By Elizabeth Ingram Research firm Wood Mackenzie says it anticipates the global wind power industry will install 1 TW of new capacity between 2021 and 2030. The world set a new record in wind installations in 2020 and saw a number of national and regional targets set for 2030, underscoring the important role of wind…
By Renewable Energy World By Diane Kim, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Ignacio Navarrete, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and Jessica Dutton, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Giant kelp, the world’s largest…
By Jennifer Runyon Energy workers are paid more, their jobs came back more quickly, and they have greater growth opportunities than almost any other sector, new report finds. Putting people to work in the energy industry will reap more benefits for the U.S. economy than putting people to work in almost any other sector. That’s…
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By Charley Rattan Three industrial consortia that will link together to deliver deep reductions in industrial emissions on the east coast of England have been awarded funding as part of the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge under the UK Research and Innovation’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF).The three bids amount to £229 million in private and public…
By Royce Kurmelovs Labor proposes funding batteries to allow households with solar power to pool excess electricity. Here’s what you need to knowIn what might be the most attention the battery world has had since Elon Musk built South Australia’s giant battery, Labor has announced that if they win the next election they will front…
By SPW By Pete Cleveland, VP of Solar Business, EagleView. Originally published on eagleview.com. Demand for home solar soared in 2020, according to recent Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BloombergNEF) research, with U.S. residential solar installations jumping 21% in the first seven months of this year compared to the same period in 2019. And in its…
By Energy Innovation Heavy-duty trucks are an outsized polluter, considered one of transportation’s hardest-to-decarbonize aspects. But new research showing dramatic improvements in battery cost and technology mean zero-emission freight trucks are primed for electrification. This could bring a major clean energy success in the coming decade.The total cost of ownership for electric freight trucks could…
By Kelsey Misbrener The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Labor are awarding the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) with up to $8.2 million for its project to provide clean energy job training to unemployed and low-wage workers, increase participants’ wages, and to evaluate the training’s effectiveness….
By Elizabeth Ingram Over the past four years, the wind contribution to the energy generation mix in the state of Victoria has grown significantly. In fact, research from Cornwall Insight Australia shows, on average, across the entire day in 2020, wind delivered 14% of the energy generation mix in the state, doubling its output from…
By WPED Staff Offshore wind has the potential to deliver 90% of America’s projected 2050 electricity demand. This finding comes from “Offshore Wind for America,” a new report released by Environment America Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group which examines U.S. offshore wind potential by coastal region and by state. Offshore Wind for America…
By [email protected] (Bengt Halvorson) Ohio-based Lordstown Motors started its first-ever call with investors, as a publicly traded company, with a strange twist: It is being probed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission The SEC inquiry stems from a report issued by the activist short-seller Hindenburg Research, claiming that Lordstown has been faking orders for…
By Kelly Pickerel The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced up to $20 million for research and development that will advance the manufacturability of mid-sized flow battery systems. With this funding opportunity, DOE will partner with industry to address technical and manufacturing challenges that have prevented flow battery systems from achieving cost targets and…
By Jennifer Runyon Today, Solar FlexRack, a division of Northern States Metals announced that it supplied its tracker solution for Jack’s Solar Garden, a 1.2-MW community solar farm and the largest agrivoltaic research project in the U.S., located in Boulder County, Colorado. The solar project was designed and built by Namasté Solar. Jack’s sits on…
By Billy Ludt Solar FlexRack, a division of Northern States Metals and a photovoltaic mounting and solar tracker solutions provider, has supplied its TDP Turnkey Solar Trackers for Jack’s Solar Garden, a 1.2-MW solar farm project and the largest “agrivoltaic” research project in the United States. Located in Boulder County, Colorado, the solar installation was…