The coal plant Moorburg in Hamburg, with a capacity of 1.6 gigawatt, only started operations in 2015 after years of struggle with local environmental groups. Hall said that the Moorburg plant had […]
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Newest coal generators rank amongst Australia’s worst for reliability
Queensland’s newest and most ‘modern’ coal-fired generators have ranked amongst some of Australia’s least reliable, in a new assessment that raises yet more questions around the judgement of the Morrison government, which […]
The Trillion-Dollar Reason Joe Biden Won’t Ban Fracking
Water tanks, sand tanks, and compressors surround a natural gas well during hydraulic fracturing … [+] operations on a Chesapeake Energy Corp. drill site in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in 2010. Photographer: Daniel […]
Are We On The Cusp Of A Global Energy Crisis?
Goehring and Rozencwajg believe that we are on the cusp of a global energy crisis because of the depletion of U.S. tight oil plays. “We are on the cusp of a global energy […]
Its Electric Grid Under Strain, California Turns to Batteries
The Fountain Valley, Plant No. 1 Reclamation Plant, located at the Orange County Sanitation District in Fountain Valley, Calif.Credit…Philip Cheung for The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to site index When […]
Why Wholesale Markets are Important to an Advanced Energy Future
Friction between organized wholesale electricity markets operated by Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators (RTOs/ISOs) and the trend – driven by policy, technology, and market forces – toward cleaner energy options […]
U.S, Shale Recovery Leans On Huge Inventory Of DUCs
The recovery of fracking operations in the US is happening largely thanks to an unusually high inventory of drilled but uncompleted wells (DUCs), which is strong enough to sustain the current level […]
Microgrids Are The Future Of Energy
The vision of a household with a solar rooftop, a battery pack, and an EV in the garage is not just Elon Musk’s vision of the future of energy. It is a […]
These Days, Everyone Wants to Own a Microgrid
The U.S. microgrid market is growing, with a record 546 microgrids installed during 2019. Most of those projects were below 5 megawatts. This is a continuation of the trend starting in 2017: […]
As Residential Solar Deployments Fell, the US Home Battery Market Powered On
Even as the coronavirus pandemic sent the U.S. economy into free fall this spring, the energy storage industry delivered its second-best quarter ever in terms of megawatts installed. Despite social-distancing orders, more customers than ever […]
