Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 10:11:49 +0000
The U.S. was one of the world leaders in solar equipment manufacturing a few decades ago, but then the Chinese stole the show. Now, however, American companies are finding a lot of new opportunities as a
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:30:51 +0000
Grid operators across the U.S. report they are largely prepared for the total solar eclipse that will pass over a large swath of North America on April 8, though they […]
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Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 04:09:00 +0000
Sometimes fixing one problem causes another or leads to a chain of failures that can be difficult to diagnose. Consider all of the upstream and downstream impacts when changing equipment and/or operations
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Read moreCredit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 04:09:58 +0000
News on extreme weather events in the U.S. report an increase in both frequency and size over the last couple of years, including thunderstorms, tornadoes, convective storms, flash floods, hurricanes, […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:34:57 +0000
Unexpectedly steep financial losses suffered by the U.S. renewables market owing to a barrage of extreme weather events over the past summer suggest that project hardening strategies aren’t going far enough, a major renewables insurer is warning. GCube, an international insurer for wind, solar, wave, hydro, and tidal projects around the world in an update […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 18:25:17 +0000
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is urging the development of more diverse solar PV supply chains, suggesting the sector’s heavy reliance on China has led to imbalances that pose risks to its future growth. A dedicated study of the world’s solar PV supply chain issued by the Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organization on July 7 acknowledges that government […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tracey Lilly| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 05:00:30 +0000
The post THE BIG PICTURE [Infographic]: Solar’s Explosive Growth appeared first on POWER Magazine.
According to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) World Energy Outlook 2019, solar photovoltaic (PV) is set to become the largest source of installed electrical capacity in about 2035, if countries pursue policies as planned. By 2040, solar could make up 24% of global installed capacity—up from 7% in 2018—but its share of generation could hover […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 04:03:12 +0000
The post Why the 2010s Were a Definitive Decade for Power appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Every one of the 13 decades that POWER magazine has been in print has been definitive for electric generation technology, policy, and business in some significant way, but few have been as transformative as the 2010s. The decade opened just as the global economy began to crawl toward recovery from a historically unprecedented downturn that […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:09:53 +0000
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On May 16, 2019, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and Glendale Water and Power, through the Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA), received SCPPA’s approval on agreements with 8minute Solar Energy (8mSE) for the installation of a 300-MW/1,200-MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) located at 8mSE’s Eland Solar and Storage Center. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Anand Upadhyay| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 11:00:24 +0000
A few weeks back, Tennessee’s Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CMA) became the first US airport powered by 100% solar energy