By [email protected] California community choice aggregator (CCA) Monterey Bay Community Power has signed a memorandum of understanding to explore buying the power from a 1,000-megawatt floating offshore wind farm. It’s an early, if no-stakes, claim to what could be a massive offshore wind opportunity set to open via federal offshore lease auction next year, assuming…
By [email protected] Price pressure and fierce competition made waves in the solar inverter market in 2018. The total revenue for the top five global PV inverter vendors underwent a year-over-year decline of 10 percent last year, according to a new Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables report. Although global PV inverter shipments will continue to rise,…
By [email protected] Floating PV panels could be headed out to sea amid growing interest in offshore solar. Last month, a Belgian consortium including Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME), Tractebel, Jan De Nul Group, Soltech and Ghent University announced plans to build a solar farm in the North Sea, in combination with offshore wind or…
By [email protected] Rising economic nationalism in the U.S. and China is dominating news headlines and making waves across the global economy. Less appreciated is the threat it poses to the energy transition. Already a dim prospect, the odds of keeping global warming to 2 degrees Celsius are getting darker as a result of the deepening…
By Michael Mazengarb Carnegie Clean Energy seeks $5.5 million from investors as it tries to recapitalise and re-boot its wave energy technologies. The post Carnegie puts out call to investors as it seeks to reboot wave energy plans appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By National Wind Watch VALLEY VIEW – About 20 citizens wanted to hear more about the potential for a wind farm to be erected in their Hegins Township neighborhood Tuesday. What they discovered was their inquiries to Nicholas Cohen, principal of Clean Air Generation LLC, of Waverly, were a little premature. Tuesday’s hearing before the…
By WPED Contributor By Cherise Gaffney, Tim Taylor & Chad Marriott Partners, Stoel Rives LLP . In 2018, policymakers set a goal of 100% clean energy in California by 2045. One way to meet or beat that timeline? Offshore wind. An American Jobs Project report finds that offshore wind industry could support over 17,500 jobs…
By National Wind Watch In June the administration of Gov. Phil Murphy made a splash at the shore when the state board of public utilities approved a $1.6 billion wind farm 15 miles off the coast of Atlantic City. Local environmental officials say the rippling waves of that announcement could soon be felt in the…
By Tim Probert SME gets Nova Scotia tidal green light Read Full Article Here For more great articles: reNEWS – Renewable Energy News
By [email protected] China’s JinkoSolar expects bifacial modules to become the “mainstream” choice in the solar market in the coming years, as the technology rides a wave of optimism following its exemption from U.S. import tariffs. Last month the U.S. unexpectedly offered an exclusion for bifacial modules from the Trump administration’s tariffs on most imported solar…
By John Benson Further to:Emerging Negative Effects of Climate Change – Part 2, Stuck AgainSee this link to a CNN report on the impacts of the current event on Europe. Click headline for full article Read Full Article Here For more great articles: The Energy Collective – The world’s best thinkers on energy & climate
By Joshua S Hill Australian-founded SIMEC Atlantis Energy will partner with General Electric’s Power Conversion business to develop the world’s largest tidal stream turbine. The post SIMEC Atlantis partners with GE on world’s largest tidal stream turbine appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By Leigh Collins IN DEPTH | Wave technology is inherently inefficient, and while tidal energy is expensive, it is useful because of its predictability, Michael Liebreich tells Recharge. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: www.rechargenews.com
By Vladimir Vinogradov REUTERS wrote.Construction delays and cost blowouts could hit the next wave of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects as there are a limited number of contractors able to handle the huge projects, three developers said on Wednesday.Around $200 billion in projects across the globe from Australia to the United States are racing to…
By Tim Probert Minesto wins €1m tidal boost Read Full Article Here For more great articles: reNEWS – Renewable Energy News