Category: News and Policies

March 30, 2023

On March 29, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released Advancing Offshore Wind Energy in the United States, U.S. Department of Energy Strategic Contributions Toward 30 Gigawatts and Beyond, a comprehensive summary of DOE’s role in the nationwide effort […]

March 30, 2023

The European Union reached a deal Thursday to almost double the share of renewables in the 27-nation bloc’s energy consumption by 2030 amid efforts to become carbon neutral and ditch Russian fossil fuels. The provisional political agreement, which was reached […]

March 30, 2023

Enefit Green has acquired the 1GW Liivi offshore wind farm project from Eesti Energia and will continue development work to start large-scale renewable electricity production before 2030. Enefit Green snapped up the project company, Liivi Offshore OÜ, for €6.2m. The […]

March 29, 2023

Researcher Anna Vanderbruggen peers into a vat of dark bubbling liquid, the result of a process she has developed to recover graphite from old lithium-ion batteries. Although graphite represents up to a quarter of the weight of the batteries, no […]

March 28, 2023

The 27 EU member states gave final approval Tuesday to a ban on sales of new fossil fuel cars by 2035, after Germany dropped a last-minute blocking effort. The vote was a formality after ambassadors on Monday backed the milestone […]

March 27, 2023

Heavy lifting and transport company Mammoet on Monday said it has been awarded contracts on two large offshore wind projects in the US by undisclosed customers. Mammoet will execute a number of port scopes under the deals, including the load-in, […]

March 24, 2023

CleanLight is one of the most exciting clean energy startups in Chile. This renewable energy manufacturing company has used solar generators to power off-grid homes and brings renewable energy to industries such as construction and mining that have not benefited […]

March 24, 2023

The call for circular economic practices to be used in conjunction with other aspects of the renewable energy transition has been gaining more attention within the U.S. and Europe. Projects in the U.S. such as circular economy for textiles and […]

March 20, 2023

The U.S. Department of Energy has committed $1 billion to develop solar energy in Puerto Rico, to help the island meet its goal of 100% renewables and to add resilience to a system plagued by hurricane damage, poor maintenance and […]

March 20, 2023

The gigantic Ossian offshore floating wind turbine array will weigh in at an impressive 3.6 gigawatts when fully built out. It sounds like something that could easily fit anywhere inside the long, long coastlines of the US. However, it will […]

March 20, 2023

Africa is leapfrogging centralized coal-fired power for electricity generation, but what progress is being made in the uptake of electric vehicles? Green shoots are appearing. I have written previously about buses and boda bodas, but what other vehicles are being […]

March 14, 2023

The solar power industry seems to be caught in the crosshairs of competing legislative agendas. The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) created incentives to increase solar capacity via tax credits, but the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) limits the […]

March 10, 2023

Ukrainian energy company DTEK Group said it has finished construction of the first 114 MW of a planned 500-MW wind farm in the country, as DTEK continues to work on energy projects despite the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The […]

March 10, 2023

The US added 20.2 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity in 2022, a 16% decrease from 2021. This was due in large part to an investigation into new anti-circumvention tariffs by the U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as equipment […]

March 10, 2023

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $6 billion in funding to accelerate decarbonization projects in the energy-intensive industrial sector. The industrial sector’s emissions result not just from fuel for heat and power, but also from feedstocks and processes […]

March 9, 2023

Latin America is poised to become a major renewable energy producer, with nearly a billion solar panels’ worth of large-scale clean-electricity projects slated to come online in the next seven years, a report found Thursday. In welcome good news for […]

March 9, 2023

New solar installations in the US fell 16% year-over-year to 20.2 GW in 2022 due to policy-driven supply constraints, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) said on Thursday. The decline was mainly blamed on the US Department of Commerce’s investigation […]

March 8, 2023

A Utah-based energy developer has filed a final license application for construction of a major pumped-hydro storage project in Nevada. rPlus Hydro on March 8 said it made the filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the company’s […]

March 7, 2023

William Creek in South Australia is no metropolis. It has a campground, two motels, one of the world’s most remote pubs, and a solar farm. The town has 10 permanent inhabitants, although a full census might get that number up […]

March 7, 2023

More than two-thirds (68%) of lithium-ion battery production planned for Europe is at risk of being delayed, scaled down, or cancelled, new analysis shows. Tesla in Berlin, Northvolt in northern Germany, and Italvolt near Turin are among the projects that […]