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The energy storage market in the United States is booming, with 476 megawatts (MW) of new projects installed in the third quarter of 2020 alone, up 240 percent over the second quarter, according to industry analysts at Wood MacKenzie. 2021 is expected to be…

Clean technology venture capital investment strategies for the next decade will look much different than those of the past two decades.  In the first wave of venture green technology investing, firms sunk billions of dollars into companies whose success…

The Moorburg coal power station boasts an eventful inception, a landmark closure and now, a bright future. It was opened in 2015 by Swedish utility Vattenfall on the banks of the Elbe river, just outside the German port city of Hamburg. Its planning and…

It was hard to keep up with the destruction of the Trump era. And it’s already getting hard to keep up with the rebuilding.  This week brought a series of actions on climate change from the White House that are building a framework for the climate…

General Motors plans to achieve companywide carbon neutrality by 2040 and sell only carbon emissions-free light-duty vehicles by 2035, a major step by America’s biggest automaker to align its future with the climate change imperatives of the international…

The policies that govern U.S. transmission grid planning and investment can’t support the country’s need for an unprecedented expansion of clean energy. Federal regulators need to declare the current paradigm “unjust and unreasonable,” and implement a…

What technology will become the dominant means of decarbonizing each part of the economy? The pattern we see now — and that we expect to continue over the coming couple decades — is a series of battles between consistent contenders: electricity, hydrogen…

U.K. residential energy aggregator Social Energy is planning international expansion after gaining multimillion-dollar backing from U.S. alternative investment manager CarVal Investors.  The parties have not disclosed the amount involved beyond saying it…

In a Wednesday Senate hearing, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm echoed previous commitments to create clean energy jobs and focus on U.S.-made equipment if confirmed as U.S. Energy Secretary. Beyond helping carry out President Biden’s target of…

President Joe Biden signed a sprawling set of executive orders on Wednesday ordering federal agencies to procure carbon-free energy and electric vehicles, spur commercialization of clean energy technologies, accelerate clean energy generation and transmission…

Solar has won the bulk of capacity on offer in Spain’s latest renewable energy auction. But onshore wind bids have surprised analysts by coming to within a hair’s breadth of the average price for PV. The Spanish tender — the first since 2017 — this…

Clean energy entrepreneurs sometimes bemoan Silicon Valley's preference for funding software startups instead of the tough tech needed to tackle problems like climate change and crumbling infrastructure. But sometimes software really does the trick. Amrit…

Last week, New York utility Con Edison launched its latest effort to smooth the way for customers to install rooftop solar — and to feed the utility's growing hunger for data on how that solar can be integrated into its grid.  The tool it’s using, built…

In the space of just a few days, two separate projects have brought the promise of offshore floating solar a step closer to commercial reality. First, the oil and gas major Equinor announced its involvement in an offshore floating solar trial with Moss…

Most of the biggest U.S. utilities have promised to eliminate their carbon emissions by midcentury. New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to…

EU countries generated more electricity from renewables than from coal and gas for the first time in 2020, according to a report released Monday.  But despite the progress, much work is left to do if lofty new climate targets are to be met. Coal power slumped…

Now that President Joe Biden has assumed office, he can get to work on his pledge to move the nation to 100 percent clean energy. During the campaign, Biden advocated a 100 percent clean energy standard pegged to 2035. This builds on state-level "renewable…

Smart home electrical panel, meet voice-activated home controls.  That’s the connection being made by San Francisco-based startup Span.IO with its Tuesday announcement of a $20 million investment, led by Munich Re Ventures’ HSB Fund and joined…

First Solar will pass 10 gigawatts of in-development projects to wind developer Leeward Renewable Energy, the companies announced Monday, as the solar manufacturer continues to overhaul its business. The sale accounts for a majority of First Solar’s project…

The Biden-Harris administration and the Democratic majority in Congress have an important backer in their quest to achieve an ambitious climate agenda — corporate America and its increasing hunger for carbon-free energy.  On Monday, a notable subset of the…