesale markets. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
New PPA In Arizona Locks In Lowest Solar Prices In US As Demise Of Navajo Station Looms
By Steve Hanley A power purchase agreement signed June 7 in Arizona locks in the lowest solar energy prices yet in the US. The agreement is part of the plan to decommission the enormous Navajo Generating Station. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
Pope Francis, Bill McKibben, & Poor People’s Campaign Address Climate Change
By Steve Hanley Voices have been raised in the past few days about the urgent need to address fossil fuel use and climate change by Bill McKibben, the Poor People’s Campaign, and Pope Francis. Their message is clear and strong. But is anyone listening? Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
Porsche’s first fully electric sports car is named Taycan
Series production of the first purely electric Porsche is set to begin next year. In preparation, the vehicle has now been given its official name: The “Mission E” concept study, the name currently used to describe Porsche’s complete electric offering, will be known as the Taycan. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Electric…
Campus delivery robots
A UC Berkeley startup called Kiwi thinks they’ve cracked a way to efficiently use robots to deliver food to your door. The company plans to expand outside of Berkeley later this year. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Electric Vehicles Research
Tesla Director Of AI Discusses Programming A Neural Net For Autopilot (Video)
By Kyle Field Tesla’s Director of AI, Andrej Karpathy, took to the stage at TRAIN AI 2018 and then proceeded to unpack the company’s approach to building its Autopilot computer vision solution. His talk was titled, “Building the Software 2.0 Stack.” Andrej took on the task of delineating traditional rule-based programming methods from the programming…
Does It Really Matter If Tesla Has Refunded Nearly 25% Of US Model 3 Pre-Orders?
By Carolyn Fortuna How relevant are some claims that Tesla has returned 25% of its Model 3 deposits Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
The Photovoltaic Power Plants of the Future, According to DOE’s Solar Guru
By [email protected] Coal has taken center stage publicly within the Trump administration. But solar is the real innovation star behind the scenes. This week, we’re talking with Charlie Gay, the director of DOE’s solar technologies office, about all the activity happening in the agency. We’ll discuss the solar power plants of the future: advances in…