Green Energy

A 16-megawatt (MW) wind turbine – the world’s largest – is now in place off the southeastern coast of China.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

South America’s largest floating solar farm is now online, and it’s paired with hydropower, which boosts energy reliability and production.

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.

Rutgers University is going to install 16 solar carports that total 14.5 megawatts (MW) in parking lots across its five campuses.

EV charger annual installed capacity is going to overtake distributed solar – that is, rooftop solar on individual homes and businesses – for the first time in 2023 in the US.

Illinois-based startup Eco-dynamic Tech has debuted a lightweight rollout solar awning for RVs that can generate up to 8,000 Wh per day.

After a 40-year effort, global installed wind power capacity reached 1 terawatt (TW) this month – but 2 TW will likely be achieved in less than seven years.

Coal-fired Boxberg power station in Eastern Germany will host the first phase of building the largest clean energy hub in Europe.

Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm to date will feature recyclable wind turbine blades made by Siemens Gamesa.

Installation of the final wind turbines at the Netherlands’ Hollandse Kust Zuid 1.5 gigawatt (GW) offshore wind farm is now complete.

In June 2022, Rivian announced it would install a 2.8-megawatt wind turbine at its Normal, Illinois, factory – and the turbine’s final components have now arrived.

The Homer City coal-burning power station – Pennsylvania’s largest coal plant – is going to be retired permanently in July 2023. 

The construction of KORE Power‘s EV battery factory in Arizona is now fast-tracked with a US Department of Energy loan for $850 million.

The Danish renewables giant is partnering with Texas-based SOLARCYCLE to recycle all of Ørsted‘s end-of-life US solar panels.

Due in part to strong Q1 2023 numbers and a surge in demand, the US solar market is now expected to triple in size over the next five years, according to a new report.

The first turbine blades for Vineyard Wind 1, the US’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, have arrived at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal in Massachusetts.