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States’ responses to coronavirus have already driven a shift in demand profiles, and new Genscape data from the Midwest and Northeast shows the extent of the transformation. The first noticeable impact of COVID-19 in Midcontinent Independent System…

“Nobody knows anything.” Screenwriter William Goldman’s observation about the impossibility of predicting the success or failure of a movie is an apt way to describe COVID-19’s impacts on the global solar industry. During a March webinar, the CEOs of…

Global electric vehicle sales look set to crash this year, and coronavirus won’t be the only culprit. Total EV sales will plunge 43 percent in 2020, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. The 2020s are the decade in which EVs are expected to move…

A fiery summer has left Australian power firms pleading with regulators to do something anathema to most utilities: kick their customers off the grid. Companies within the country’s National Electricity Market (NEM), which covers the south and east of…

California officials expect the state needs 1 gigawatt of new long-duration energy storage by 2026 to advance its clean energy transition. That figure emerged in the “reference system portfolio” that the California Public Utilities Commission approved…

The coronavirus pandemic will depress U.S. electricity markets and hurt generators in 2020, the U.S. Energy Information Administration says — even the fast-growing wind and solar power sectors.  On Tuesday, the EIA revised its forecast for the U.S.…

North American power markets are in uncharted territory. Wood Mackenzie projects significant pullbacks in the larger North American economy and corresponding impacts to demand for power. WoodMac's current baseline view of the economy forecasts a sharp…

As the coronavirus pandemic forces people across the country to shelter at home, utilities and grid operators are watching typical energy use patterns change in unpredictable ways, and trying to understand how this will affect their grid operations, power…

Vestas, the world's leading supplier of wind turbines, canceled its 2020 financial guidance on Tuesday, saying the coronavirus pandemic is driving too much uncertainty to produce reliable numbers. The first quarter of 2020 played out more or less to…

After a decade of dramatic ups and downs, 2020 was supposed to be a climax year for U.S. wind farm construction. Instead, with the coronavirus pandemic rattling supply chains and thinning workforces, things could get messy for an industry that should be taking…

Rooftop solar market leader Sunrun withdrew its 2020 financial forecast Monday and announced cost cutting measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic. In February, Sunrun told investors that it expected to grow its installations 15 percent in 2020, from…

Cement kilns, furnaces, and boilers can’t compete with electric vehicles, wind turbines, and batteries in stirring the public’s imagination. But industrial emissions are too important to overlook. Industry — think makers of iron, concrete and…

The COP26 climate talks scheduled for Scotland this November will not take place due to the coronavirus. But like the talks themselves, Europe's aggressive push to reduce its carbon emissions has been merely postponed, not canceled.  Despite the vast…

The coronavirus has halted many forms of commerce, but it poses particular risk for rooftop solar. This is a product that, until a few weeks ago, relied on face-to-face contact for most transactions. Now such interaction is banned as a public health…

A contender for the largest solar plant in the U.S. is still waiting for a key permit after a federal agency missed its March issuing deadline.  The Gemini Solar Project, a 690-megawatt array Arevia Power is developing in Nevada, needs a Bureau of Land…

As battery prices continue to fall and the penetration of variable wind and solar generation rises, power plant developers are increasingly combining wind and solar projects with on-site batteries, creating “hybrid” power plants. The variability of wind…

This week: The coronavirus shockwave brings staggering losses of lives, jobs, and money. So many people applied for unemployment last week – 5 times more than ever before – that it was hard for graphic artists to draw a Y-axis that would fit them in…

Feeling a bit stir crazy? Us too.  We were looking for a way to close the social distance this week, so Interchange co-hosts Stephen Lacey and Shayle Kann hopped behind the microphone with Chris Nelder, host of The Energy Transition Show for some wonkery…

A 5-gigawatt hit to utility-scale solar in the United States could be on the horizon due to the coronavirus pandemic.  The coronavirus' impact on the utility-scale solar industry could play out a few different ways, according to a new Wood Mackenzie…

California grid operator CAISO has been curtailing renewable energy at record levels this year, as the state’s ever-rising share of solar power during daylight hours increasingly outpaces electricity demand. Adding to its challenges, the grid operator is…