Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:55:35 +0000
Wind energy investors are finding a friendly home in Texas, partly on account of the rising demand for electricity from oil and gas operations.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:15:27 +0000
Wind turbines that resemble model airplanes will run around an oval track in Wyoming to generate electricity, in a pilot project supported by private, state, and federal investors.
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:58:18 +0000
Queensland is known in Australia as the Sunshine State, and rightly so. At this time, on a Sunday afternoon, the state is producing about 50% of its electricity from sunshine — pure yellow stuff. Where it has fallen down in the renewable transition is the use of its vast land … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:54:20 +0000
The distributed wind market is growing both in size and variety, according to a new PNNL-led report An electric vehicle manufacturer, two schools and two Alaskan villages: these are just some of the organizations using wind turbines to help meet their energy needs. For the last eight months, researchers from … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:17:27 +0000
The wind repowering movement is enabling states like Pennsylvania to maximize less-than-optimal wind resources and squeeze more energy from aging wind farms.
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 23:14:57 +0000
NREL’s Wind Expertise Highlighted at Biannual TORQUE Conference In May 2024, amidst ancient marble statues and sweeping centuries-old frescoes, a group of researchers came together to talk about something decidedly more modern: wind energy technologies. The biannual TORQUE Conference, organized by the European Academy of Wind Energy and held this year … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: NRDC| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 22:03:34 +0000
New Report Shows Coal Plants Earned $1 Billion for Running While Wind Was Available, Cheaper in MISO Territory Adding to a growing field of research, the new report, The Consumer and Environmental Costs from Uneconomically Dispatching Coal Plants in MISO, reveals new details about the impact of aging, uncompetitive coal plants … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:00:59 +0000
Achieving a clean energy future is going to take energy of all kinds, and every little bit helps. Enter distributed energy resources (DERs), which generate, store, and manage power locally for energy users. Wind energy technology applied as a DER—known as distributed wind—is ideal for a wide range of customers. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 20:23:48 +0000
Companies Will Work To Boost Clean Energy Options for Farmers, Small Business Owners, and Electric Co-Ops With U.S. Department of Energy Competitiveness Improvement Project Funding The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced plans to award $3.15 million to 12 American component suppliers and manufacturers of small- … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:45:26 +0000
State and/or local government involvement in renewable energy development varies widely across the United States. A new report funded by DOE, in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Regulatory Assistance Project, Clean Air Task Force, and others, inventories and simplifies the complex state-level policies of all 50 states, plus … [continued]
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