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How can U.S. transmission grids and wholesale energy markets adapt to the gigawatts of energy storage coming online over the next decade?  Over the next decade, the scale of batteries serving U.S. power grids is set to explode, from about 1.5 gigawatts…

Community choice aggregators (CCAs) have become a formidable player in California’s electricity markets — taking over the role of supplying electricity to millions of customers from the state's investor-owned utilities, announcing big-time clean energy…

The world’s hydropower developers want a seat at the green recovery funding table alongside other key decarbonization technologies like wind, solar, batteries and green hydrogen.   This month, the International Hydropower Association (IHA) partnered with…

The promise of a hydrogen economy to replace fossil fuels is commonly centered on the potential for ‘green hydrogen,’ generated via electrolysis of water with carbon-free electricity. But the vast majority of today’s industrial hydrogen production is…

A spate of bills making their way through the Republican-controlled Arizona legislature — some on a fast track — could undercut 100 percent clean energy targets the state’s utility regulators are soon expected to finalize. The four bills come just as…

RWE and a BP/EnBW consortium were the two biggest winners in the latest round of auctions to lease the rights to develop offshore wind farms off the U.K. coast.  The results, announced Monday morning, revealed the “preferred bidder” status for enough…

California regulators are on the cusp of breaking open a long-awaited opportunity to enlist rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries and other distributed energy resources (DERs) to substitute for expensive grid upgrades.  It’s called the “Partnership…

Energy storage startup Powin Energy has raised more than $100 million in equity investment to compete with better-funded rivals in the large-scale grid battery market. Powin buys battery cells and hooks them up with proprietary software controls and…

Net-zero carbon pledges are becoming common for utilities. But a huge number of them are failing to decarbonize on any timeframe that truly matters. They’re not phasing out coal, they’re building lots of new gas plants, and they’re not building enough…

Green hydrogen is set to play a substantive role in the overall energy mix with its development likely to happen faster than anyone predicts, according to a new report by Wood Mackenzie. The 2050: The Hydrogen Possibility report details how the project…

Cutting U.S. carbon emissions to zero by mid-century will require trillions of dollars of investment, and disrupt entire sectors of the economy reliant on fossil fuels. But that doesn’t mean that states most reliant on fossil fuel extraction or industries…

In normal times, selling solar is relatively old-school. Branded vans cruise neighborhoods, unloading employees who knock on dozens of doors. When they’re lucky enough to find a sympathetic ear, many sellers step into a customer’s home, ready to sign the…

Solar scaled first to become king in residential smart energy. But as other residential DER tech has advanced -- EVs, batteries, smart panels, and so forth -- has solar been dethroned as the anchor product in this space?  We’ll walk with Arch Rao, the CEO…

U.K. oil major BP doesn’t expect substantial income from its low carbon business this side of 2025, according to CFO Murray Auchincloss. Speaking on the company’s full-year results call with analysts on Tuesday, Auchincloss said the company was still not…

Last March, lockdowns swept across Europe, forcing an eerie silence on some of the world’s most iconic and bustling cities. It caused a steep drop in electricity consumption — putting pressure on thermal generators and giving renewables a greater share of…

More than a decade after its first introduction, a national green bank bill is back before Congress, with much more funding than previous versions proposed over the past two years, and a far greater chance to be passed into law, its backers say.  On…

Justin Guay is director for global climate strategy at the Sunrise Project. * * * The only climate trend more powerful for global financial institutions than the drive to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 is the momentum to exit oil and gas. According to…

The threat of power grid-sparked wildfires is forcing California utilities to invest billions of dollars in hardening and monitoring their grids, and to institute grid blackouts affecting tens to hundreds of thousands of customers to reduce the risk of live…

Analysts have been left dumbfounded after China last month released official 2020 wind and solar installation figures that were seemingly too big to be true.  The Chinese National Energy Administration (NEA) “stunned the world,” according to Wood…

Interstate grid operator Southwest Power Pool has expanded its wholesale energy market, the latest step in a series of nationwide moves aimed at bringing more efficiency to parts of the country rich in renewable energy potential, but lacking in the energy…