Energy Update
Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report says that during the past decade, a greater share of the global population gained access to electricity than ever before, but the number of people without electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa increased.
Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) has begun drilling the first geothermal well at the Aluto site for Ethiopia Electric Power (EEP) company.
by Elizabeth McGowan, Energy News Network
An ambitious measure to convert Virginia’s fleet of 17,000 diesel-powered school buses to quieter and cleaner electric models over a decade was praised by health and environmental advocates when it passed the General Assembly at the end of February.
Power plant engineering and construction giant Bechtel is partnering with a renewable energies company to explore the potential of bioenergy production sites combined with carbon capture and storage.
Sangha Systems, developers of an 82-MW cryptocurrency mining facility at a former steel mill in Hennepin, Illinois announced that it has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with AEP OnSite Partners to develop a 2 – 5-MW behind-the-meter solar power array to begin to migrate its electricity consumption towards clean energy.
Ørsted has announced its new commitment to reuse, recycle or recover all the wind turbine blades in its global portfolio of onshore and offshore wind farms upon decommissioning.
The commitment, made on the company’s Capital Markets Day, is part of Ørsted’s strategy to expand its sustainability position and work toward achieving a carbon-neutral footprint by 2040.
Advocates in Vermont hope a new clean energy jobs board and resume bank can help open doors and diversify a sometimes clubby, male-dominated sector.
(Fri, 30 Apr 2021) Five energy flow diagrams with data for 2020 show U.S. production and consumption of total energy, petroleum, natural gas, coal, and electricity. Two charts with energy consumption by source and sector show the distribution, by both energy source and sector, of U.S. total energy and renewable energy consumed in 2020.
There’s a movement underway whereby companies that want to power their operations with clean energy would like to go further than simply purchasing the output of a renewable energy power plant via a power purchase agreement (PPA). They are instead interested in ensuring that all the energy they actually use is matched with the renewable energy output of a power plant.
Adapture Renewables Inc. announced this week that it completed a portfolio of ten solar projects totaling 33 megawatts (MWdc) of capacity across the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. Adapture Renewables acquired the portfolio in early 2019.
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