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By 2030, Wood Mackenzie expects wind, solar and batteries to dominate Europe's grid mix. But it may be happening even sooner. In the first half of 2020, renewables (solar, wind, hydro and biomass) beat out fossil fuels on the European grid for the first time.…

Duke Energy submitted a settlement with large solar developers including Cypress Creek Renewables and Strata Solar to North Carolina regulators on Thursday that aims to resolve longstanding interconnection issues in the utility’s territory. The agreement…

Laura Sherman is president of the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council. Building electrification is a potential game-changer for energy efficiency, demand management, distributed energy and other advanced energy industries, as well as for the broader…

The U.S. solar market registered pandemic-related pain in the second quarter of 2020, as expected, after logging its highest first quarter of growth ever at the outset of the year. Residential solar installations dropped by nearly 25 percent from Q1 to Q2…

European oil majors BP and Equinor will partner up for the U.S. offshore wind market, marking BP's first substantial move into the offshore wind industry. The deal will see BP paying $1.1 billion for a 50 percent stake in Equinor’s Empire Wind project off…

A year after launching, solar software startup Terabase Energy has raised $6 million to keep growing its team and services. The Berkeley-based company emerged when SunPower wound down its project development business. Several former SunPower employees built…

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected the latest proposal from New York's grid operator to allow renewable energy and batteries to compete against fossil fuels in its wholesale capacity market. That may give the state's regulators…

What’s the problem with nuclear energy? At a time when lawmakers are scratching their heads over how to decarbonize national energy systems, nuclear is sitting on a technology that is low-carbon, mature and, despite the odd meltdown, relatively safe. Yet…

Denmark's Ørsted, the world's leading offshore wind developer, has appointed Mads Nipper as its next CEO. Nipper will replace Henrik Poulsen from 1 January 2021. Poulsen, who resigned in June, led the company for eight years, overseeing its transformation…

Violet Power, an Oregon-based solar startup helmed by the recently retired director of the Department of Energy’s solar office, plans to build a fully integrated manufacturing plant in Washington State. After ramping through 2021, the Violet factory will be…

This is the third part of a series examining the McMicken battery fire of 2019 and its ramifications for the energy storage industry. This installment addresses the lessons for fighting fires at battery facilities. Part I covered how battery developers have…

Duke Energy’s options for reaching net-zero carbon by midcentury will look a lot different than those being pursued by utilities in the sun-soaked Western U.S., or the wind-rich Great Plains, or even those sharing the same Atlantic coastline.  That’s a…

Hannah Polikov is managing director at Advanced Energy Economy, a trade association for the clean energy sectors. *** In December, we published a list of the top 10 utility regulation trends of 2019. With 2020 now past the halfway point, we check in on the top…

In January, the world's largest asset manager issued a warning shot that the status quo on climate change is not going to cut it. In his annual letter, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink wrote: “We don’t yet know which predictions about the climate will be most…

There are still questions about what exactly caused California’s blackouts during last month’s heat wave. We know that imports were down, natural gas plants tripped off line, and wind generation fell.  But what about all those air conditioners, batteries…

Australian energy chiefs have welcomed the release today of two reports setting out options for the country’s future electricity market makeup. A post-2025 market design consultation paper from the Energy Security Board (ESB) and the Coordination of…

The largest wind trade group in the U.S. announced Friday it will officially broaden its mission beyond wind as part of a newly-formed industry group. The American Wind Energy Association, which advocated for that industry and its member companies for over…

Oil major Total and carmaker Groupe PSA have taken the next step in their lithium-ion battery manufacturing tie-up with the launch of a new joint venture company and the first management appointments. The Automotive Cells Company (ACC) is the focal point for…

Utility Global, a Utah-based startup focused on solid oxide electrolyzer technology, claims to have received investment offers from oil majors after coming up with what it calls a hydrogen breakthrough. The innovation is a new solid oxide electrochemical…

Today, Van Jones is best known as a CNN host and author of three best-selling books.  But long before the Green New Deal, Jones was on the front lines of clean energy, trying to bring green jobs to black and brown communities. He helped spearhead the…