Well-designed virtual power plant programs integrate multiple energy technologies and vendors, streamline customer experiences during program enrollment and participation, operate for five years or longer and incentivize distributed energy resource adoption to […]
Ageing Coal Plants Pave the Way for Renewable Revolution
New research from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) shows that over 800 coal-fired power plants could be profitably replaced by solar power in emerging economies starting at the […]
The race to protect “heartbeat” of the grid as wind and solar replace coal and gas
Australia’s biggest transmission company has warned that it is in a race to secure sufficient critical system services in the grid needed to pave the way for the closure of coal fired […]
Fossil fuel firms flared most gas since 2019, says World Bank
The burning of excess natural gas from global oil fields hit its highest level since 2019 last year, spewing enough pollutants into the atmosphere to equal those from an extra five million […]
Europe’s Negative Power Prices Highlight the Need for Energy Storage Investment
European wholesale electricity markets have seen zero or negative power prices for the most hours on record this year amid soaring renewable energy generation and a mismatch between supply and demand hours […]
More than 1 million smart meters in Finland managed as a service as DSOs upgrade
Gridspertise company Aidon has reported that over 1 million energy metering points are now connected to its ‘Metering as a Service’ (MAAS). Aidon, headquartered in Jyväskylä, Finland, with a focus on smart […]
EV Battery Replacement Costs? Meh — Tesla Batteries Designed To Outlast Their Vehicles
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! One of the bigger concerns many consumers have had about buying electric cars is that the […]
Solar PV to provide 20% of global power on the summer solstice
Currently, the northern hemisphere houses 89% of the installed solar modules worldwide. Therefore, global solar generation peaks in the summer months of the northern hemisphere. Ember added that monthly global solar generation […]
Accenture boss Tinkler urges utilities to ‘reinvent business as usual’
Accenture’s global utilities lead issues call to ‘compress innovation cycles into months’ Accenture’s global utilities lead Scott Tinkler drew inspiration from Portugal’s legendary maritime history when he opened the company’s annual utilities […]
PJM has been dispatching coal-fired generators less than other generators
Use of the coal fleet in PJM, the country’s largest wholesale electricity market, has fallen over the last decade, driven largely by higher relative fuel costs. Much of the competitive pressure has […]
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