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South African independent power producers (IPPs) are hoping for the return of a national procurement program next year following a stop-gap auction ending this month. Offers to cover 2 gigawatts of ‘risk mitigation’ IPP capacity are due in by Dec. 22,…

It will take a massive war-time mobilization effort to effectively address the climate emergency, argues Saul Griffith — inventor, MacArthur genius fellow, CEO of Otherlab, and co-founder of Rewiring America, an organization dedicated to creating millions of…

Pacific Gas & Electric is asking state regulators to approve another massive round of energy storage procurements, including its first large-scale contract for behind-the-meter batteries to serve grid needs. The six projects announced Wednesday add up to 387…

Clean energy industry groups are cheering the last-minute inclusion of key tax incentive extensions and billions of dollars in research and development funds that found their way into the $2.4 trillion spending package and coronavirus relief bill passed by…

Hannon Armstrong and Clearway Energy Group are jointly investing about $950 million in a nearly 2 gigawatt portfolio of existing and new wind, solar and energy storage projects, capping off a year of record-setting U.S. renewables growth with an eye on even…

Spain has launched a tender for up to 3.18 gigawatts of renewable generation in the first auction under a pay-as-bid model introduced earlier this year.  The model, similar to the contracts for difference program used in the U.K., aims to correct problems…

The massive spending bill awaiting passage by the U.S. Congress on Monday could include $35 billion in energy R&D programs, a two-year extension of the investment tax credit (ITC) for solar power, a one-year extension of the production tax credit (PTC) for…

Picture an African minigrid and chances are you’ll think of a rural electrification project. But increasingly the reality on the ground is a different matter, according to experts. If there’s a major minigrid opportunity in Africa right now, it’s in…

Goodbye 2020. We’re not sad to see you go.  Even though this year brought a lot of outright bad stuff, it also brought a lot of positive, nuanced storylines in energy. We’re going to tackle as many of them as possible, using suggestions from our listeners…

It’s been a great year for "climate" oriented public companies. Virtually every clean energy or climate company has dramatically outperformed market indices and most now have record-high equity value.  So what's going on here? And what might it mean for the…

Throughout his campaign, President-elect Joe Biden made it clear that building back better with clean energy would mean millions and millions of new jobs for Americans. And he’s right: clean energy jobs are in fact better jobs. The proof is in the numbers.…

The U.S. can get half of its electricity from renewables by 2030 — but it will take more than executive actions from the incoming Biden-Harris administration to get there.  So finds a new report from Wood Mackenzie analyzing the investments and policy…

Vestas, the world’s largest maker of wind turbines has taken a 25 percent stake in the renewable asset manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The €500 million ($612 million) deal will include an upfront payment of €180 million and €320…

The European Union wants to build 40 gigawatts of green hydrogen electrolyzers by 2030, and estimates that 80 to 120 gigawatts of solar and wind will be needed to power them. That’s a fresh headache for Europe’s grid operators. Decarbonization is expected…

Representative Deb Haaland, a Democrat from New Mexico, is Biden’s pick for the top job at the Department of Interior, according to Thursday news reports. If confirmed, Haaland, an enrolled citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna, would be the first Native American…

The Biden-Harris transition team is expected to select Michael Regan, who currently heads North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality, as the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, according to Thursday news reports. Before…

Google on Wednesday unveiled plans to install its first backup battery at a data center, with ambitions to use the project as a test case for grid service applications. The 3-megawatt, 2-hour duration battery will be installed at a Google data center in…

US solar PV system costs fell across all market segments from 2019 to 2020, as module prices continued to drive system costs down. While a shortage of glass and ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) laminate caused solar module prices to increase at the end of 2020,…

The United States can set a course to net-zero carbon by midcentury if it can radically overhaul its energy generation, transport, building and industrial sectors over the next decade, according to a major study from Princeton University.  And while the…

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400 megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to…