Huge Turbines Will Soon Bring First Offshore Wind Power to New Yorkers (www.nytimes.com)
Solar module prices may drop 40% to $0.10/W by end 2024 (www.pv-magazine.com)
Ireland: Wind power outstrips electricity demand for the first time (www.euronews.com)
Most of the world’s wind is over deep water. Floating machines can harvest it. (wapo.st)
Follow the Money: Investors are rushing toward clean energy companies—and leaving the GOP in the dust (www.sierraclub.org)
‘Biggest clean energy disaster in years’: UK auction secures no offshore windfarms (www.theguardian.com)
Britain’s offshore wind industry suffered a blow after ministers failed to heed warnings from some of the world’s biggest renewable energy developers that the annual auction was set too low to reflect their soaring costs. No energy companies submitted bids for offshore wind projects, the government confirmed on Friday...
New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power (www.pv-magazine.com)
Researchers from the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) questioned the planned development of new nuclear capacities in the energy strategies of the United States and certain European countries....
Giant batteries drain economics of methane-burning power plants (www.reuters.com)
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The momentum of the solar energy transition (www.nature.com)
Due to technological trajectories set in motion by past policy, a global irreversible solar tipping point may have passed where solar energy gradually comes to dominate global electricity markets, without any further climate policies...
Can the U.S. Make Solar Panels? This Company Thinks So. (www.nytimes.com)
An expert witness for APS [Arizona utility] recently confirmed in a hearing that large utilities oppose customer-sided energy policies because they cut into shareholder profits. (www.12news.com)
EU installs record 56 GW of solar in 2023, growth to slow down in 2024 (renewablesnow.com)
America's first 'enhanced' geothermal plant just got up and running (www.canarymedia.com)
Vermont lawmakers want to require utilities to source 100% renewable electricity by 2030 (www.vermontpublic.org)
Artificial Photosynthesis Advances: Turning Sunlight Into Fuel (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
What's the deal with US interconnection queues? (www.volts.wtf)
We’re going to talk through the basics of interconnection queues, why they’re so slow, what RTOs and FERC are doing to reform them, and what remains to be done
Gallery: A look at Google’s first next-generation geothermal plant in Nevada (www.rgj.com)
The huge potential of geothermal energy to meet the climate and energy crises has always been outweighed by its problems. With Eavor, John Redfern believes he’s found the solution. (www.insidehook.com)
Wind turbine off coast of New York begins sending electricity to U.S. grid (www.pbs.org)
This is the first commercial-scale offshore wind power in the US. (There is a small not-commercial-scale wind farm near Block Island)
Generating Power On Earth From The Coldness Of Deep Space (spectrum.ieee.org)
2023 Solar Glass Breakthrough: Driving A New Era of Sustainability (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
Indonesia's Geothermal Energy May Produce 24 Gigawatts of Electricity (en.tempo.co)
Half of Americans can’t install solar panels. Community solar is how they can plug into the sun. (wapo.st)
Scores of new small solar farms that sell clean, local electricity directly to customers are popping up. The setup, dubbed “community solar,” is designed to bring solar power to people who don’t own their own homes or can’t install panels — often at prices below retail electricity rates.
Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2022: lower than fossil fuels (www.irena.org)
Levelized cost of energy for various renewable technologies in 2010 and 2022. All except geothermal dropped. Onshore wind and solar are below the cost of fossil fuels. Other technologies overlap with the lower end of fossil fuel electric generation costs
Question about First Nations and Green Energy
Why don’t (or maybe they do, and I’m ignorant) FNs build green energy projects on their lands?...