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Shell has become the second of oil’s supermajors to set a net-zero ambition by 2050. An expanded power business will make the biggest contribution to the shift with renewables investment also looking set for a major role. The Dutch firm will include the…

The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources unveiled emergency revisions this week that double the capacity of a state incentive program designed to spur small- and medium-scale solar projects. Under new regulations effective April 15, the Solar…

Netflix and a few other "stay-at-home" stocks are riding high as markets have slumped in response to the coronavirus pandemic. In the U.S. solar industry, interest in subscription services may provide a much-needed anchor as well. While often overshadowed…

Europe is sinking billions of dollars into research in an attempt to overturn Asia’s dominance of the battery market, but analysts believe it could be in vain. Along with various national initiatives, the European Union has put half a billion euros ($550…

“Infrastructure” can be a very misleading word. Washington politicians use it as an end in itself, an accomplishment related to creating construction jobs. But a better description of that activity is “public investment.” Public Investment implies that…

What happens to an office building’s electricity demand when almost everyone who works there is stuck at home?  The coronavirus pandemic has forced broad swaths of the economy to shut down, as state after state forced non-essential businesses to close. The…

Spanish utility group Iberdrola wants to be the biggest player in the U.S. offshore wind market, but it will need to go through early market frontrunner Ørsted to get there. Iberdrola, among the world's largest wind power generators, plans to streamroll its…

The path to a fully decarbonized energy system in Europe could depend on technologies that are out of bounds in today’s market, a consultancy forecast suggests. The major decarbonization pathways modelled by Afry (formerly AF Pöyry), an international…

Last year, we covered a pilot project from California community energy provider Silicon Valley Clean Energy and startup UtilityAPI, meant to make sharing smart meter data between customers and approved third-party companies as easy as a few clicks of a…

With every state in America under a disaster declaration, the implosion for early-stage companies has been swift. According to a New York Times analysis, 6,000 people at 50 startups have lost their jobs since the middle of March.  Once fast-growing companies…

Big things are happening in California this week. In the political sphere, Gov. Gavin Newsom is invoking the powers of a “nation-state” to provide life-saving medical supplies that the federal government isn’t. In the power sector, another 100 megawatt…

New York has closed all non-essential businesses to battle the country’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, and the resulting effects on electricity demand are becoming starkly apparent.  State grid operator NYISO released data Thursday showing…

As more U.S. transit agencies take their first steps toward electrification, an ecosystem of companies is bursting to life to help them with that transition. But with such novelty, it can be hard to find field data on the difference it makes to hire a…

For years, the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been working on technologies that could turn distributed energy resources (DERs) — specifically, smart solar inverters and batteries — into tools for keeping the grid…

The world is experiencing a sudden, dramatic drop in all kinds of air pollution. The skies are dramatically different. People can hear birds they didn’t even know were there, and see landscapes that have been shrouded for decades. It’s saved thousands of…

Lightsource BP, the U.K.-based solar developer backed by BP, secured a power-purchase agreement for a 132-megawatt solar project in Arkansas that would nearly double the state’s utility-scale capacity, currently at 147 megawatts. Municipal utility Conway…

Wood Mackenzie slashed more than 20 gigawatts off its forecast for global solar deployments in 2020, as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic comes into sharper focus. Construction is slowing, tenders are postponed and, for earlier stage projects, there are…

It’s been a tough few years — a tough decade, really — for big U.S. transmission projects seeking to carry wind and solar power from where it’s most cost-effectively generated to where it’s needed the most. Major infrastructure projects are…

The coronavirus outbreak continues to loom large over the world. Across the globe, countries face major challenges as consumer demand contracts, employee payroll is cut, and capital shrinks as billions of people remain in quarantine.  The combination of an…

The pipeline of electrolyzer projects destined to produce hydrogen from renewable energy has grown by 256 percent in five months, according to Wood Mackenzie. The analyst firm was forced to update green hydrogen figures released in a report last October…