Tag: solar

September 29, 2023

The word is out. Renewable energy is in and now everyone wants to get in on the game. This week, there have been news reports about companies we don’t normally associate with climate action queuing up to add solar power […]

September 19, 2023

Power generation represents a varied and evolving landscape, both globally and within the U.S., with numerous technology types contributing to the energy mix. From traditional simple cycle gas and turbine peaking plants to modern photovoltaic (PV) solar, battery energy storage […]

September 15, 2023

TotalEnergies, Petrobras and Casa dos Ventos Holding signed a Memorandum of Understanding to evaluate perspectives and joint opportunities in renewable energy and low-carbon hydrogen in Brazil. This agreement will enable the three companies to jointly study opportunities of investment and […]

September 12, 2023

The 2023 annual report from Solar Power Europe comes to a startling conclusion. It says the EU will reach the renewable energy goal it set for 2030 three years early. The report is 148 pages long, so we are going […]

September 7, 2023

Community solar power is a special solar power option that has always tickled the minds of solar enthusiasts and policy wonks. It’s truly unique in the solar power market, as a couple of recent guests on our CleanTech Talk podcast […]

September 6, 2023

This fading summer will long be recalled for cascading climate disasters hurtling across the country like a runaway train. Fires destroyed Maui’s Lahaina and took more than 115 lives. Dangerous heat waves threatened two-thirds of the country. Smoke from Canadian […]

September 5, 2023

While conventional silicon-based solar cells have had an unmistakable impact on the buildout of renewable energy resources around the world, additional performance improvements have become increasingly difficult to make as the devices approach their practical efficiency limits. This constraint has […]

August 17, 2023

American Electric Power (AEP), one of the nation’s largest power producers, has completed the sale of its 1,365-MW unregulated contracted renewables portfolio to an Invenergy-led consortium. IRG Acquisition Holdings (IRGAH)—a partnership between Invenergy, CDPQ, and funds managed by Blackstone Infrastructure […]

August 15, 2023

Wind and sun may be nearly infinite resources. But the materials needed to build wind turbines and solar panels are not always common. Take the rare earth metals—neodymium, dysprosium, and praseodymium—for example. Chances are those names are just as unfamiliar […]

August 14, 2023

A team of hydrologists and bioengineers affiliated with several institutions across Europe has found, via modeling, that building dams to generate hydroelectricity in Africa may be not be a cost-effective approach in light of falling costs for solar and wind […]

August 10, 2023

A team of researchers studying ways to persuade low-income families to take advantage of free or low-cost solar energy installations confirmed that sometimes it’s the small things that can be most persuasive. Kim Wolske, a professor of environmental psychology at […]

August 4, 2023

Over the past few decades, sustainable energy solutions that rely on renewable sources, particularly the sun and wind, have become increasingly advanced and widespread. Many countries worldwide have committed to drastically lowering carbon emissions in the next decade or so, […]

August 2, 2023

Climate change may affect the future stability of grid-connected solar power systems—something that needs to be considered in the planning of Australia’s renewable energy transition. Modeling conducted by researchers from UNSW Sydney shows the magnitude, frequency and duration of disruptive […]

August 1, 2023

Cold storage warehousing is highly energy intensive, and for Lineage Logistics—the world’s largest temperature-controlled real-estate investment trust (REIT) and logistics solution provider—finding new and innovative technologies that could reshape its energy profile had long been an ambition. “We own and […]

July 27, 2023

Recent decades of research and development have produced highly sophisticated solar cells—or photovoltaic (PV) devices—that generated more than 1,000 terawatt-hours of electrical energy globally in 2022. This deployment has been accelerated by improvements in the design and performance of PV […]

July 21, 2023

Solar energy is a clean and environmentally friendly source of energy. It can also help in reducing the global carbon footprint and mitigating the impacts of climate change. Due to the positive aspects of solar energy, its demand is growing […]

July 18, 2023

Global solar power equipment provider First Solar announced a massive deal with Israel-based Energix Renewables, an agreement in which First Solar will deliver more than 5 GW of ultra-low carbon thin film solar modules for projects in Israel, the U.S., […]

July 12, 2023

SUSI Partners, through the SUSI Energy Transition Fund, has acquired a majority stake in newly formed APAL MW (APAL). APAL is a French clean energy development company born out of the merger of French wind and solar developers 3N Développement […]

July 7, 2023

Two teams of solar-power engineers, one led by a large group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, the other led by a group at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, has found two ways to improve the efficiency of […]

June 30, 2023

Arlington, Virginia-based independent power producer Energix Renewables said it has secured USD 520 million (EUR 478.3m) to finance six utility-scale solar projects in the US with a combined capacity of 416 MW DC. The financing has been arranged in two […]