By Kyle Field ABB has won a $330 million contract to supply new high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converters that will enable the efficient transmission of electricity from hydroelectric power plants in Tajikistan to consumers in Pakistan Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
By Joshua S Hill Two-fifths of China’s coal power plants are losing money according to a new “revolutionary” satellite-based methodology designed to assess climate risk from fossil fuel plants launched this week by Carbon Tracker, which also showed that plant owners could save nearly $390 billion by closing plants in line with the Paris Climate…
By Joshua S Hill Australian banking giant Macquarie Group has joined a consortium of renewable energy leaders including Intercontinental Energy, Vestas, and CWP Energy Asia in investing in the Asian Renewable Energy Hub, a wind and solar hybrid power plant set to be built in Australia’s northwest which has been expanded once again to over…
By Darius Snieckus in London US developer Solar Wind Energy Tower says tests pave way for an ‘integrated solution that would be financially feasible and profitable’ Read Full Article Here For more great articles: www.rechargenews.com
PV project developer and EPC firm, juwi Renewable Energy has entered the Vitenam market after securing contracts to build two large-scale PV power plants in Ninh Thuan province, Vietnam. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
Major China-based PV manufacturer Risen Energy has secured a 50MW PV power plant through India’s Shapoorji Pallonji Group, a private infrastructure development company to be built Vietnam. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
By [email protected] New Jersey’s Public Service Enterprise Group this week doubled down on claims that only state subsidies can save its three nuclear power plants. The comments come just a week after the group’s electric and gas utility presented a plan to invest $4.1 billion in clean energy. PSEG’s push toward less carbon-intensive power, coupled…
By Michelle Froese To download a copy of the study, click here. The Business Renewables Center (BRC), a program of Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), released a case study that offers insights on how Cummins Inc., a global power equipment manufacturer, has enabled a new large-scale renewable energy project that offers the greatest opportunities for positive…
By [email protected] President Donald Trump has nominated Bernard McNamee to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), seeking to put a chief proponent of the Energy Department’s coal and nuclear bailout efforts on the same commission that has unanimously rejected these efforts over the past year. Environmental groups were quick to decry McNamee’s choice to replace…
By [email protected] PJM, the country’s biggest grid operator, has filed a plan for remaking its capacity markets. The plan would put state-subsidized wind, solar or nuclear power plants in a separate class from other resources to meet the terms of a controversial Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order from June. PJM’s plan is drawing fire from…
By [email protected] The Trump administration has made shoring up existing nuclear power plants a key — and controversial — component of its energy agenda. But it’s also looking ahead to the next generation of nuclear reactor technology. On Friday, President Trump signed the Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act (NEICA), which passed earlier last month with…
By Michelle Froese ACCIONA Energía has applied the first system of its kind at its wind power facility in Barásoain and at its solar plant in Tudela, both located in Navarre, northern Spain. ACCIONA Energía has applied blockchain technology to certify the 100% renewable origin of the energy fed into the grid from its two…
By [email protected] A federal court has upheld the legality of New York’s zero-carbon emissions program for nuclear power plants, the second decision this month bolstering the rights of states to set their own energy policies without overstepping federal authority. Thursday’s decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit found that New York’s…
By [email protected] Nuclear power is in retreat. In the United States, high technology costs, slow demand growth, and competition from natural gas and renewables have dampened the prospects of building new, large nuclear reactors. Georgia is currently building the only new conventional nuclear power plant in the country, which is five years behind schedule and…
By Sener is about to start the final tests at Noor Ouarzazate III, after completing, last August, the first synchronization of the 150 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant to the Moroccan grid. The post The 150 MW Noor Ouarzazate III solar tower power plant with storage system accomplished the first synchronization appeared first on…