Green Hydrogen Cross-Border Collaborations Persist Despite Trump’s Trade War

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:33:57 +0000

Trump’s misbegotten trade war against Canada notwithstanding, leading hydrogen stakeholders continue to move forward with green hydrogen projects.

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The Biggest Machine In The World Is Being Rebuilt While It Continues To Run

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:10:29 +0000

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Mark O’Malley, Leverhulme Professor of Power Systems at the Imperial College of London and founder of the Global Power System Transformation organization, which was based on the principle of grids moving toward 100% renewables. The grid is the biggest machine in … [continued]

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Experts Anticipate Renewable Energy Will Overrun Trump’s Dopey “Energy Dominance” Policy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 04:06:51 +0000

So much winning! Renewable energy in general, and solar energy in particular, will overrun the dopey “energy dominance” policy expressed by President Trump.

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The Problem & Potential Of Hydropower

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:30:52 +0000

Mark Z. Jacobson from Stanford University has explained why investments in wind, water, and solar are the only feasible ways to convert the US and the world to clean energy. However, even the best technologies come with environmental impacts. With encouragement from the federal government, private industry has recently made … [continued]

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U.S. DOE Announces $15 Billion Loan Guarantee to Pacific Gas & Electric Company to Expand Hydropower Generation, Battery Energy Storage, & Transmission

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:51:32 +0000

Section 1706 Loan Guarantee Will Maintain Affordability for Customers and Improve System Resilience and Reliability As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced today the closing of a $15 billion loan guarantee to Pacific Gas & Electric Company … [continued]

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China Hits EV Target 10 Years Early, Still Hasn’t Reached 2020 Nuclear Target

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:20:27 +0000

On October 27th of 2020, the China Society of Automotive Engineers laid out a roadmap for how the country was going to achieve 50% of all cars sold in 2035 being fully electric, plug-in hybrid, or hydrogen, with 95% of them of course being fully electric. Per projections from HSBC, … [continued]

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Big Tata Power Clean Energy Projects in Bhutan & India

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 23:42:03 +0000

India has been a major market for clean energy deployment — solar energy and wind energy deployment. It’s been much less successful stimulating the electric vehicle market. Tata Group is India’s largest business conglomerate. It’s enormous, selling various products and services in more than 160 countries. One of its companies … [continued]

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HVDC Transmission Between Europe & North America Makes Fiscal Sense

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:29:02 +0000

As someone who spends a lot of time looking at HVDC electricity interconnectors globally, and holding the position that HVDC is the new pipeline, I’m very pleased with the latest Ember report, Security and efficiency: The case for connecting Europe and North America. Let’s step back. I’m sure many of … [continued]

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Dam Removal Revitalizes Salmon In Win For Native Tribes

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:45:14 +0000

If you read One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest years ago, you may recall how Chief Bromden’s psychosis originated with the loss of his people’s fishing habitat due to the construction of a monstrous dam. Ken Kesey brought the loss of annual fish runs of the Columbia River, estimated at … [continued]

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A Case for Small Hydro

Credit to Author: Letters to the Editor| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:58:06 +0000

Harnessing renewable energy is a crucial step in building sustainable communities, and as climate change accelerates, finding carbon-free energy sources that are affordable, reliable, and can handle changes in policy, extreme weather events, and rising demand is more important than ever. One often-overlooked solution? Our rivers. Small hydroelectric turbines (“Small … [continued]

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