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Electricity consumption patterns in the United States are changing, meaning utility programs aimed at shifting or reducing that demand must also change, according to an August report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. […]

There is a lot of talk about the best way to meet the expected increases in U.S. power demand, driven by manufacturing growth and the rapid development of large-scale data centers, which […]

The cost of EV batteries will probably keep falling over the next two years, but there are plenty of good reasons to buy an electric vehicle sooner rather than later. The post […]

Methane is so hot right now. Well, it’s making the world a lot hotter, because it’s a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and we’ve been increasing the amount we’re […]

However, as revamping and repowering must be completed while solar projects are connected to grids and in commercial operation and will involve the replacement of older components with cutting-edge technologies, such work […]

Wave energy is a vast new source of renewable energy that has defied harnessing so far, but researchers and industry stakeholders are finally beginning to unlock its secrets. The post The Wave […]

Chinese battery companies are manufacturing the cheapest cells in the world right now, and it’s not just because of cheap labor and state subsidies. They’ve streamlined the process in a way that […]

The first major waste-to-energy power plant in Australia recently began operations, marking a new era of waste burning. Australia has started developing several waste-to-energy power plants in a bid to incinerate household […]

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. American Electric Power, Dominion Energy Virginia and FirstEnergy are proposing several multi-state transmission projects in the PJM Interconnection they designed […]

Against the backdrop of growing interconnection bottlenecks in the US, Texas’s grid operator ERCOT is bucking the trend. While new solar, wind and storage projects in the US can typically expect to […]