By Renewable Energy World The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has announced two winners of the Groundbreaking Hydro Prize, which challenged innovators to come up with new solutions to support hydropower project development by starting at square one — the foundation. The foundation of a hydropower system provides structural stability,…
By Rao Konidena On March 4, MISO filed a request to extend the deadline to implement a market participation model for electric storage resources at FERC. This new request moves the implementation date from June 2022 to March 2025. FERC should reject this request because the benefits of keeping wholesale rates just and reasonable with…
The US’s wind and solar fleet is set to nearly triple in the next ten years, according to new analysis. But this will not be enough to decarbonise the power sector by 2035 Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Wind Power News & Analysis RSS Feed
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 BMR Energy, a Virgin Group company and developer, owner, and operator of clean energy projects in the Caribbean and Latin America, announced today that it is starting construction of the 6.4-megawatt (MWp) Donoe Solar farm on St. Thomas. The facility is expected to be completed and enter service in the fourth…
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…
Critics argue making renewable energy operators pay for grid balancing services is based on wrong assumption they were to blame for Texas blackouts Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Wind Power News & Analysis RSS Feed
By Renewable Energy World Akuo, an independent renewable energy power producer and developer, announces that it has completed the acquisition of five small hydroelectric plants in Bulgaria with total installed capacity of 15.5 MW. Akuo purchased the plants, on the Iskar River near Svoghe, from PVB Power Bulgaria. These assets, whose names were not disclosed,…
By Renewable Energy World This week Ameresco announced a new partnership with Holy Cross Energy (HCE) for a solar and battery energy storage project, which will use land leased from Colorado Mountain College at its Spring Valley Campus. Holy Cross Energy signed a PPA with Ameresco which means Ameresco will design, build, operate and maintain…
By Renewable Energy World Blue Ridge Energy, a member-owned electric cooperative serving northwest North Carolina, said it picked Oriden LLC to develop an 11-MW solar project as part of its Brighter Future initiative. This project will provide a local generation source and allow Blue Ridge Energy to work towards its goals of achieving a 50…
Windpower Intelligence recorded several large onshore wind farms being commissioned in the US, India and New Zealand last month Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Wind Power News & Analysis RSS Feed
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…
By Elizabeth Ingram The world added more than 260 GW of renewable energy capacity last year, exceeding expansion in 2019 by close to 50%, despite the economic slowdown that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). IRENA’s annual Renewable Capacity Statistics 2021 shows that renewable energy’s share…
By Renewable Energy World Project development team is made up of more than 30% women, an industry first. In southeastern Texas surrounded by farmland, Rosendin’s Renewable Energy Group (REG) has begun building the largest solar power project in the state. The 500-MWac/631-MWdc Aktina Renewable Power Project calls for the installation of 1.4 million solar modules…
By Renewable Energy World Wärtsilä announced that it received a contract to supply an engineered equipment delivery (EEQ) of a 40-MW / 80-MWh DC-coupled storage system to the 200-MW Hickory Park Solar project in Georgia, USA. Project owner RWE Renewables said with the addition of the dispatchable storage solution, it will be able to sell…