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In 2015, I was sitting with representatives of Strata Solar, Southern Company and the Arkansas Utility Commission, waiting to go onstage . We were the last session of the last day of the conference in question—a tough time slot.  The speakers were talking…

Shell will trial a battery-backed ultra-fast charging system at a Dutch filling station, with a view to adopting the format more widely to east the grid pressures to come from mass-market electric vehicle adoption.  By boosting the output of the chargers…

In the decades since the voluntary renewable energy credit (REC) marketplace cropped up, a bevy of options for acquiring renewables has bloomed. Companies can choose from buying RECs, investing in onsite renewables and signing virtual power purchase…

“Disappointing.” That’s how a range of clean energy advocates and demand response providers are describing the California Public Utilities Commission’s latest plan to prevent a repeat of the state’s August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer. …

Money doesn't just sit in savings accounts doing nothing. Banks recirculate deposited cash as loans — for cars, homes, even oil pipelines — and pay customers interest for the service. Startup Atmos Financial ensures that the money its customers deposit…

A national auction in Latin America this year could offer a lifeline to a renewable energy technology that seems to be entering terminal decline.  Chile is one of just two countries in the world that is likely to offer opportunities this year for developers…

Spain’s first payout of coronavirus recovery funds will target clean transportation, with a still-in-development plan to create an in-country industrial supply chain for electric vehicles and their supporting battery manufacturing capacity.   A battery…

Over the past decade, Mainspring Energy has been at work on a novel "linear generator" that it says can provide on-site electricity with lower emissions than fossil-fueled engines and microturbines, and greater flexibility than fuel cells.  On Tuesday,…

Jigar Shah has decades of experience bringing clean energy technologies to commercial scale. As CEO and co-founder of SunEdison, he helped pioneer the solar power purchase agreement (PPA) model now central to the industry. As president and co-founder of…

Small modular reactors (SMRs) —nuclear reactors using novel technologies to fit into much smaller and mass-producible packages than the behemoth nuclear power plants of today — are presented as a way of rapidly decarbonizing the grid in the face of an…

The German government has agreed to a multi-billion Euro compensation deal with major utility firms on Friday over its ongoing nuclear energy phase-out. The majority of the €2.4 billion ($2.9 billion) compensation package will be awarded to RWE and…

Duke Energy’s plan to build gigawatts of new natural gas generators to supply its grid over the next 15 years has already drawn fire from clean energy advocates, who say it violates the utility’s long-range decarbonization goals and could leave customers…

FlexGen supplied large-scale grid batteries to ERCOT before the energy storage market took off there. Now, the founder has exited and the company has brought on new leaders from the solar startup world to grow business nationwide. Kelcy Pegler took over as…

The business of demand response — cutting energy use to reduce peak grid demands — has evolved with the growing capability of technologies to enable it over the decades, from the manual emergency load shedding of the past, to the modern incarnation of…

In September 2020, China’s President Xi Jinping told the UN General Assembly that the country was aiming to be carbon neutral by 2060. In December he set a 2030 wind and solar capacity goal of 1,200 gigawatts, up from around 450 GW today. The publication of…

The lush island nation of Samoa and the densely packed urban neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn may seem to have little in common. Yet they are both at the forefront of some of the most cutting-edge clean energy projects in their respective geographies. In…

The Biden administration stood behind Trump’s stance on solar tariffs in a Monday filing with the U.S. International Court of Trade, a move that could harm efforts to challenge those duties from the solar industry’s largest trade group. The new…

Accurate descriptions of the U.S. clean energy market have always required a bit of nuance. Installations of solar panels, wind turbines and energy storage have routinely vaulted the U.S. to the top of global rankings of market size. According to Wood…

In the spring of 2019, the sky in parts of West Texas opened up, in some areas dropping hailstones as big as baseballs, according to the National Weather Service. Beyond cracking car windows and damaging rooftops, the hailstorm struck a 180-megawatt…

The financial fallout from the Texas energy system collapse of two weeks ago has begun. And with tens of billions of dollars in energy costs yet to be settled from a week of sky-high wholesale electricity prices in the midst of a breakdown of the state’s…