Electric utilities are looking to green hydrogen as a tool to help alleviate over-congested grids and renewable energy curtailment. But what makes hydrogen “green?” The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will […] The […]
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The Solid-State EV Battery Code Is Starting To Crack
The solid-state EV battery of the future promises lower cost, longer range, faster charging and improved safety compared to the EV batteries of today, eventually. Someone still has to figure out how […]
Solar Energy Desalination Plants Increasingly Provide Water for Africa
Clean drinking water is an issue across many countries on the African continent. As renewable energy becomes more available and cheaper, some of this is being used for desalination to quench the […]
UN Fails To Reach Agreement On Deep Sea Mining Regulation
Week-long discussions at the Council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), a UN-backed regulator, have failed to reach a consensus on immediate permission for deep sea mining or draft regulations on seabed […]
Solar-plus-storage is going to be very important to the energy transition over next five years
In the US, companies like Intersect Power have a pipeline of large-scale solar-plus-storage projects. Image: Intersect Power. With solar capacity ever-growing at a fast pace globally and installs expected to treble in […]
Rooftop solar takes biggest bite yet out of fossil fuel industry’s energy lunch
The growing uptake of rooftop solar PV – driven in part by the huge jump in wholesale electricity prices and retail bills in the past year – has taken the biggest bite […]
Baby the RINs Must Fall, Part 2 – Will a RIN Price Crash Make a Mess in the Renewable Diesel Market?
U.S. production of hydrogenated renewable diesel (RD), made from soybean oil and animal fats like used cooking oil, is growing faster than expected. That may sound like good news for the renewable […]
Green hydrogen on track to be cheaper than fossil gas hydrogen by 2030
A new report from BloombergNEF has found that green hydrogen, created using renewable energy, is on track to be cheaper than existing grey hydrogen, made using gas, in five key markets by […]
US grid congestion costs jumped 56% to $20.8B in 2022: report
Costs to consumers from congestion on the U.S. power grid jumped 56% in 2022 to an estimated $20.8 billion from $13.3 billion the year before, partly driven by fuel price volatility, according […]
Toyota says ‘breakthrough’ in solid-state EV batteries could significantly drop costs
Dive Brief: Toyota announced a “technical breakthrough” for solid-state electric vehicle batteries that will reduce size, weight and costs by half while delivering ranges up to 745 miles, according to the Financial […]
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