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In this new GTM series, we're asking people in cleantech to tell us what their job is 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…

Air Products & Chemicals, the U.S. industrial gas giant, announced plans on Tuesday to build a green hydrogen plant in Saudi Arabia powered by 4 gigawatts of wind and solar power, the world's largest such project announced so far. The $5 billion plant will…

California-based solar installer Sunrun plans to acquire competitor Vivint Solar for $3.2 billion, the companies announced Monday night. The price rivals that of other high-profile clean energy acquisitions; Tesla bought SolarCity for $2.6 billion in 2016,…

Legal challenges halted several major pipeline projects across the U.S. in recent days, underscoring a seismic shift facing the U.S. utility industry: the rise of renewables as a potentially less costly and risky alternative to fossil fuels. Over the…

BP is teaming up with JinkoSolar to take on China's vast clean energy market for commercial and industrial (C&I) customers. Coming amid its pivot toward lower-carbon energy sources, BP announced a memorandum of understanding on Monday with JinkoPower…

As one of the first investors in the U.S. solar market, Brad Bauer’s led teams to “boldly go where no one has gone before.” In his fifteen years working in renewables, Bauer co-founded one of the industry's first private "YieldCos", raised nearly a…

U.S. utility group Dominion Energy agreed Sunday to sell most of its natural gas business and abandon its multi-billion dollar Atlantic Coast Pipeline project with Duke Energy meant to supply its home-state market of Virginia.  The announcement marks a…

Far from depressing the market, the response to the COVID-19 outbreak looks set to accelerate the take-up of electric vehicles across Europe. The combined market share of EVs and plug-in hybrids jumped 6.8 percent in the first quarter of the year,…

The group claiming status as a ratepayer advocacy group in its attempt to get federal regulators to override state net metering regimes has finally revealed the identity of one of its members. But that revelation appears to strengthen claims by its opponents…

Portland General Electric, the largest utility in Oregon, is jumping into the cutting-edge business of turning home batteries into grid resources. The company announced this week that it has received approval from regulators to link up 525 homes with…

The U.K. government has approved Vattenfall’s 1,800-megawatt Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind farm, but Ørsted will have to wait until December for approval of its next U.K. project, the 2,400-megawatt Hornsea 3. The projects, both off the east coast of…

There’s more political momentum than ever around achieving net zero emissions by 2050, especially following the release of House Democrats’ new Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy.  But where do we currently stand on that trajectory? And…

The North American arm of European energy giant Engie SA and climate-focused investor Hannon Armstrong announced Thursday they will partner on a 2.3-gigawatt portfolio of U.S. wind and solar projects slated for completion this year. The two will split equity…

Japan’s Hitachi has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in ABB Power Grids worth up to $7.8 billion, creating a new business aimed at tackling the renewable and distributed energy frontiers of the power industry.  Hitachi ABB Power Grids is the…

Green hydrogen may get all the headlines, but the prospect of it fueling Europe's future hydrogen economy on its own look increasingly questionable. Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas, with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology scooping up the…

On Tuesday, Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on the Climate Crisis unveiled a mammoth and wide-ranging policy plan to embed climate action and resilience within the country’s economy. The report — which aimed to put…

Arizona Public Service released its plan for reaching zero-carbon by 2050, with multiple options to balance the costs and carbon benefits of switching from coal and natural gas to renewables, batteries, distributed energy resources and as-yet untested…

Despite a strong track record on renewables innovation, Australia may be running out of time to become a clean energy export powerhouse — and further funding for homegrown innovation is now in jeopardy. The budget for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency…

The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and coming recession is expected to drive down pricing for both front-of-the-meter solar and storage systems even faster than expected. Project construction delays and tightening consumer spending will drive down…

Batteries aren’t dead when they come to the end of their useful life in an electric vehicle. Reused or “second-life” lithium-ion batteries still have a lot of juice left in them, but so far using these batteries in stationary applications has yet to gain…