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In the past few months, three British offshore wind projects have been delayed, a total of 6 gigawatts. On Tuesday evening a fourth was blocked altogether. Although the industry maintains its faith in the support from the government, there is anger and concern…

Residential batteries outperformed the rest of the energy storage sector in first quarter deployments. The first quarter of 2020 marked the fourth consecutive record for home battery installations, according to the new Energy Storage Monitor, from Wood…

Earlier this year, Pacific Gas & Electric faced pushback from environmental and solar and energy storage industry groups to a plan to deploy natural gas generators to back up communities facing multi-day fire-prevention blackouts. The groups argued that…

Businesses worldwide are getting behind the move to cleaner energy systems. But a significant minority of investors remains wary of shifting regulations, according to research in May from Ashurst, an international law firm. The firm’s Powering Change: Energy…

UK Power Networks, a wires-only utility managing three distribution grids in the United Kingdom and serving approximately 20 million people, is implementing a novel holistic approach to network operations and DER lifecycle management. Their new approach, which…

Whether booming off-grid power demand in emerging markets is met with grid extension or distributed renewables will be central to the growth story of the global clean power sector. As the technological and financial toolbelt for providing affordable, reliable,…

Forecasting load growth and planning the utility investments necessary to handle changing electricity demand used to be a straightforward exercise. Utility planners knew that customers in their service territory more or less shared the same load pattern. The…

Offshore wind is one trend where Europe's renewable energy industry has taken an early lead. Corporate PPAs? Not so much. But as corporate onshore wind and solar deals pick up in Europe, the first handful of offshore wind deals are now getting done.…

California’s energy past is on a collision course with its future. Think of major oil-producing U.S. states, and Texas, Alaska, or North Dakota probably come to mind. Although its position relative to other states has been falling for 20 years, California…

Utility National Grid on Friday released results of the second phase of an extended solar interconnection study that has entangled nearly 1 gigawatt of projects in Massachusetts over the last year, and stymied development for some. Over 300 megawatts of…

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the cusp of ending its year-and-a-half stint in bankruptcy. But whether it can successfully rebuild its finances and make its power grid safer without drastically raising rates on millions of customers is far from clear. On…

Cleve Hill, the U.K.'s largest-ever solar project, received its government planning approvals this week. The question is how the 350-megawatt development proceeds from here in a large-scale solar market that has all but died out. Located in southeastern…

In this Greentech Media series, we’re asking people with jobs in cleantech — from installing solar panels, to permitting wind projects, to promoting building energy efficiency software — to tell us what they really do all day. We hope this series can…

Three major European grid operators are rolling out a new blockchain platform to tap the growing penetration of small-scale distributed energy resources for grid balancing.  As behind-the-meter resources like batteries, heat pumps and electric cars…

Gia Schneider and her brother Abe started Natel Energy based on a hydropower turbine their father designed. And after more than a decade of R&D, pilots, software development and a project for Apple, Natel is preparing for the next level of scale. “Our…

A court this week again rebuffed the Trump administration's efforts to put tariffs on imported bifacial solar modules. A Wednesday ruling from the United States Court of International Trade means the federal government must continue to allow bifacial solar…

The U.S. Treasury Department released much-anticipated guidance Wednesday that offers onshore wind and solar projects more time to meet tax credit deadlines. Wind was the big winner: onshore projects that started construction in 2016 and 2017 will now have…

American Electric Power has secured enough state regulator approvals to move ahead with a 1,485-megawattt wind power project in Oklahoma — even if Texas regulators end up denying its plans.  AEP announced on Wednesday that it has received approvals from…

The U.S. got more energy from renewables in 2019 than it did from coal, a year sooner than that same milestone is expected for the electricity sector on its own, according to the Energy Information Administration. Last year the U.S. consumed 11.3 quadrillion…

Greed is good. At least, it’s good for decarbonization. This week on The Interchange podcast, we have a new edition of the fantasy decarbonization draft -- this one focused on acquiring and restructuring public companies.  We’re joining the ranks of…