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This week’s Grid Edge Innovation Summit 2019 conference in San Diego covered a broad range of technologies that are changing the nature of the electricity system, from distributed energy resources (DERs) like rooftop solar PV, behind-the-meter batteries and…

Democrats are dominating the public dialogue on climate change. That is just a fact. It’s part of their party platform in a way that it’s simply not for Republicans. And yet, things aren’t entirely black and white — or blue and red.…

Denmark’s Ørsted won New Jersey’s first offshore wind solicitation with a 1.1-gigawatt project known as Ocean Wind, the largest offshore wind project to secure a development deal with a U.S. state to date.…

Maine Aqua Ventus, the most advanced floating offshore wind project in U.S. waters, expects to announce a new investor by this fall, following the signing of legislation this week by Maine Governor Janet Mills requiring the state’s Public Utilities…

When recent headlines announced that rare earth elements might become a weapon in the growing trade war between the U.S. and China, green tech leaders may have suffered from flashbacks.…

Microgrid startup Go Electric secured a rare cleantech hardware exit when acquired by battery maker Saft this week.…

The global front-of-the-meter (FTM) solar-plus-storage market took off in 2018, with more than 6 times as many new solar-paired storage megawatts deployed than in the previous year. 2019 is also forecasted to be a strong year for FTM solar-plus-storage.…

New York and New Jersey policymakers have established some of the nation’s most ambitious offshore wind targets. New Jersey plans to deploy 3,500 megawatts (MW) offshore wind capacity by 2030; New York is aiming for 9,000 MW installed by 2035.…

Blockchain’s energy industry promise has come a step closer to reality with the launch of the first public, open-source, enterprise-grade blockchain for the sector.…