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Even as the coronavirus pandemic sent the U.S. economy into freefall this spring, the energy storage industry delivered its second-best quarter ever in terms of megawatts installed. Despite social distancing orders, more customers than ever before added…

The U.S. microgrid market is growing, with a record 546 microgrids installed during 2019. Most of those projects were below 5 megawatts. This is a continuation of the trend starting in 2017: smaller, more modular projects consistently grew each year. As the…

California is becoming a poster child for the risks utilities face from climate change, from power lines starting wildfires to heatwaves forcing increasingly renewable-powered grids to the brink of system collapse.  But utilities around the world are facing…

Michael Pariser is on the origination and power marketing team at EDF Renewables North America. **** Many of the largest corporate electricity consumers in the U.S. have committed to reducing their carbon footprint by powering their operations with renewable…

Two capital markets days in the space of a week have offered a forensic look at wind turbine supplier Siemens Gamesa and its new parent company, Siemens Energy. The latter’s IPO is now just weeks away, planned for September 28, and after much speculation,…

Consumers rely on labels and scores to understand the attributes and performance of the products they buy. There are miles-per-gallon ratings for cars, nutrition labels for food and Energy Star ratings for appliances. But when it comes to the energy…

Duke Energy has detailed the various paths its Carolina utilities could take over the next 15 years, a choice that will determine how quickly Duke cuts its carbon footprint and how much it will cost. Duke’s 2020 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), filed…

Ørsted, a developer synonymous with offshore wind, will have a novel experience in 2021: all of the new power plants it completes will be onshore, and most will involve solar panels. Since building the world’s first offshore wind project 30 years ago off…

Small-scale modular nuclear reactors have gone from being a technology that’s always a decade away from being built to one that may actually enter into commercial production in the next decade.  At least that’s how NuScale sees its future unfolding,…

Solar accounted for nearly half of all new power generation capacity added worldwide in 2019, passing wind as the fourth largest source of capacity on a cumulative basis, according to newly released data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. “PV is now truly…

French oil major Total and Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) announced plans on Tuesday to develop a 2.3-gigawatt portfolio of floating offshore wind projects in South Korea. The pair said they will each take a 50 percent stake in five Korean…

The upcoming U.S. presidential election will dictate the pace of decarbonization in the world’s largest economy for decades, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan, including a pledge to set…

Storage and inverter company OutBack Power has launched a new home backup system that combines three technologies: solar, storage and natural gas or diesel generators. OutBack will work with Bay City Electric Works, a distributor of generators made by bath and…

The growth of distributed energy resources (DERs) like rooftop solar, behind the meter batteries, electric vehicle chargers and intelligent load controls is changing the world of building energy management, and pushing the world’s biggest building…

In this new GTM series, we're asking people in cleantech to tell us what their jobs are like. We hope the series can serve as a source of information and inspiration for recent graduates, professionals planning their careers or anyone who wants to transition…

A new study of 3,000 power companies across the globe has found that only a handful have been cutting their fossil fuel capacity over the last two decades. Much of the new renewable capacity being built around the world is being offset by new coal and gas…

California grid regulators approved the largest utility-led electric vehicle charging deployment in the country on Thursday. The new program allows Southern California Edison to spend $436 million of ratepayer funds to install 38,000 light-duty electric car…

TerraPower, the Bill Gates-backed nuclear innovation firm, has launched a new small modular reactor (SMR) system paired with molten salt storage unit. The new concept, Natrium, is being developed in partnership with GE Hitachi Nuclear Power. According to the…

Exelon is following through with a threat to close two of its Illinois nuclear power plants by next year unless it receives state support to boost their financial viability, a move that could undermine the state's  carbon-free electricity goals.  But with a…

This week: how an innocuous grid-modeling project became a threat to Trump’s efforts to save coal, and then languished inside the Department of Energy. It’s one of many pieces of research that have been suppressed by the current administration. What is the…