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Last summer a record-setting heat wave in California caused rolling blackouts throughout the state. This week, a record-setting freeze knocked out power for millions of people in Texas and the Midwest. It’s too early for a post-mortem on what happened, but…

Amid a historic economic contraction, renewable resources grew to account for a fifth of electricity produced in 2020, according to newly released data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, a coalition of clean…

Wind turbine market leader Vestas has revealed the first investment made by its venture fund with a stake in Swedish wooden wind tower start-up Modvion. Modvion builds wind towers from sections of specially prepared wood laminate panels. As well as being…

If the U.S. converts to a carbon-free grid, millions of homeowners may wish to generate and store their own solar power. Companies are already jockeying over that potentially massive market — and the commercial contest revolves around safety. Tesla and…

A port and fabrication yard in Scotland is planning to convert to green hydrogen as it looks to serve the carbon-conscience offshore wind sector. Global Energy Group’s (GEG) Nigg Energy Park has a storied history serving the oil and gas sector. But now…

The Texas energy system is having a wintry moment of reckoning.  The past 48 hours of record cold temperatures have forced much of the state’s thermal generation fleet offline, and forced grid operator ERCOT to institute widespread blackouts to prevent…

Cathy Zoi, CEO of EVgo, pays a lot of attention to the economics of public electric vehicle charging, both in terms of the widely varying up-front costs from location to location, and the long-term calculations that go into making sure their revenues exceed…

Spain’s booming renewable energy market is attracting the attention of an unlikely retail segment: mobile phone companies. Phone firms including national leader Telefónica are jostling to offer clean energy alongside more traditional products such as…

Unprecedented winter storms have hit Texas so hard and forced so many power plants offline that rolling grid outages that began Sunday night have grown into hours-long blackouts leaving about 2.5 million customers without power on Monday morning. Until those…

Richard Glick has a long list of priorities for his chairmanship of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He has already outlined many of them, such as reforming energy market policies that restrict state-supported clean energy resources, expanding…

The economic, environmental, and public health challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis in 2020 continue unabated as we usher in a new presidential Administration. And yet, utilities across the United States are expecting to spend…

The nuclear industry is betting on small modular reactors (SMRs) to regain its competitive edge in markets such as the U.S. and Canada. Proponents say the reactors can be built cheaply once multiple units start being ordered and can even lead to lucrative…

This week: climate change is certainly the most urgent issue we face. But should it be formally declared an emergency?  There’s a real conversation over the label in the US -- and it could have a very real impact on what the president can do. This has been…

Wood Mackenzie acquired Greentech Media in 2016 and in 2019 integrated the GTM research practice into our ever-expanding Power and Renewables research team. Since then we have continued to use greentechmedia.com and GTM Squared as vehicles to present green…

Dawn Lippert’s gained national prominence with a growing list of top hits — in her case, a roster of successful clean energy startups. And like the famous Grammy winner, Lippert’s roots are in Hawaii. As the Founder and CEO of the Hawaii- and…

In the last few years the big three western wind turbine makers have taken bold steps to get competitive across wind’s three-legged stool of revenue; onshore, offshore and services. After acquisitions, reshuffles and some raising of the stakes on the…

Battery plants have established themselves in the sunny Southwest, but this week was the first time they won big in New England. San Francisco-based developer Plus Power won two bids in the latest capacity auction held by the New England ISO, which operates…

Bloom Energy reported record fourth quarter and annual revenues on Wednesday and upped its target to reach profitability to 2021, a year ahead of schedule. A fourth-quarter sales surge brought annual fuel cell deliveries to 132.6 megawatts, while an effort to…

Climate change has gone macro -- as in macroeconomics. It’s not just an environmental, health and justice issue. It has become an economic imperative for financial analysts, finance ministers and the biggest asset managers in the world. For the second year…

John Carrington is CEO and director of Stem * * *  Fewer than 100 days into his administration, President Biden's sense of urgency in tackling climate issues and driving a clean energy revolution is clear.  Here is a look at how key recent trends in energy…