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Dominion Energy is replacing its CEO as part of an executive shakeup accompanying the Virginia utility’s major shift away from natural gas and toward a renewable energy future, and its hefty financial penalty for its cancellation of the Atlantic Coast…

Ryan Wiser leads the Electricity Markets and Policy Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where Mark Bolinger is a research scientist. *** Aging is a fact of life, for people and equipment alike. But the negative impact of aging on wind and…

The world looked bleak for startups in the spring. According to figures from Crunchbase, venture capital deals were down 44 percent from March to June compared with last year. Seed-stage deals took the biggest hit, down nearly 60 percent. But series B deals…

Residential solar company Sunnova came out of a daunting Q2 in better financial shape than it’s ever been. Earlier in the year, the disruption of the coronavirus pandemic and public safety response prompted most leading solar companies to revoke their…

In its first quarterly earnings report since its exit from an 18-month bankruptcy caused by its massive wildfire liabilities, Pacific Gas & Electric laid out its progress on securing its grid from causing more fires and limiting the scale of future…

Chevron announced it will build 500 megawatts of renewable energy plants to power some of its global facilities, in what amounts to a sizeable clean-energy upscaling for an oil giant with comparatively few big investments in renewables to date. Chevron will…

Wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa posted a €466 million ($558 million) loss on Thursday as a string of impairments and a slump in onshore sales took their toll. The company’s fiscal year Q3 results are the first under the leadership of new CEO Andreas…

Last fall, community choice aggregators serving three Northern California counties announced plans to deploy thousands of solar-battery systems to provide backup power to residents facing the threat of fire-prevention blackouts. Now they’ve picked Sunrun,…

There’s been a lot of talk recently about a “green recovery” and “building back better.” But what do these concepts really mean? What are the most compelling ideas being put forward by economists, policymakers, grassroots leaders and other experts?…

Dan Yates and his co-founder Alex Laskey built Opower, an efficiency company that saves more energy every year than the hoover dam can generate. It was based on cutting-edge behavioral science — but it wasn’t always clear how the science would play out.…

San Antonio municipal utility CPS Energy wants to replace aging fossil fueled generation with more than a gigawatt of solar, energy storage and flexible capacity, and it’s asking for ideas on how to get there.  This week’s request for information (RFI)…

EDF Renewables plans to build a 200-megawatt solar plant with a 180 megawatt/720 megawatt-hour battery for Nevada utility NV Energy, the developer announced Wednesday, adding to the growing list of large solar-and-storage projects under construction within the…

Oil major Shell and Dutch utility Eneco will build a super-hybrid offshore wind farm, having won the latest Dutch tender. Shell is chasing carbon neutrality by 2050 or sooner and the project in the Netherlands offers a glimpse of how it hopes to get there.…

Swedish battery maker Northvolt announced that it has raised $1.6 billion of debt, more than doubling its capital as it readies its first production facility. Northvolt is in the process of building its first gigafactory, Northvolt Ett in northern Sweden, with…

Since its acquisition of SolarCity in 2016, Tesla has systematically eliminated all active customer acquisition channels. In 2017 the company stopped door-to-door sales. In 2018, it pulled out of its retail partnership with Home Depot before finally closing…

California is readying what could be the next game-changing update to its building performance standards. Building performance standards have been saving Californians energy and money for four decades. Occasionally, updates to the standards, which are…

The EU wants to become a net-zero emitter of greenhouse gases by 2050. And that's pretty much where the consensus stops. A number of pathways have been proposed for reaching "climate-neutrality," but a close look reveals sizable discrepancies between them.…

Jason Dreisbach fields at least half a dozen calls every week from people trying to sell him a technology to lower his energy costs. As the owner of Dreisbach Enterprises, a cold storage facility owner with operations in Northern California, he's a popular…

The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a wrench into U.S. microgrid development, and may delay project origination and timelines over the next year, according to Wood Mackenzie’s latest review and forecast.  The first half of 2020 was the slowest for the U.S.…

The second quarter of 2020 provided a clearer picture of the dramatic impact that COVID-19 is having on the grid edge sector in the United States and abroad. The restrictions imposed to fight the pandemic, coupled with the unfolding economic downturn, have…