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Wind turbine OEM Siemens Gamesa is cutting 266 jobs in Spain with the closure of two factories, it announced on Tuesday, with falling appetite for smaller wind turbines the chief cause. The facilities in Cuenca, in central Spain, and La Coruña in the north,…

This is the second article in a series. Read part one here. It’s easy to see what’s motivating India’s emerging ecosystem of sustainable technology startups with a glance out the window from the office of Sangam Ventures in Gurugram, just outside of…

Wind and solar make up a small share of U.S. electricity production today, but they're poised to supply 70 percent of new power plant capacity built this year. That's not according to pro-solar activists or industry trade groups. It's the calculation of the…

We are going to build a lot more wind and solar over the coming decades. It will inevitably lead to oversupply of these resources on the grid. But is that a good thing? That’s the focus of this week’s show, featuring a conversation between Shayle Kann and…

New York state has awarded 2.5 gigawatts of offshore wind projects to developers Equinor and BP, the largest yet in the state’s massive offshore wind buildout and one of the largest single U.S. renewable energy contracts yet awarded.  Wednesday’s award,…

A little while back, I was at an industry happy hour (hey, remember those?) where I ran into a friend and well-known industry analyst, Wood Mackenzie’s Michelle Davis. We had caught up earlier in the week about the commercial and industrial (‘C&I’) solar…

The modern, renewable energy-rich power grid is an increasingly complicated machine to model. Maybe technology born of the massively complicated world of designing computer chips can help.  That’s the genesis of Pearl Street Technologies’ approach to…

Proterra, builder of electric buses, heavy-duty vehicle drivetrains, batteries and charging systems, plans to go public on the NASDAQ exchange via merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), the latest in a string of EV companies seeking access…

Rob Gramlich, president of Grid Strategies, has a simple explanation for why U.S. transmission grid policy has stalled the growth of wind and solar power.  “If you talk to a developer, they will say, the grid operators and transmission owners are woefully…

French utility Engie and developer Neoen are planning to invest about €1 billion ($1.2 billion) to build a 1-gigawatt solar-powered low carbon energy park in France, comfortably breaking records for Europe's largest solar project and incorporating green…

Homes need a lot more digital smarts nowadays to manage rooftop solar, backup batteries and electric vehicle chargers. It’s nice if those distributed energy resources (DERs) can be integrated with household electrical load controls via smartphone or Alexa or…

Global offshore wind developer Ørsted has become the latest major player to pursue off-grid green hydrogen, a technology that could expand capacity for converting offshore wind power to zero-carbon energy. The Danish firm along with ITM Power, Siemens Gamesa…

Just before New Year, offshore wind farm developer Ørsted’s 2.4GW Hornsea Project Three was given the green light by the U.K. government. But the project highlighted the potential conflict between climate change mitigation and nature protection. A…

New Jersey’s biggest utility has gotten the go-ahead to deploy about 2.3 million smart meters — but with regulator insistence that it share the benefits of the data they will collect with its customers.  Thursday’s approval of Public Service Electric &…

Hawaii's island of Kauai further burnished its reputation for figuring out clean energy years ahead of the mainland. The nonprofit Kauai Island Utility Cooperative signed a deal with AES to deliver power throughout the night from a solar-charged water…

Study after study over the past decade have concluded that expanding the U.S. transmission grid will play a key role in decarbonizing the country’s electricity system.  But a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology study indicates that a massive…

In the final moments of 2020, the most important U.S. energy legislation in a decade flew in under the radar, attached to the coronavirus relief and government funding bill.  It’s an astonishing collection of measures. It sets aside $35 Billion in new…

Plug Power has raised $1.5 billion from South Korea’s SK Group, aimed at boosting hydrogen fuel cells and green hydrogen electrolyzers as a cleaner source of energy for transport and industry throughout Asian markets.  Wednesday’s announcement marks the…

Net-zero commitments went mainstream in 2020. There are now 22 regions, 452 cities, and over 1,100 companies with revenues over $11 trillion that have pledged to bring emissions to net zero by middle of the century.  In 2021 we’re going to spend a lot of…

A new active network management project in the U.K. will lay the foundations for a flexibility platform encompassing centralized and decentralized assets — the latest step in the country's push to enlist distributed energy resources (DERs) at grand scale to…