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ARIES: Energy Solutions at Any Scale

February 7, 2025 admin batteries, clean power, Energy Storage, grid, lithium-ion batteries, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), policy & politics, portland general electric (pge), Solar energy, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:50:24 +0000

Q&A With Annabelle Pratt: Using the Beauty of Mathematics To Answer Utility Challenges Welcome to the ARIES: Solutions at Any Scale series. This Q&A series introduces NREL’s outstanding researchers working on Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) projects. Their work helps answer questions about future energy systems for communities, companies, … [continued]

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Reducing Data Center Peak Cooling Demand and Energy Costs With Underground Thermal Energy Storage

February 6, 2025 admin batteries, data centers, Energy Storage, geothermal technologies office, lithium-ion batteries, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, thermal energy storage, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:31:36 +0000

As US Data Centers Continue To Grow, Integrating Geothermal UTES Cooling Could Change the Game As the demand for U.S. data centers grows with the expansion of artificial intelligence, cloud services, and big data analytics, so do the energy loads these centers require. By some estimates, data center energy demands … [continued]

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Introducing GeoBridge, a New Launch Point for Geothermal Information

February 6, 2025 admin clean power, geothermal energy, geothermal technologies office, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, policy & politics, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:20:03 +0000

A New Web Portal Developed by NREL and DOE Connects More Communities to Geothermal If you have ever struggled to find geothermal degree programs, conferences, trade associations, tax incentives, or other geothermal information, you are not alone. “The geothermal industry has been around for decades and is a well-established community … [continued]

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Hydrogen Buses Hurt The People They Are Meant To Help

February 6, 2025 admin California, Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric buses, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, fuel cell, fuel cell buses, green economy, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell buses, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:00:55 +0000

A sign of a great city is that the rich take public transit. Well, not really. They take light rail and subways. But they don’t take buses. In many cities, light rail systems attract a more affluent ridership compared to buses, highlighting a persistent disparity in public transit usage. Studies … [continued]

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Herding Cats — ORA Meetup in Western Australia

February 6, 2025 admin Australia, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, electric cars, Electric vehicles, great wall motor, great wall ora

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:38:23 +0000

We met the Great Wall ORA (called an ORA Cat in China) at the Noosa Electric Vehicle Expo on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast two years ago. Other articles on CleanTechnica you might like to check out are here and here. I was excited because at that time, it was the cheapest … [continued]

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Tesla Sales Plummet In Europe & California

February 6, 2025 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, EU, Europe, France, GERMANY, policy & politics, tesla, tesla sales

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:55:40 +0000

Tesla stock continues to trade at about a bazillion times earnings, but there are warning signs flashing for those who are thinking about what lies ahead for the company. Bloomberg Hyperdrive reports that Tesla sales plummeted 63 percent in January 2025 in France, the European Union’s second largest market for … [continued]

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How AI Feeds The Clean Energy Misinformation Machine

February 6, 2025 admin AI, algorithms, big-oil, chatgpt, Media, policy & politics, research

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:26:19 +0000

Social media has become an increasingly powerful tool for disseminating misinformation about clean energy. A growing number of Facebook groups, influencers, and various online forums make a living by spreading mis- and disinformation about renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and hydroelectric power. Safiya Umoja Noble, an AI expert at … [continued]

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China Responds to Trump Tariffs

February 6, 2025 admin China, clean transport, Coal, Donald Trump, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Fossil Fuels, natural gas, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:15:50 +0000

In response to Trump’s administration imposing new tariffs on Chinese goods, China has responded. However, make no doubt about it, China has been planning for this for a long time. “It’s aiming for finding measures that maximize the impact and also minimize the risk that the Chinese economy may face,” … [continued]

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Saudi Arabia Wants To Supply Europe With Green Hydrogen

February 6, 2025 admin #neom, clean power, cop 29, green economy, green hydrogen, hydrogen, Saudi Arabia, sefe acwa power, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:34:53 +0000

Germany is looking to companies in Saudi Arabia to supply it with green hydrogen made from renewable energy resources.

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Renewables + Storage Make Billions Of Dollars In Texas

February 6, 2025 admin clean power, INTERVIEWS, Solar energy, solar energy industries association (seia), texas

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:13:55 +0000

When a new Texas renewable energy report came out recently, Zach quickly wrote an article about it. I was in contact with the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and wanted to query the report’s author, Professor Rhodes, from the University of Texas at Austin. Texas is the second largest US … [continued]

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