By Billy Ludt Sunpin Solar, a California-based solar developer, and Direct Energy Business, an energy and energy-related services providers, announced a renewable energy power purchase agreement (PPA) for the full output of the recently completed ColGreen North Shore Power Plant. The renewable energy PPA covers the full 96.75-MWdc/74.8-MWac capacity of the solar project and will…
By [email protected] The Tennessee Valley Authority has voted to close a coal-fired power plant that President Donald Trump took to Twitter to defend this week, yet another statistic in coal’s losing economic battle against natural gas and renewable energy alternatives, even in the heart of coal country. At a Thursday meeting in Nashville, Tenn., board…
At 9am on Tuesday morning this week I stood with Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti, members of the L.A. City Council, board members of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commission and long term colleagues from the climate justice action community to be part of a historic announcement.Brought to you by: EV Driven…
By Richard A. Kessler in Fort Worth Mayor Eric Garcetti believes his decision to scrap a $5bn plan to rebuild three power plants sounds the death knell for natural gas over time in nation’s second largest city Read Full Article Here For more great articles: www.rechargenews.com
By National Wind Watch New York City officials want to explore exactly how soon renewables and battery storage could displace natural gas as the Big Apple’s core source of backup power. A bill under consideration by the City Council’s environmental committee calls for sustainability authorities to study the storage potential of six battery types and…
By Jeremy Bloom When centrists insist we need to build more nuclear power plants as part of the decarbonization push to prevent climate change, they ignore two very important things: New nuclear power plants are fiendishly expensive and have a lousy track record of getting built on time. Or even at all. Southern Company’s Georgia…
By Saurabh The state government of Gujarat recently concluded another edition of its biennial Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit. The summit, once again, witnessed pledges being made for large-scale renewable energy deployment in the state, but these pledges need to be taken with a pinch of salt given the poor track record of such pledges…
By [email protected] Sunrun will get its chance to prove that home batteries and solar panels can stack up against traditional power plants. The San Francisco-based company won a 20 megawatt bid in the forward capacity auction for ISO New England, which operates the electric grid in six northeastern states. That auction ensures that enough grid…
By Jim Plouffe A green hydrogen power plant facility in South Australia is a step closer to completion with announcement of a generator supplier. The post Renewable hydrogen power plant step closer in Port Lincoln appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By Joshua S Hill The move is further proof of a shift away from traditional power generation technologies such as coal and nuclear towards renewable energy technologies. The post Japan scraps another coal-fired power plant appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By ENN Contributor Stakeholders said cutting greenhouse gases from transportation will be more complex than power plants.As a group of Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states begins to design a system to curb regional transportation emissions, planners are expected to turn to the decade-old Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as a model. Experts say the initiative can provide…
By Joshua S Hill China connects power plant that combines, wind, solar, concentrated solar PV and energy storage. The post China connects massive mixed-energy and battery storage system appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By Giles Parkinson Survey finds that modern “HELE” coal plants favoured by the Coalition and the coal lobby broke down more often than the ageing black coal fleet. The post Coal power plants in Australia broke down once every three days in 2018 appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles:…
By Michelle Froese Cleco Power released its proposed Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), which confirms that reducing the operation of the company’s oldest and dirtiest coal-burning power plant and adding up to 1,400 MW of clean energy will save its electricity customers millions — while reducing air and water pollution throughout the state. Cleco Power proposes…
Major PV single-axis tracker firm, NEXTracker has secured a major contract with Latin American renewables firm, Atlas Renewable Energy to deploy its ‘TrueCapture’ self-adjusting tracker control system across its fleet of PV power plants. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech