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The European Union is planning a 15-gigawatt renewable energy tender and auctions for green hydrogen projects as part of a trillion-dollar Green Deal package, according to draft proposals leaked this week. First revealed in December 2019, the EU's Green…

Pacific Gas & Electric is turning to a decidedly low-tech solution to keep its customers’ lights on for this year’s coming fire season: mobile diesel generators.  The bankrupt utility is struggling to secure its grid from causing more deadly…

Wireless electric vehicle charging carries a whiff of the future, like flying cars. But HEVO, a Brooklyn-based startup, aims to make it part of the present by emerging from obscurity with a commercially ready wireless charger this year. The company has…

By any measure, 2019 was a breakout year for energy storage in the U.S. Fueled by improved economics, increased demand for resilience, and the ever-increasing integration of intermittent renewable generation, energy storage installations hit an all-time high…

The shipping industry is charting a new route toward cutting fossil fuel use in ocean-going vessels: ammonia. To date, no ammonia-fueled ships have been built, but that’s not stopping companies including Equinor, MAN Energy Solutions and Wärtsilä from…

Global deployment of renewable energy in 2020 will fall short of last year's tally, the first interruption of year-on-year growth in nearly two decades, according to the International Energy Agency. New data from the IEA released Wednesday reaffirms earlier…

The renewable energy asset class in the U.S., particularly solar and wind projects, is something of a safe-harbor for investors looking for non-correlated, stable, dollar-denominated long-term cash flows. But the solar market, like every sector of our economy,…

Four years after the Block Island project first put wind turbines in American waters, the second U.S. offshore wind farm is about to rise 30 miles off Virginia Beach, and it’s happening in the middle of a pandemic. With two turbines, the Coastal Virginia…

For years, utilities have been offering discounts and rebates on smart thermostats to customers willing to turn them over to air conditioning load-shifting programs that reduce peak loads on hot summer afternoons.  But there’s a big difference between…

Pacific Gas & Electric has asked California regulators to approve seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts, or nearly 1.7 gigawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, to meet its share of a statewide procurement that must be brought online by late next…

Siemens Gamesa on Tuesday launched the largest wind turbine ever publicly announced, a 14-megawatt model with a 222-meter rotor diameter meant for offshore wind farms. Morten Pilgaard Rasmussen, head of technology at Siemens Gamesa, told GTM the company…

Onshore wind is now the leading renewable energy technology in the U.S., and it's still knocking competitors out of the way. Last year wind overtook hydropower in total generation, and 2020 is on track to be a record year for new wind farm construction. But…

Renewable investment manager Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has launched a new solar-and-storage development arm headed by former executives from First Solar, Recurrent Energy and Engie Storage. The new California-based venture, called Primergy, will…

An ongoing battle over Germany’s controversial proposal to block all onshore wind within 1,000 meters of homes could inadvertently dismantle the country’s distributed solar industry. Under Germany's current system, solar systems smaller than 750 kilowatts…

The U.S. solar sector has lost 65,000 jobs due to the COVID-19 crisis, erasing five years of job gains, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). According to a new SEIA analysis, the American solar industry now employs around 188,000…

Swedish battery maker Northvolt and state-owned utility Vattenfall launched a new modular and fully mobile energy storage system on Friday, one they say will be able to patch up stressed grids during a period of rapid electrification. While the system has…

Unlike many of its peers, Sunnova Energy is keeping its 2020 guidance in place. The Houston-based residential solar company expressed a “high level of confidence” that it would meet its goals for the year as it reported earnings for Q1 2020. In the first…

A major analysis of unemployment in the clean energy sector is showing steep job losses in April. According to E2 and BW Research, nearly 600,000 jobs were shed in energy efficiency, manufacturing, electric vehicles and clean power and fuels.  We’ve seen a…

Dramatic reductions in the cost of wind and solar have led to optimism that they can be primary contributors to low-carbon electricity grids. But there's an important obstacle to their profitability: revenue decline. Adding wind and solar to the grid tends…

Hawaiian Electric this week selected 16 winning solar-storage and standalone battery projects totaling 460 megawatts of solar capacity and nearly 3 gigawatt-hours of storage, as the utility moves to close fossil fuel plants in the state. Among the chosen…