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HVDC Transmission Between Europe & North America Makes Fiscal Sense

December 18, 2024 admin Canada, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electricity transmission, Energy, Europe, green economy, green jobs, grid, hvdc, hydroelectric, investment, Manufacturing, policy & politics, renewable energy, Smart Grid, Solar energy, usa, wind energy

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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War, Wind Power, And The Green Way Forward For Ukraine

December 17, 2024 admin clean power, deep decarbonization, Energy, Europe, European Union, green economy, green hydrogen, green steel, green steelmaking, investment, Manufacturing, onshore wind farms, renewable energy, Russia, Ukraine, ukraine wind power, vestas, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 18:10:00 +0000

Wind power continues to add megawatts of clean power to the Ukrainian electricity grid, even as Russia continues its drive to demolish the country’s energy infrastructure.

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New Report Establishes Baseline for Clean Energy Deployment in Energy Communities

December 17, 2024 admin clean power, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, inflation reduction act of 2022., investment tax credit (itc), lawrence berkeley national laboratory, Manufacturing, market research, policy & politics, policy research, production tax credit, research, Solar energy, solar investment tax credit, wind energy, wind production tax credit

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:17:57 +0000

For the first time, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 included place-based federal tax incentives for projects located in “Energy Communities,” which might alter the economic equation of where projects should be located. Storage projects may be eligible for a 10-point increase in the Investment Tax Credit (e.g., from 30% … [continued]

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US DOE — Flurry of Solar & Wind Power Announcements

December 16, 2024 admin batteries, bipartisan infrastructure law, clean power, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, grid, heat pumps, jennifer granholm, Joe Biden, lighting, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, Puerto Rico, recycling, Smart Grid, Solar energy, subsidies, us department of energy (doe), wind energy, wind energy technologies office (weto), wind turbines

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 04:58:00 +0000

As Joe Biden’s time leading the United States approaches an end, various government agencies have been sprinting to get things done before they are at risk of being dropped and forgotten. Rather than try to cover each of these separately, let’s quickly roll through some of the announcements, and you … [continued]

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Join CleanTechnica on BlueSky!

December 16, 2024 admin bluesky, clean power, clean transport, consumer technology, Electric vehicles, elon musk, smartphone apps, Solar energy, Twitter, wind energy

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:06:08 +0000

Jennifer wrote a great piece about the fragmentation of the EV scene on social media a few weeks ago, pointing out all the challenges associated with getting the right messaging out in a universe of often purposefully biased media. The mass “X-odus” from Elon Musk’s social media platform continues, with … [continued]

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Slick Energy Storage Trick Deploys Ultra-Hot Bricks To Prick Carbon Bubble

December 16, 2024 admin clean power, decarbonization, deep decarbonization, electrified thermal solutions, Energy, Energy Storage, industrial, INDUSTRY, process heat, Solar energy, startups, thermal energy storage, thermal storage, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:04:39 +0000

Boston startup re-invents millennia-old firebricks for 21st century renewable energy storage and industrial decarbonization.

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AI, Data Centers, & Climate Risks

December 15, 2024 admin AI, Artificial Intelligence, clean power, data centers, electricity demand, Fossil Fuels, grid, policy & politics, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:21:56 +0000

The world has gone cuckoo for artificial intelligence. AI is virtually all you hear in the news these days. NVIDIA is worth a gazillion dollars because it manufactures the specialized computer chips that data centers need to make AI possible. Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Google are all rushing headlong … [continued]

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Wind & Solar Researcher: “We Are Actually Trying to Use the Natural Variability Itself to Address the Variability.”

December 14, 2024 admin clean power, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, grid, massachusetts institute of technology (mit), research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 03:52:43 +0000

Deciding where to build a solar or wind farm? MIT engineers show how detailed mapping of weather conditions and energy demand can guide optimization for siting renewable energy installations. Prior to now, there were few integrated sources for combining data from individual developers or utilities, which made it more guesswork … [continued]

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Clean Power Capacity Installations Up 86% In 2024 In USA

December 14, 2024 admin american clean power association, batteries, clean power, Energy Storage, market research, research, Solar energy, us solar, us wind, us wind power, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:37:36 +0000

The American Clean Power Association (ACP) has released a report on clean energy growth in the US in 2024. The report highlights a surge in deployment in the 3rd quarter — 10.2 gigawatts (GW) of new clean energy capacity. “This record-setting quarter positions the industry to achieve a historic year … [continued]

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India Solar Power Installations Growing 106% in 2024

December 14, 2024 admin clean power, grid, India, india solar, india solar power, india wind energy, india wind power, market research, Off The Grid, research, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar power plants, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:44:54 +0000

India continues to be a solar and wind powerhouse, no pun intended. In fact, its solar power installations have absolutely soared this year. Compared to the first three quarters of 2023, newly installed solar power capacity in the first three quarters of 2024 was up 106%. New wind power capacity … [continued]

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