Clean energy advocates are often aligned with Democratic lawmakers due to the party’s acknowledgment of the threats posed by climate change and the need to rapidly decarbonize.
FirstLight Power has announced a partnership with Borrego to bring more clean energy to New England by adding distributed generation (DG) solar, DG storage, and utility-scale standalone storage at FirstLight’s hydropower facilities in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Renewable energy served 90.2% of the electricity demand in the Southwest Power Pool grid on March 29 at 2:42 a.m., reportedly setting a record for a U.S. regional transmission organization.
SPP said that 88.5% of total demand was served by wind during that moment, beating the previous record of 84% set on May 8, 2021.
Weeks after it received more than $1 million in government support, fleet electrification provider Zeem Solutions said it is opening an EV transportation-as-a-service depot near Los Angeles International Airport. The California depot is designed to support medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle fleets.
(Thu, 31 Mar 2022) In 2021, Colombia was South Americaâs largest coal producer and second-largest petroleum and other liquids producer after Brazil. The country is also a significant oil exporter; in 2021, it was the fifth-largest crude oil exporter to the United States. Columbia uses hydropower for most of its electricity needs. Despite being a major coal producer, Colombia uses very little coal domestically, instead exporting most of its coal production.
San Diego Gas & Electric is continuing to add to its battery energy storage portfolio to support further penetration of renewable energy sources.
The utility hosted a ribbon cutting on March 29 for the 20 MW/80 MWh lithium-ion battery storage project in the Kearny Mesa area of San Diego.
The renewable energy developer also announced that it will establish a wind technician training center in Oklahoma City to support new hires.
Enel Green Power has broken ground on a 300 MW wind farm in Oklahoma and plans to establish a technician training center in Oklahoma City.
A groundbreaking ceremony on March 24 marked the official start of construction on the 11 MW Gratkorn small hydro plant on the Mur River in the Styria province of Austria.
A study by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory takes a fresh look at what could become the first step toward a new generation of solar batteries.
(Wed, 30 Mar 2022) EIA presents an alternative case to the <em>Annual Energy Outlook 2022</em> (AEO2022) that assume no new interstate natural gas pipelines are built between 2024 and 2050. This <em>Issues in Focus</em> article examines how these limitations to natural gas pipeline capacity affect changes to natural gas production, consumption, prices, and trade at the national and regional levels.
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