In 1932, Americans were doggedly trudging through year three of the Great Depression when a candidate for president spoke of “the human importance of electric power in our present social order … […]
Can A Roof’s Material Cool The Outside Air & Lower Energy Demand?
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Researchers examined three different types of roofing strategies and their impact on near-surface temperature and cooling […]
Germany covers 52 pct of electricity consumption with renewables so far this year
Renewables covered more than half of Germany’s electricity consumption so far this year, according to calculations by utility association BDEW and the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Wuerttemberg (ZSW). Between […]
The Utility-Scale Energy Storage Market Is Booming Again
"For batteries to play the ultimate backup system, we’re so far away from that it’s not funny. To really make the vision that we like to get to, a highly decarbonized electric system, […]
Big Battery to the rescue as rooftop PV pushes biggest isolated grid to record demand lows
Rooftop solar PV continued its middle-of-the-day challenge to the operations of the world’s biggest isolated grid – the South-West Interconnected System in Western Australia – on Monday, sending minimum demand to a […]
Universal Hydrogen secures 250th hydrogen aircraft product order
This is a major commercial milestone for the company. Universal Hydrogen Co. announced that it’s celebrating a major commercial milestone after an unnamed customer pushed the total order book for its hydrogen […]
Solar leads the pack as renewables keep global net zero hopes alive – IEA
The fundamental driver of the report’s Net Zero Scenario is the rollout of clean energy, which has so far been led by solar PV. The IEA said that in the last two […]
Airlines Ready To Embrace Higher Sustainable Aviation Fuel Costs
The airline industry would be ready to embrace the fact that sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) will always be more expensive than oil-based jet fuel, Willie Walsh, Director General at the International Air […]
$100 Oil Is Bad For The Economy (And For OPEC+)
Crude oil prices are on the rise, driven by stark cutbacks imposed by Saudi Arabia and Russia, the main forces behind OPEC+. The cuts, implemented by the oil cartel in order to […]
Hickenlooper touts interregional transmission as new report tackles US grid risks
Dive Brief: The U.S. electrical grid faces significant risk from extreme weather, rising demand, an evolving resource mix and physical and cyber attacks, according to a report published Tuesday by SAFE, a […]