EGEB = Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political roundup/analysis of news about green energy, such as wind, solar, sustainable technology, and electric vehicles.
First Solar, the largest solar panel maker in the US, will supply Israeli renewable energy company Energix with 5 gigawatts (GW) of ultra-low carbon thin film solar panels.
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Sunlight reaches both sides of a bifacial perovskite solar cell, which means it could potentially produce higher energy yields for lower overall costs, according to a new study.
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Rapid renewables growth means that by 2030, the global electricity system will be capable of delivering ambitious net-zero pathways, according to new research by RMI, in partnership with the Bezos Earth Fund.
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Texas solar and wind are going to double by 2035, but if the state’s grid isn’t upgraded, then all that power is going to go to waste, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
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Italian startup Barrel is packing solar modules, inverters, and battery storage into “oil” barrels – here’s why and how they work.
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Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) just turned down $377 million in free federal energy-efficiency money despite Florida suffering ever-hotter temperatures.
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A huge solar power station in China is generating clean energy, producing salt from sunlight, and serving as a shrimp-breeding site.
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Patio furniture company SunVilla and tech company Suntek have paired up to launch a solar + battery powered storage shed that can charge electric outdoor lawn equipment.
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Labor union members at New York’s Ravenswood Generating Station will become the US’s first fossil fuel power plant workers to transition to operating offshore wind equipment.
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The first monopile for Ocean Wind 1, New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm, has been built at a New Jersey manufacturing facility – and Cape May County isn’t happy about any of it.
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Global energy tech company Enphase Energy just announced the first shipments of its microinverters made in Columbia, South Carolina.
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First Solar, the largest solar panel maker in the US, today announced that it will supply North American wholesale power producer Capital Power with 1 gigawatt (GW) of ultra-low carbon thin film solar modules.
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Swedish wind turbine maker SeaTwirl announced today that it’s gotten its first commercial order for its vertical-axis floating wind turbine.
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A Swiss startup is using reclaimed wind turbine blades instead of metal beams as horizontal supports for solar panels.
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The world’s first offshore wind–green hydrogen pilot has just produced its first green hydrogen off the coast of France.
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A 16-megawatt (MW) wind turbine – the world’s largest – is now in place off the southeastern coast of China.
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All of Detroit’s municipal buildings are going to be powered by neighborhood solar as part of the city’s efforts to combat climate change – check out the city’s cool grassroots plan.
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Solar is growing at 33.7% year-on-year and is now at twice the capacity of coal power in China, according to a new report.
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New US-India joint venture VSK Energy has announced it will invest up to $1.5 billion to develop a vertically integrated solar manufacturing operation in the US, and it’s starting in Colorado.
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Siemens Gamesa reviewed its wind turbine fleet’s failure rates and discovered that it has much bigger problems than it thought – and that they could take years to fix.
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South Fork Wind, New York State’s first offshore wind farm, has achieved its “steel in the water” milestone with the installation of the project’s first monopile foundation.
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South America’s largest floating solar farm is now online, and it’s paired with hydropower, which boosts energy reliability and production.
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The TransWest Express, a landmark transmission project that will carry clean energy from North America’s largest wind farm in Wyoming to the US Southwest, has broken ground.
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Rutgers University is going to install 16 solar carports that total 14.5 megawatts (MW) in parking lots across its five campuses.
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