In this three-part series, Utility Dive explored the fallout from the PJM Interconnection’s latest capacity auction, which delivered historically high prices. In the stories below, we examine how utilities, power plant owners, state […]
Clean energy investments have taken off and are leaving fossil fuels behind
In fact, some predictions expect investing will into low-CO2 power be nearly twice that in fossil fuel Worldwide spending on clean energy infrastructure and tech is currently aligned to reach $2 trillion […]
Most Car Sales (51%) in China Are Now Plugins! Full Report
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring 887,000 sales […]
BNEF expects 592GW of solar PV installs globally in 2024
The latest report expects global capacity installations to reach 592GW in 2024, a 33% increase from last year. Data from trade association SolarPower Europe registered 447GW of installed PV in 2023, up […]
New FERC Has Golden Opportunity to Pass Interregional Transmission Planning Rule
Our electric system was designed to experience service interruptions once per decade. That time is long gone. In the past three years, the U.S. South has sustained two debilitating winter […] The […]
Finland Unveils World’s First Deep-Earth Repository To Bury Nuclear Waste
For decades, nuclear energy has been treated as the black sheep of the energy universe thanks to major drawbacks including high costs, high-profile nuclear accidents and hazardous by-products of nuclear energy production. […]
Finland’s Fortum Replaces Russian Nuclear Fuel With U.S. Fuel
Finnish power utility Fortum has announced that it has successfully started using nuclear fuel from U.S.-based Westinghouse Electric as it seeks to replace Russian supply. For years, Fortum’s Loviisa power plant in […]
Global Solar Generation Overtakes Wind Power
Global electricity generation from solar farms has exceeded power generation from wind farms since May, marking the longest stretch in history where solar has surpassed wind as the top utility-scale renewable power […]
Here come the batteries: Six new big battery projects in line for capacity payments in W.A. grid
Six big battery projects are in line to receive capacity payments in Western Australia, in a significant reshaping of the state’s grid as it accelerates its transition away from coal. The six […]
US distributed solar installations exceed 800,000 in 2023, setting new record
The LBNL distributed database now includes 3.7 million distributed solar systems, representing 78% of the entire US market, and report analyses 550,000 solar systems installed in 2023 to extrapolate conclusions for the […]
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