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Remote mining projects in farming areas could soon access baseload electricity from biomass plants powered by straw.

Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company Masdar formed a joint venture to build a power plant that runs on garbage as the United Arab Emirates seeks to diversify its sources of electricity.

(Thu, 01 Jun 2017) Generation from small-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems totaled about 37% of the annual generation from all U.S. solar PV electricity generators in 2016. EIA’s small-scale category includes PV systems that have less than one megawatt (MW) of generating capacity.

As President Donald Trump nears a final decision on the Paris climate agreement, top corporate executives are mounting a last-minute push aimed at persuading the president that the U.S. has more to lose from abandoning the accord.

Modifications to Hyatt Dam near Ashland, Ore., will begin in early June and be completed by the end of November, according to a May 24 announcement from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which said it awarded Alaska-based Suulutaaq Inc. a construction contract in April for US$4.4 million.
 

ACCIONA Energía, a subsidiary of Madrid-based ACCIONA, this week said it started operations on a hybrid plant for storing electricity in batteries that is part of a grid-connected wind farm in Spain.

A little-known company from Thailand with grand ambitions in clean energy wants to take on Tesla Inc. at its own game.

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in sent shockwaves through the Asia thermal coal market when, on his election in May, he announced his intention to halt the building of new coal-fired power plants and to phase out some of the country’s ageing coal-fired generators.

(Wed, 31 May 2017) The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) will hold its 36th auction for carbon dioxide (CO2) emission allowances on June 7. In the previous auction, held in March, more than 14 million allowances were sold at a clearing price of $3.00 per short ton of CO2, the lowest price in more than three years.

(Wed, 31 May 2017) This report discusses the methods used to conduct the 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS). EIA also released a preliminary public-use microdata file and guidance on working with the RECS data.

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