Sunny spring weather has produced a "remarkable sequence" of renewable energy records over the past five days, including a new output high for the National Electricity Market. The post Rooftop solar records […]
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Bus Buyers Have Overwhelmingly Chosen Battery-Electric
Zero-emission bus procurement has moved beyond the stage where battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell buses should be treated as two parallel technologies waiting for the market to decide between them. Transit agencies have […]
Beyond the checklist: How connected asset data is reshaping grid risk
Utility regulators across the country are converging on the same expectation: inspections must produce more than a compliance checklist. From Hawaii’s wildfire mitigation plan updates to Texas’s new WMP filing guidance, state […]
Battery storage is scaling fast. Here’s how utilities can trust it to perform.
Battery storage is scaling faster than almost any other grid resource in the U.S. As transmission and distribution networks accommodate increasing shares of solar and wind power, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) […]
More than 70% of announced U.S. solar manufacturing expansion plans yet to be financed
In the final part of the special Austin-debrief series of articles this week in pv magazine, I review the outlook for U.S. solar manufacturing capital expenditure (capex) by quarter to the end […]
The Iran War Is Fueling a Boom in Clean Energy
The Iran war might have done exactly what President Trump was trying to avoid: turning the world away from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources, because of the wide range of vulnerabilities […]
Pemex Needs Nearly $110 Billion to Hit Mexico’s Output Targets
Mexico is dependent on oil and gas imports for two-thirds of its energy consumption, despite the fact that the country has abundant domestic fossil fuel resources. But instead of exploiting its own […]
Emergency Oil Releases Risk Draining the World’s Last Supply Cushion
Earlier this week, the International Energy Agency, after consulting with G7, said it would release another 100 million barrels of diesel, gasoline, and crude oil. The release is part of a plan […]
Tanker Rates Soar to Record as Oil Crisis Becomes Shipping Crisis
The cost of shipping crude oil soared to record highs last month as the Iran war reshuffled trade routes and patterns and tied up more tankers in inefficient and lengthy voyages. Supertanker […]
Massachusetts Regulators Improve Interconnection for Clean Energy, Energy Storage
The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) recently adopted revisions to the state’s Standards for Interconnection of Distributed Energy Resources to improve how clean energy and energy storage projects connect to the […]