Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 01:49:02 +0000
The Footprint Project and New Use Energy have teamed up to quickly provide Ukraine with solar microgrids. You may remember my interview with Footprint Project CEO Will Heegaard during the aftermath of Hurricane Ida. After my power came back on, I was able to get back online and write again. Will told me that Footprint […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 03:35:10 +0000
Tesla’s giant solar and energy facility near Las Vegas will power 60,000 homes with its 528,084 solar panels and 90 MW/360 MWh Tesla Megapack. The new facility, Arevon Townsite Solar and Storage, is in Boulder City, Nevada, and will generate 500,000 MWh of electricity per year. In the video, Tesla announced that Arevon has completed […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 01:48:01 +0000
New US Power Capacity by Source Renewable energy power plants continue to dominate new power capacity additions in the United States. In December, approximately 80% of new power capacity in the country came from renewables, following an even bigger month of November in which the split was 90% for renewables. For the full year, renewables […]
Credit to Author: Saurabh| Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:05:26 +0000
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has agreed to fund development of a 600-megawatt solar power park in India. According to media reports, the IFC will provide funding for development of infrastructure at a solar power park in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The park is being developed by TUSCO — a joint venture company between […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2022 04:10:20 +0000
A First-Ever Approach to Municipally Owned Floating Solar Emerges in Upstate New York Two city employees of Cohoes, New York, were brainstorming how to power the city’s municipal buildings with renewable energy, but few options made sense. Cohoes does not have acres of unused land for solar panels, and the slate-topped buildings cannot hold rooftop […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:51:00 +0000
California puts a new twist on the new field of agrivoltaics, with an ambitious plan for covering irrigation canals with solar canopies
Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 19:56:59 +0000
By Helen O’Shea On a windy, bright day in Lemoore, California another 250 megawatts of clean power was added to California’s energy mix with the dedication of the Aquamarine Solar Project. There are many new solar projects coming online across the country these days, but the Aquamarine project is notable for its innovative development model […]
Credit to Author: Anand Upadhyay| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 17:00:04 +0000
There has been a lot of discussion on the web on choosing between solar PV systems or trees in order to reduce one’s carbon emissions. Even beyond comparison to solar systems, quantifying the value of a tree has been coming up consistently nowadays
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:48:49 +0000
South Dakota dives into the solar energy pool while neighboring Wyoming struggles with carbon capture to keep coal power plants on life support
Credit to Author: Smiti| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:35:13 +0000
India is struggling to attract renewable energy companies to set up new projects. Multiple factors, like delays in setting up transmission support infrastructure, delays in payment by off-takers, threats of retrospective changes to power purchase agreements, and delays in regulatory approvals have pushed developers away from recent tenders