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Over the past year, state officials, utilities, and a broad set of stakeholders worked together to advance key portions of the state’s Clean Energy Plan. North Carolina is emblematic of forces playing out in the larger US electricity system: although the state enjoys relatively low-cost energy, it has also relied heavily on coal-fired generation. The […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy today announced that its Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy Initiative at the University of Utah has selected 17 projects to receive up to $46 million in funding for cutting-edge, domestic, and carbon-free geothermal projects with potential to supply power to homes in the United States. […]
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BCSE President Lisa Jacobson explained, “Global supply chain disruptions, workforce protection measures, and policy uncertainty required adaptation across the industry.” “In a year when so much went sideways, it was a blockbuster year for renewable energy build,” added Ethan Zindler, BNEF’s head of Americas. “Decarbonization of U.S. energy accelerated in 2020, and the benefits will […]
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According to FERC’s January 2021 to December 2023 forecast for power capacity additions, which is based on data from ABB’s Velocity Suite and The C Three Group, slightly more than 50% of new capacity is expected to come from solar power, 27% from wind power, 17% from natural gas, not quite 4% from hydropower, and […]
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The global utility-scale energy storage market is on track for a record year in 2021, with the United States(US) continuing to lead the way. “The energy storage industry will begin significant multiyear growth in 2021, continuing until 2030, as the technology begins to form a core component of power grids in developed markets and new […]
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Enphase steadily expanded its U.S. inverter market share throughout 2020, challenging the sustained grip that SolarEdge has long held. In a recent presentation for Roth Capital Partners, Chris Collins – the founder of Ohm Analytics – discussed inverter market share data across a sample of permit and interconnection sources in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Texas, […]
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Developers will build the 50 MW Sunnyside solar project on a former landfill site just outside of downtown Houston. A long-abandoned landfill site, located 8 miles south of downtown Houston, will soon become the largest urban solar farm in the United States. The 240-acre plot of land, located in Houston’s Sunnyside neighborhood, has been approved […]
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In one of his first official acts, U.S. President Joe Biden signed executive orders this week to rejoin the Paris climate agreement and block the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The Oval Office event was Biden’s first major action to tackle global warming as he brings the largest team of climate change experts […]
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has issued a request for proposals and is accepting applications for the DOE Competitiveness Improvement Project for distributed wind. Managed by NREL on behalf of DOE’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, the CIP awards cost-shared subcontracts and technical support to manufacturers of small and medium-sized wind turbines. […]
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The American Clean Power Association released the following statement today on President Biden’s expected post-inauguration Executive Order committing the U.S. to rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement. Washington D.C. – The American Clean Power Association released the following statement today on President Biden’s expected post-inauguration Executive Order committing the U.S. to rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement. […]
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