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A lease auction for the rights to develop offshore wind off the coast of the Carolinas is now underway.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management kicked off the Carolina Long Bay lease auction at 9:00 a.m. EDT on May 11, and by noon both areas up for lease had received highest bids of $31.5 million.

Perhaps the greatest threat to achieving ambitious renewable energy goals in the U.S. is the costly and time-consuming process of tying projects to the grid.

Heating and cooling represent significant energy needs for American homes and businesses—for instance, more than half of U.S. home energy use is for heating—and contribute to greenhouse gas emissions through the direct use of fossil fuels and electricity use.

Hawaiian Electric has drafted requests for proposals (RFP) for potentially a broad array of renewable energy projects on Oʻahu and Maui that will enable the future retirement of generators that run on imported oil.

(Wed, 11 May 2022) The United Kingdom is the ninth-largest economy in the world by GDP and the third-largest energy consumer in Europe. In addition, the UK is the second-largest producer of petroleum and other liquids and natural gas in OECD Europe, after Norway, but a net energy importer.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has restarted its work on the controversial overhaul to the state's solar energy-focused net energy metering policy.

Jo Seel & Will Gorman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

One of the most important electric power system trends of the 2010s was the rapid deployment of windturbines and photovoltaic arrays, but early data suggests a twist for the 2020s may be the rapiddeployment of ‘hybrid’ generation resources.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A stalled $1 billion energy corridor aimed at bringing Canadian hydropower to the New England power grid could be given new life — or spiked for good — by the state’s high court.

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court was set to hear arguments Tuesday on a pair of cases focusing on the high-profile project.

California could feasibly and responsibly develop as much as 3 GW of offshore wind by 2030, 10-15 GW by 2045, and 20 GW by 2050, according to proposed targets from the state's energy planning agency.

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