Siemens Chicago Pilot Reimagines The Grid As Patchwork Of Microgrids
Siemens has kicked off a new pilot in partnership with Chicago-based ComEd and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) that aims to redefine the microgrid as an integrated operating unit within the...
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Renewable Energy In Kenya: Meeting The Needs Of An Expanding Population
Electricity demand in East Africa is projected to triple by 2030. Investment in renewable technologies will be essential to the strategic diversification of the energy sources needed to meet this...
View ArticleCosta Rica: 1st Country To Achieve Independence From Fossil Fuels?
Costa Rica's new president has promised to continue his country's transition to renewable energy and to work toward eliminating all fossil fuels for its transportation sector by 2021.
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Iceland Saturates Its 1,300 Kilometer Route 1 With Network Of 20 ABB DC Fast...
A network of 20 of ABB's high-speed 50kW DC fast chargers for electric vehicles has been installed across Iceland as the island nation looks to electric vehicles to cut petrol imports and reduce emissions
View ArticleHow Does Geothermal Energy Work? Glad You Asked …
It’s time to dig into a less talked about-but-powerful source of renewable energy. While it’s hard to miss a massive solar array or a field full of wind turbines, so much of the action with geothermal...
View ArticleUpdated! Alphabet Labs Spinoff Dandelion Geothermal Launches The Dandelion...
Google's parent company, Alphabet, spun Dandelion out of its X labs in the middle of last year, which was followed closely by a noteworthy funding round. It's clear that the Dandelion team is putting...
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Tesla Energy Hits 1 Gigawatt-Hour Milestone In 2 Years
Tesla regularly makes headlines in the mainstream media for its surprisingly rare vehicle fires, delays in the base version of the Model 3, and CEO Elon Musk's Twitter rants, but beyond the headlines,...
View ArticleSDG&E Approves Projects Doubling Grid-Scale Energy Storage To Enable Adoption...
San Diego Gas & Electric broke the news that it will be doubling the energy storage capacity of its network over the next 3.5 years to enable the adoption of more renewables in its service area
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Residential Geothermal Startup Dandelion Partners With American Heating And...
Residential geothermal energy solution provider Dandelion has announced a new partnership with American Heating and Cooling that increases its installation capacity in Eastern New York State
View ArticleDOE Providing $140 Million For Utah Geothermal Research
The Department of Energy recently announced that it will give the University of Utah up to $140 million in funding for geothermal research and development over the next five years. The Frontier...
View ArticleUS Renewables Nearly Tied With Nuclear At 20%, Coal Falls To 27%
Renewable energy sources accounted for a fifth of US power generation over the first third of 2018 according to new figures from the US Energy Information Administration, as coal dropped to 27% of...
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Dandelion Energy Has Built The Tesla Of Residential Thermal Management With...
Dandelion plans to change the world of residential geothermal, and it is heading down that long road of transformation starting in the state of New York
View ArticleEIA Data Undermines Trump’s Love Affair With Coal & Nuclear
A handful of reports published over recent weeks by the US Government’s own Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) have revealed that coal and...
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Research Shows That A Low-Carbon Future Will Be A Renewable Future
Almost all existing fossil fuel and nuclear generation assets are coming to end-of-life by 2050. They will have to be replaced. Academic studies show clearly that renewables will replace them close to...
View ArticleUS Renewable Energy Sources Surpass Nuclear In First Half Of 2018
US renewable energy sources accounted for nearly 20% of the country's net electrical generation during the first half of 2018, according to new figures from the US Energy Information Administration,...
View ArticleRenewables = 43% of New Power Capacity in USA in 1st Half of 2018
I'm restarting regular US renewable energy reports here on CleanTechnica. However, this time around, I'm making them quarterly reports instead of monthly reports. Quarterly reports are better at...
View ArticleSolar + Wind = 10% of US Electricity Generation in 1st Half of 2018
To complement our revival of US electricity capacity reports, here's a new report on US electricity generation. As with the capacity report, things are not looking too bright. There's still a lot of...
View ArticleSolar & Wind Energy Destined To Expand Faster Than Other Global Energy...
Global market analyst DNV GL peeled back the layers of its recent forecast on global energy source evolution to reveal that solar & wind energy, buoyed by offshore wind, will grow to represent...
View ArticleCoal & Gas Are Too Variable To Be Worth Considering
Solar and wind power are absolutely predictable when it comes to variable costs. By contrast, coal and gas power are altogether too variable to be reliable
View ArticleGoogle’s Renewable Energy Leadership (#CleanTechnica Interview)
Zachary Shahan, Director & Chief Editor here at CleanTechnica, recently congratulated and interviewed Joseph Kava of Google after they won the Large Corporation Award of the Zayed Future Energy...
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