By [email protected] Consulting company McKinsey & Company and global oil major British Petroleum both recently released 2019 outlooks for the global energy sector, and though both forecast that renewables will grow markedly in the coming years, the results present sharply divergent understandings of just how much. McKinsey projects renewables will account for more than 50…
By [email protected] Consulting company McKinsey & Company and global oil major British Petroleum both recently released 2019 outlooks for the global energy sector, and though both forecast that renewables will grow markedly in the coming years, the results present sharply divergent understandings of just how much. McKinsey projects renewables will account for more than 50…
By Giles Parkinson & David Leitch Brett Redman, the head of AGL and operator of Australia’s biggest coal generation fleet says Australia is in the midst of a “massive” energy transition, and explains how he hopes to navigate his way through. The post Energy Insiders Podcast: AGL CEO Brett Redman on Australia’s “massive” energy transition…
By National Wind Watch Energy companies plan a giant renewable energy project in Morrow County, combining wind and solar power generation with battery storage. Plans for the facility have been in the works for nine years. On Wednesday, Portland General Electric said it wants to build the project with a big Florida company called NextEra…
By National Wind Watch The historic former Ford Motors factory in Geelong will be re-established as a manufacturing hub after Danish energy giant Vestas unveiled plans to build wind turbines on the site. Vestas has partnered with local manufacturer Marand Precision Engineering to build the turbines for Tilt Renewables’ Dundonnell wind farm and Global Power…
After China connected a huge battery to a project combining solar, wind and other generation sources, a US utility project has just been announced which will likewise combine solar and wind with a grid-scale battery. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
By [email protected] Two cleantech startups from Alphabet’s “moonshot factory” improved their odds of commercialization this week. Makani, which makes a kite-based wind power generation device, secured a partnership with Shell’s wind development arm to test the technology offshore. The deal makes Shell a minority shareholder in the startup, although further details of the terms were…
By National Wind Watch In dual announcements Tuesday, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association said it has named a new CEO and is adding its fifth utility-scale wind farm in Colorado. Westminster-based Tri-State, which serves member electric cooperatives in Colorado and other states, has named Duane Highley as its new CEO. Highley, the current president and…
Solar PV capacity will overtake wind within five years, according to a new forecast, but wind power generation will outpace that of solar. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Wind Power News & Analysis RSS Feed
The largest solar panel rooftop installation in the Baltic States recently started operations atop the RETAL factory in Lentvaris,- around 10 kilometres from the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. The installation has a total generation capacity of 1.4MW. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
By Michelle Froese GE Research has been awarded $5.8 MM in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA-E) for a three-year project to develop and demonstrate a super-fast DC Circuit Breaker that is essential for enabling next-generation MVDC grids. This project is part of a broader interest by…
By Michelle Froese Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association and EDP Renewables (EDPR) announce a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) that will enable the continued development and eventual construction of the 104-MW Crossing Trails Wind Farm. The project, which is expected to be operational in 2020, marks Tri-State’s fifth investment in a utility-scale wind energy project…
By Billy Ludt Tigo Energy, the creator of the Smart Modular Flex MLPE platform, unveiled the updates to its SMART Website, the company’s next-generation online monitoring platform. The SMART Website manages system-, string- and module-level data for utility, commercial and residential PV systems. System analytics track production, send alerts and proactively suggest maintenance actions to…
By Kelly Pickerel ZAF Energy Systems, a developer of next-generation battery technology, and Wirtz Manufacturing, an equipment designer and technology expert for the lead-acid battery market, are pleased to announce that Wirtz has made a strategic investment in ZAF Energy Systems. The investment will expand ZAF’s manufacturing capacity from hundreds of batteries per month to…
By [email protected] Irish grid-balancing prices soared to €3,774 ($4,284) per megawatt-hour last month amid growing concerns over dispatchable power capacity across Europe. The price spike, triggered by an alert regarding generation losses, came only four months after Ireland and Northern Ireland launched an Integrated Single Electricity Market (ISEM) designed to make trading more competitive and…