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What falling sales? Plugins grew by 19% YoY! Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 19% in August 2024 compared to August 2023. There were 1.5 million registrations. BEVs were up by just […]

Australia’s fleet of big battery projects is growing quickly – in number, size and duration – and the primary source of market revenue is also rapidly evolving. When the first big batteries […]

Despite the surge in renewable energy additions, the world is not yet on track to reach the goal of tripling renewables capacity by 2030, according to the Renewables 2024 report published by […]

Boston MA (SPX) Oct 09, 2024 MIT engineers have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The solar-powered system removes salt from water at a pace […]

Biofuels are making up an increasing share of total distillate fuel oil consumed in the United States. Beginning in the September 2024 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we began publishing forecasts for several […]

Every so often a new set of lobbyists rises up to tell us that the electric industry has to do something because the expected demand from X will overwhelm the utilities. Back […]

The Spring cleanout of renewable production, fossil fuel generation and minimum demand levels continues across Australia’s main grid, with rooftop solar PV taking its biggest bite yet out of the nation’s ageing […]

In the far western reaches of the Permian Basin lies Orla, TX — a town steeped in history and significance. Orla, which can be fittingly translated into “border” in Spanish, is about […]

Natural gas-fired power generation in the United States has soared to a record high so far this year, driving up global gas demand. U.S. power producers generated a total of 55.6 million […]

Bringing electricity supply to several hundred million of the world’s poorest would require investments of $21.3 billion by 2030. This is according to the Global Association for the off-grid solar energy industry, […]