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Dominion Energy plans to comply with Virginia’s new clean energy law by shifting to a much heavier reliance on renewable energy and energy storage — starting with a near-term solicitation for up to 1 gigawatt of onshore wind and solar and 250 megawatts…

With assets installed far from shore in harsh conditions, offshore wind turbine manufacturers and project operators are turning to new digital tools to optimize performance, boost power production, and minimize downtime. One such tool is the use of digital…

The coronavirus pandemic has not changed the grim reality facing workers at coal and nuclear power plants in the U.S. and Europe. How those workers will fare in the years ahead will vary greatly based on where they live and the prevailing political winds. In…

Southern California Edison has signed seven contracts for a combined 770 megawatts of battery energy storage projects, one of the biggest single procurements of its kind. The utility also wants to turn them on by August 2021, which would be a record-fast…

Mega-solar projects topping 500 megawatts have cropped up in many regions of the U.S., but land constraints have mostly kept such behemoths out of the Southeast — until now. Two weeks ago sPower secured tax equity financing for a 620-megawatt project it…

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…

The whistle has blown on the latest major offshore wind auction in Europe, the first since the coronavirus pandemic took hold. The results, and the level of interest, could offer some guidance on the offshore sector’s resilience in the face of unprecedented…

California's plan to equip vulnerable citizens with batteries to keep the lights on during the upcoming fire season has gotten bogged down by bureaucracy, and coronavirus is making things worse. In a landmark move, California regulators last year redirected…

Famed software pioneer and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is out with a new piece, called “It’s time to build,” that is making the rounds among the thinkfluencer crowd. It’s part call-to-arms and part flogging over America’s inability to build.…

The modern American nuclear power industry is not known for its punctuality, but the spread of a tenacious virus certainly doesn't help. Utility Southern Company reported Thursday that the "COVID-19 pandemic has impacted productivity levels and pace of…

Shell just did the thing CEO Ben van Beurden said no leader of the company would ever want on their record: cut its shareholder dividend for the first time since the Second World War. In slashing Shell's dividend on Thursday from 47 to 16 cents per share, van…

Residential solar has grown by leaps and bounds in the U.S. over the past two decades, but let's face it: not everyone can have solar on their own roof. As many as three-quarters of American households are unable to access rooftop solar — because they…

Saul Griffith has a PhD in materials science and information theory. He’s co-founded over a dozen companies. And now he’s determined to prove that we already have what it takes to decarbonize the economy. “The reality is I think it's still possible to…

Hitachi Capital is scaling up its financial support for a network of electric vehicle superchargers U.K. in partnership with Gridserve Gridserve’s model is to develop subsidy-free solar-plus-storage plants alongside a network of EV infrastructure. The first…

African Americans are struggling with a disproportionate death toll from COVID-19 and severe financial strain from the economic downturn. This crisis has exposed preexisting racial disparities created by deep-seated social, economic and political factors. …

With no clear end in sight for closures at Tesla's Fremont and Buffalo factories, the company put its financial guidance "on hold" in its first quarter earnings announcement Wednesday, part of a long list of clean energy companies grappling with fallout…

DELHI — India has big ambitions for renewable energy. The rapidly evolving country of nearly 1.4 billion people is in the midst of an energy transition that is key to achieving global decarbonization. But that transition now faces setbacks stemming from the…

The public health crisis of COVID-19 has brought much of the U.S. economy to a halt. While the most visible impacts have been in hotels and restaurants, the advanced energy industry has been hit hard as well. Specific relief that’s needed now can sustain the…

Avangrid, the U.S. utility group and renewables developer, has withdrawn its long-term guidance for the 2018-22 period due to disruptions from the coronavirus pandemic and permitting delays. Avangrid, which is publicly listed but majority owned by Spain's…

Five of Ørsted’s U.S. offshore wind projects totaling nearly 3 gigawatts may face delays due to the coronavirus crisis and slowed permitting, in a blow to U.S. ambitions to animate a thriving offshore wind industry over the next few years. Denmark’s…