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Annual US power generation from wind turbines declined in 2023 for the first time since the mid-1990s – here’s why.
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Nevada utility NV Energy’s largest battery energy storage system sits on a former coal-fired power plant site and will save customers a lot of money.
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In a historic agreement, the G7 just agreed to phase out coal in the first half of the 2030s, according to statements made today.
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Construction giant Skanska has been awarded a contract to turn the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into one of the US’s largest offshore wind ports.
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The first of 23 caissons for Princess Elisabeth Island, the world’s first artificial energy island, is nearly complete.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will require existing coal-fired and new natural gas-fired power plants to control 90% of their carbon emissions or shut down.
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The White House just debuted a plan to expand the grid’s capacity by upgrading 100,000 miles of transmission lines over the next five years.
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SunPower (Nasdaq: SPWR) just sent an email to its employees saying that it will “wind down” residential solar installations and lay off 1,000 employees.
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Hitachi Energy is investing $1.5 billion to ramp up transformer production to support electrification efforts worldwide.
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More than 1 in 5 cars sold globally this year is expected to be electric, with surging demand projected over the next decade, says a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report.
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Brightline West, a future electric high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, broke ground today in Nevada.
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Washington State’s energy board cut the size of what would have been the state’s largest wind farm in half yesterday – here’s why.
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GM Energy just debuted vehicle-to-home (V2H) bidirectional EV chargers – here’s how GM’s EVs will keep the lights on.
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The Biden administration is expected to restore US tariffs on imported solar panels from China and other countries, according to a Reuters exclusive.
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The global wind industry installed 117 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity in 2023, making it the best year ever for new wind energy – here’s what happened and where.
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The US Department of Energy has just released its first-ever roadmap to speed up the connection of more clean energy to the grid.
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A 605 megawatt (MW) project in Germany has claimed the title of Europe’s largest solar farm, bumping a PV plant in Spain out of the top spot.
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The US Department of the Interior has now permitted more than 25 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy projects – surpassing its original 25 GW by 2025 goal.
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Green Li-ion has launched a commercial-scale plant to process unsorted battery waste, or “black mass,” from used lithium-ion batteries.
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EV charging company Voltpost‘s “first-of-a-kind” lamppost EV charger is now commercially available in major US metro areas.
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Avangrid (NYSE: AGR), one of the US’s largest clean energy operators, has begun construction on its first solar farm in California.
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Solar is forecast to displace natural gas in the middle of the day and in the summer on the Texas grid, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
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Oklahoma approved more than $8 million in federal funds for Tesla and two other companies to build DC fast chargers along its interstates.
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A total solar eclipse will bring complete darkness to 12 US states today – watch live to see its effect on solar power and the grid across all 50 US states.
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