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We Have Toxic Winter Air Again On The Utah Wasatch Front. What Are We Doing About It?

December 13, 2024 admin air quality, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Solar energy, Utah, wind energy

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:34:08 +0000

In winter on the Utah Wasatch Front, on average we have 5 days, particularly in Salt Lake County, when the air is unsafe to breathe. There are another 18 days, on average, when the air is only “bad” to breathe. You will find naysayers like our President Elect who will … [continued]

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Renewable Energy-On-Rails Scheme To Cure Transmission Line Blues

December 11, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, electricity transmission, Energy, energy innovation, Energy Storage, lfp batteries, lithium iron phosphate, lithium iron phosphate battery, railroads, Railway, renewable energy, Solar energy, startups, suntrain, Transmission Lines, us department of energy (doe), usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 01:57:33 +0000

SunTrain is planning a new mobile energy storage system that collects renewable energy where available and ships it where needed, using existing railways instead of transmission lines.

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Clean Energy Cybersecurity, Clean Energy Tech Startups, and Clean Energy & Manufacturing Innovation in Underserved Communities

December 9, 2024 admin clean power, Cybersecurity, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), policy & politics, Puerto Rico, Solar energy, subsidies, us department of energy (doe), wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 04:59:50 +0000

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is out with another round of cleantech announcements today. Clean Energy Cybersecurity First of all, the Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator (CECA) program, working with the US DOE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) as well as some utilities, is moving forward … [continued]

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Superconducting Transmission CEO Talks Grids In Brussels

December 9, 2024 admin carbon emissions, clean power, climate change, electric grid, electricity transmission, Energy, Europe, green economy, grid, hvdc, investment, Manufacturing, renewable energy, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:02:15 +0000

When I was in Brussels recently speaking at the launch of the second edition of Supergrid Super Solution, Eddie O’Connor and Kevin O’Sullivan’s handbook for Europe’s renewable power grid of the future, I had the opportunity to sit down with John Fitzgerald, CEO of Supernode, a startup developing superconducting transmission. … [continued]

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Next-Gen Batteries, US Government Efficiency Improvement, Marine & Offshore Wind Research — US DOE News

December 8, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, eos energy storage, grid resilience, lithium-ion batteries, marine energy, offshore wind energy, Pennsylvania, policy & politics, subsidies, us department of energy (doe), wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:37:08 +0000

The US Department of Energy continues to roll out great cleantech news as we approach the end of the year and the end of an epic presidential term for clean energy, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles. I’m going to roll through four stories from the past two days to catch … [continued]

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A Flow Battery Stealth Attack Is Coming For Your Fossil Fuels

December 7, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, Energy, Energy Storage, flow batteries, flow battery, flow battery storage, grid, grid storage, invinity, long-duration energy storage, renewable energy, rural electric cooperatives, Solar energy, vanadium flow batteries, vanadium flow battery, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 04:53:52 +0000

Five electric cooperatives in the US will each host a new vanadium flow battery from the UK firm Invinity, in a long duration energy storage demonstration project overseen by the US Department of Energy

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Study Finds 21 Regions with High Potential for the Development of Wind Farms in Cuba

December 7, 2024 admin Cuba, full coverage, International, news, power, renewable energy, Renewables, Wind, wind energy

Credit to Author: Amaury Perez Sanchez| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 14:46:54 +0000

Cuban researchers have identified 21 areas in the country with favorable conditions for the installation of wind farms. These areas are mainly located on the north-central-eastern coast, from the provinces […]

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Finnish GTK Risks Credibility By Publishing Bad Minerals Study In Peer-Reviewed House Journal

December 6, 2024 admin batteries, battery minerals, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, grid, hydroelectric, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, Oil, policy research, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, research, SCIENCE, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:02:17 +0000

A year ago I published an assessment of a quite remarkably bad, non-peer-reviewed paper by one of the Geological Survey of Finland’s (GTK) associate professors, Simon Michaux. The paper’s quite risible conclusions were that there wasn’t nearly enough metal in the ground to be able to electrify everything with renewables. … [continued]

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