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New York’s Hudson Valley is known for its artist communities, antique shops and rolling farms. Fast forward a few years and there may be a new feature: giant offshore wind components floating downriver on barges, with new riverside factories helping to…

Last week, short-term blackouts rolled across an overheated California after the grid operator said there wasn't enough power to meet demand.  This wasn’t supposed to happen again. Not after the Enron scandal. Not after 19 years of reforms. We have a very…

Before the pandemic, one of the biggest news stories of the year was BlackRock’s decision to make climate risk a central part of its investment strategy. This isn’t your average family office; this is BlackRock, a company with $7 trillion under management.…

Back in 2016, First Solar proved that utility-scale solar farms can provide critical transmission grid services in a California pilot project. Four years later, the leading U.S.-based solar module maker has taken the next big step in turning this capability…

Lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) will become increasingly popular for stationary energy storage applications, overtaking lithium-manganese-cobalt-oxide (NMC) within a decade, Wood Mackenzie shared in a new report. As demand from electric vehicles and the…

Swiss asset manager Capital Dynamics quickly compiled one of the most ambitious energy storage pipelines in the U.S. The firm is teaming up with Tenaska to develop and operate nine battery projects totalling nearly 2 gigawatts and up to 7.8 gigawatt-hours of…

The coronavirus pandemic has shrunk economies significantly, with two opposing impacts: 1) a serious decline in greenhouse gas emissions; good for the planet in the short-term; 2) a serious decline in new project development of all types, including green…

Texas, home of the U.S. oil and gas industry, has become a clean energy superpower. The state already leads the nation in wind-power generation and solar is booming. Last year, Texas generated more electricity from renewable energy sources than from coal. Now,…

A heavyweight team led by renewables veteran Dr. Eddie O’Connor is pushing for a new grid infrastructure to link Europe’s wind and solar resource centers. The group, working for an Irish company called SuperNode, is looking to develop superconducting cable…

Stealthy grid infrastructure developer LS Power now operates the largest grid battery in the world. The Gateway Energy Storage launched earlier this summer, with an initial tranche of 62.5 megawatts/62.5 megawatt-hours. That was enough to make it the most…

After a massive heatwave in California that led grid operator CAISO to order its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis on Friday and Saturday, the state has thus far managed to avoid further forced outages.  While temperatures dropped a bit…

The past decade has seen an evolution in the microgrid market aimed at bringing the benefits of emergency backup generation — and in some cases, the clean energy value of solar and batteries — to a class of customers that can’t afford the complex,…

In the first of a three-part series, Greentech Media's Julian Spector looks at the lessons and implications from last year's APS battery fire. *** The energy storage industry didn't wait for the outcome of Arizona Public Service's year-long investigation…

Green hydrogen is the talk of the power sector these days, but it will be at least a decade before it becomes a major line item on the books of European utilities and generators, executives say. Gigawatt-scale green hydrogen projects have sprung up on three…

California undertook its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis, as a heatwave slammed the Western U.S. Friday and Saturday. Electricity demand for air-conditioning throughout the region stretched California's power capacity and limited the…

Trade wars have become synonymous with the Trump administration. Since taking office, President Trump — a self-proclaimed “tariff man” — has thrown trade duties at billions of dollars in goods, including wine, tulip bulbs, aluminum and steel, uncooked…

Coal power is on borrowed time. Its exit from the U.S. mix is accelerating. In the U.K., records for consecutive days without any coal power at all have been tumbling. Later this month, Germany will hold a reverse auction that will see the country paying hard…

A heat wave across the Western U.S. this weekend will push California’s grid to the limits, as the state charts a course to eliminating fossil fuel power. The weather forecast calls for several days of more than 100 degree Fahrenheit highs across the…

“Electrify everything” isn’t just a good slogan. It’s the fastest way to decarbonize and create tens of millions of jobs — and it can be done using off-the-shelf technology.  A respected squad of researchers did the math on a swap-out of every aging…

Dan Seif is vice president for market development at 7X Energy, a Texas-based solar developer. *** Let’s stop pretending that we’re paying for “energy” in our home power bills and understand we’re mainly paying for infrastructure. Home electric…