A residential development in Florida provides a model for the future of grid modernization, showcasing reliability and resiliency. Community microgrids provide a new approach to the design and operation of the The […]
Lunar Regolith to Power Moon Bases: Blue Origin Gets NASA Backing
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2023 Blue Origin, the American aerospace manufacturer, is moving a step closer to making its innovative concept of generating solar power on the Moon a reality. […]
NextEra seeing signs of wider renewable energy recovery, company leaders say
Dive Brief: Renewable energy has made it through a challenging 18-month period and now seems on tract for growth and recovery, NextEra Energy CFO Kirk Crews told investors during a Tuesday earnings call. […]
I Was CCS When CCS Wasn’t Cool – Carbon Capture Spurs ExxonMobil’s Denbury Acquisition
A great deal of attention has been heaped on the carbon-capture industry over the past couple of years, from its inclusion in major federal legislation such as 2021’s infrastructure bill and last […]
Making Green Hydrogen’s Potential Come True
Electric utilities are looking to green hydrogen as a tool to help alleviate over-congested grids and renewable energy curtailment. But what makes hydrogen “green?” The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will […] The […]
The Solid-State EV Battery Code Is Starting To Crack
The solid-state EV battery of the future promises lower cost, longer range, faster charging and improved safety compared to the EV batteries of today, eventually. Someone still has to figure out how […]
Solar Energy Desalination Plants Increasingly Provide Water for Africa
Clean drinking water is an issue across many countries on the African continent. As renewable energy becomes more available and cheaper, some of this is being used for desalination to quench the […]
UN Fails To Reach Agreement On Deep Sea Mining Regulation
Week-long discussions at the Council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), a UN-backed regulator, have failed to reach a consensus on immediate permission for deep sea mining or draft regulations on seabed […]
Solar-plus-storage is going to be very important to the energy transition over next five years
In the US, companies like Intersect Power have a pipeline of large-scale solar-plus-storage projects. Image: Intersect Power. With solar capacity ever-growing at a fast pace globally and installs expected to treble in […]
Rooftop solar takes biggest bite yet out of fossil fuel industry’s energy lunch
The growing uptake of rooftop solar PV – driven in part by the huge jump in wholesale electricity prices and retail bills in the past year – has taken the biggest bite […]
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