By Sophie Vorrath A new big battery, home battery incentives, and a battery-based VPP – all put on fast-track for Alice Springs with $2.1m funding boost from ARENA this week. The post Batteries, batteries, and more batteries: Alice Springs future grid plan gets ARENA boost appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more…
By Energy in Depth As Texas producers look ahead to the future, additional infrastructure – like pipelines – are needed to help facilitate a post-pandemic recovery and help drive important environmental and economic benefits. But proposed projects have faced significant opposition from fringe environmental activists promoting misinformation about the safety and importance of pipelines, and…
By Michael Mazengarb BHP reverses support for Australia’s use of Kyoto surplus credits, issues new set of standards on climate advocacy that puts lobby groups on notice. The post BHP backtracks dodgy ‘Kyoto surplus’ accounting trick, puts fossil fuel lobby groups on notice appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles:…
By STAN KAPLAN In addition to the big solutions — solar, wind, batteries, pipeline hydrogen — the future of power will likely also include many niche solutions. Here is an example. Click headline for full article Read Full Article Here For more great articles: The Energy Collective – The world’s best thinkers on energy &…
By [email protected] (Unknown) Hyundai Motor successfully demonstrated its leadership in electrified mobility as three KONA Electric vehicles set a new range record. Over the course of a three-day range mission, the pure electric subcompact SUVs each travelled 1,018.7, 1,024.1 and 1,026.0 kilometers (km), exceeding the goal of 1,000 km on a single battery charge. Each…
By Giles Parkinson Technology provider for world-leading Broken Hill micro-grid has yet to get finance for South Australia pilot project, and has also laid off its sole Australian employee. The post Storage proponent for huge Broken Hill micro-grid fails to land finance for pilot plant appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more…
By Michael Mazengarb AGL announced planning application for a big battery of up to 500MW at Liddell coal generator, and another big battery at the ageing Torrens gas generator near Adelaide. The post AGL seeks approval for 500MW big battery at site of Liddell coal generator appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For…
By Jay Stein As offices and businesses reopen after being shut down for the coronavirus pandemic, it’s incumbent upon owners and operators to upgrade heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to minimize virus transmission. There are certainly plenty of articles and whitepapers providing advice regarding how to do so. Most of these sources are…
In this test flight, Sunglider, the newly renamed UAS designed for stratospheric telecommunications platforms, reached altitudes higher than those of previous flights and maintained high altitudes for a long duration. Sunglider also successfully passed all test points, including flight speed changes, steep turns, automated flight control in the event of interrupted communications with the Ground…
By Terry Cooke The TEA Collaboration blog regularly posts on issues relating to U.S.-China clean energy cooperation. ‘The Sixty-Seven Percent Solution” is the latest post from that blog. It provides an overview of the past 12 years of official, Presidential-level cooperation as originally conceived and launched by Hank Paulson, President George W. Bush’s Treasury Secretary….
By Laurent Segalen Wind and Solar will keep their lead.Predicting the future is not easy, but some predictions are easier than others.The World Economic Forum convened experts from several organizations including IEA, IRENA, BNEF and IHS Markit as well as manufacturers and other energy leaders to agree the 2030 trajectory for wind and solar PV….
By [email protected] Loans accounted for 54 percent of the U.S. solar financing market in 2019, according to WoodMac’s new report — a 31 percent jump from 2018. All major solar loan providers experienced growth in 2019, and more installers are now offering loans to customers. Loanpal retained the top spot in the field, and both…
By [email protected] We’re constantly going through waves of hype in different energy sectors: flexible solar panels, vertical-axis wind, electric planes, vehicle-to-grid, the smart home, blockchain. Some are real, some are not. Some just need to mature. So what phase are we in now? In this episode, Shayle and Stephen are digging into different sectors and…
Researchers have designed an off-grid, low-cost modular energy source that can efficiently produce power at night. The system uses commercially available technology and could eventually help meet the need for nighttime lighting in urban areas or provide lighting in developing countries. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Solar Energy News — ScienceDaily
By Kelly Pickerel The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $20 million in funding to advance perovskite solar photovoltaic technologies. Perovskites are a family of materials with a specific crystal structure, named after the mineral with that structure. When used to create solar cells, they have shown potential for high performance and low production…