Tag: renewable

July 8, 2020

A government-run development bank is expected to end its ban on investment in nuclear energy, a move that could allow U.S. companies to take a greater role in foreign nuclear power projects. The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) as […]

March 17, 2020

The ongoing slide in global oil prices – catalyzed by the novel Coronavirus and fueled by structural issues including excess supply from oil giants like the U.S., Russia and Saudi Arabia, and slowing demand growth – is creating a new […]

July 11, 2019

Over the next two years, the eBay office in Draper, Utah, will have 100% renewable energy through a partnership the retailer formed with Rocky Mountain Power and their Blue Sky program. This partnership allows the company to purchase renewable energy […]

December 18, 2017

The solar investment tax credit (ITC) has survived a major round of tax reform in the US. Fears over an effective shortening of the ITC and the wind power industry’s equivalent, the production tax credit (PTC), to just four years […]

September 8, 2016

The California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the entity responsible for maintaining the balance between supply and demand for electricity throughout most of the state, operates in a setting where demand peaks in the late afternoon or early evening on summer […]

May 17, 2016

As the planet increasingly looks to curb greenhouse emissions, it is not uncommon to see solar and windenergy take center stage in the debate. However, a sometimes-neglected form of energy could play a major role in preparing economies for a […]

May 16, 2016

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from electricity generation totaled 1,925 million metric tons in 2015, the lowest since 1993 and 21% below their 2005 level. A shift on the electricity generation mix, with generation from natural gas and renewables displacing coal-fired […]

March 24, 2016

Speaking at Apple’s Monday ‘Loop You In’ event, the company’s VP of environment, Lisa Jackson, claimed 93% of Apple’s facilities worldwide run on renewable electricity. Apple has been targeting the running of all its facilities — stores, data centers, manufacturing […]

February 15, 2016

Using data from FERC and rooftop solar power estimates of my own*, it seems that 69% of newly installed US electricity generation capacity was from renewable energy power plants, with 67% from solar and wind power. In the month of […]

February 9, 2016

Nations worldwide are increasingly embracing solar power as an alternative electricity source for homes, buildings, and even the grid. Since 2008, installed solar capacity in the United States alone has grown 17-fold, from 1.2 to 20 gigawatts (GW), according to […]

February 9, 2016

The impressive numbers for renewable energy in 2015 keep coming. Just as there has been a tipping point globally in clean energy, the same is true in the U.S., according to new figures from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) and […]

February 8, 2016

California just took another key step in expanding the market for electric vehicles (EVs); 3,500 charging stations will be installed in the San Diego area under a “Vehicle Grid Integration” program approved by the California Public Utilities Commission recently that […]

February 2, 2016

Renewable, energy efficient and flexible electricity sources are being adopted by policy makers and investors across the globe and this is sign of optimism in the battle against climate change, a University of Exeter energy policy expert is suggesting. In […]

January 26, 2016

Facebook said last week that it is building a data center in the small Irish village of Clonee, which is near Dublin. The story at Venture Beat says that the facility, which will be located on a 227-acre site, will […]