By Dr. Jim Green Murdoch papers and Murdoch’s Sky News have ramped up their campaign to have nuclear laws repealed, and far-right Coalition MPs and former MPs are along for the ride. The post Legislation banning nuclear power in Australia should be retained appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles:…
By Michael Mazengarb Bad weather, Covid and a surging Australian dollar leads New Energy Solar to report $74m loss for 2020 – but the ASX-listed solar investor remains optimistic. The post New Energy Solar optimistic despite wild weather, bushfires and Covid-19 impacts appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew…
By Joshua S Hill Trina Solar launches new business unit focused on providing solar and storage solutions, grid services, and microgrids. The post Trina Solar launches battery storage business appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By Giles Parkinson Google’s decision to snub RenewEconomy – apparently because it does not do “public interest” journalism – and include Sky News and a celebrity gossip site on its showcase, bodes ill for Australian media. The post Morrison’s media code could be catastrophic for climate and energy news appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full…
By Ketan Joshi A clean powered world will be better than a fossil fuelled one, but there’s still room for improvement in the human rights space. The post How the clean energy revolution can tackle the human rights challenge appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By Ketan Joshi Did you know that Texas isn’t even that great a performer in terms of proportion of wind power? Here’s every state that’s better! The post Chart of the day: Every US state with more wind power than Texas appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By Richard Brooks As a consumer, and former employee of an ISO familiar with capacity markets, I completely agree with NYISO. I’ll take reliable grid electricity at the cost of a few dollars per month for capacity payments over scarcity pricing, like they have in Texas charging consumers $17,000 for 3 days of electricity (that’s…
By Giles Parkinson Neoen lands $160 million in finance from CEFC to fund the Victoria Big Battery, which will be the biggest in Australia. The post Neoen lands $160 million in CEFC finance for Australia’s biggest battery appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By Simon Goess Originally published here and co-authored by Sila Akat. The year 2020 was marked by the corona pandemic. The energy industry was also badly affected by the effects of the pandemic and the various lockdowns. As things stand, the winners are renewables, especially in the PPA area, but also hydrogen as the industry’s…
By [email protected] The U.S. could double its capacity for new wind and solar power, save billions of dollars and cut millions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions from its generation fleets, if federal incentives can be aligned to deploy a suite of technologies to unlock the full capacity of transmission grids. So says a new…
By Kelly Pickerel GRID Alternatives and Bank of America have renewed their partnership to support GRID’s SolarCorps Fellowship Program. A $300,000 grant from Bank of America is helping to fund the SolarCorps Fellowship Program, which has up to 40 SolarCorps Fellows complete one-year, full-time paid positions focusing on solar installation, community outreach and workforce development…
By Kelsey Misbrener Solar Energy International (SEI) is helping two Colorado communities kickstart solar markets through the Solar Forward Program in Q1 of 2021. The Town of Nederland, located in Boulder County, and the entirety of Garfield County will implement holistic solar market development programs in their communities. Solar Forward provides the framework and materials…
By Gerard Reid Why are engineers, politicians and financiers talking about Hydrogen all the time? And why are they throwing billions of subsidies or investment in companies in that sector?Is Hydrogen a problem, with its hundreds of millions tonnes of CO2 emissions per year or a “Swiss Army Knife” solution that will help decarbonise Mobility,…
By [email protected] Exelon Corp. announced plans Wednesday to separate its financially challenged nuclear power plant fleet and other generation assets from its multistate regulated utilities business. The plan, which will require approval from federal and state regulators, would separate Exelon’s six regulated electric and gas utilities, dubbed “RemainCo,” from its competitive power generation and retail…
By Renewable Energy World Colombian power generator Isagén has completed the acquisition of two small hydroelectric plants with a total capacity of 39.8 MW from Generadora Luzma. In a statement, the Medellín-based firm did not provide details of the transaction but said the Luzma I and Luzma II facilities in northwestern Antioquia department formed part…