The Bakken geological formation is located in North Dakota, Montana, and Canada. This oil source has been exploited in North Dakota — one that has seen an expansion due to fracking and horizontal drilling, which took off starting in about 2000. By 2010, hundreds of thousands of barrels of oils … [continued]
Schneider Electric connected over 300 MW of solar power in the UK in March, the company has just announced. The 300 MW of solar is distributed over 20 different sites, and 7 different companies assisted in their construction. Schneider’s technology — in the form of monitoring cabinets, integrated inverters, transformers, switchgears, … [continued]
In northeastern Guangdong, about 10,000 residents of Heyuan (population 2.9 million) protested the development of a new coal plant.
Graciosa Island in the Azores is the site of a megawatt-scale energy storage system in development by Younicos and Leclanche, a Swiss battery manufacturer. A Leclanche battery system utilizing lithium-ion batteries will provide the energy storage and Younicos will handle the energy management. The battery pack will have a 2.8 … [continued]
About 6,000 people were employed by the Iowa wind industry in 2014. Across the US, about 73,000 people worked in the wind industry in the same year, which was an increase of about 23,000 over 2013. Iowa had the second-most wind industry employees in 2014. Texas had even 11,000 more … [continued]
Based in Monrovia, California, CODA Energy makes commercial and industrial energy storage solutions. CEO Paul Detering generously answered some questions for this interview with CleanTechnica. 1. Why did you select lithium-iron phosphate (rather than lithium-ion) batteries? The lithium-ion iron phosphate (LiFePO4) rechargeable battery cells in the CODA Core energy storage system … [continued]
Portuguese group Martifer Solar has connected five solar plants in the UK with a total capacity of 57.8 MW. Four will be developed in the counties of Devon, Essex, Leicestershire, and Cornwall in England, with another set to be developed in South Wales. The projects are expected to offset 25,126 tons of … [continued]
A 231 MW solar power plant will be built in Setouchi City, Japan, in an area that was previously used as a salt field. Trina Solar will supply 116 MW of solar modules for the huge Japanese project, which is expected to be up and running by 2019. “We believe … [continued]
A somewhat “hidden” report was recently released that said France could be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2050 (note that this is for electricity, not all energy). If the report is accurate, obviously it is a huge wakeup call about the potential of renewable energy there. If you aren’t … [continued]
Three new utility-scale solar projects will be installed by SunEdison in southern Utah with a capacity of 210 MW, enough to power about 36,000 homes.
