Recently, we have seen a spate of older nuclear reactors shut down by their owners for economic reasons. One of the first bellwethers of this trend was the Kewaunee power plant closure. While the public at large may not be aware, nuclear power plant owners are aware of the increasing … [continued]
Vestas is so excited about its new multi-rotor wind turbine that it announces successful test on Facebook, couldn’t wait for the press release.
Google has announced that it has purchased 236 MW of renewable energy from two new wind farms set to be constructed in Norway and Sweden. Announced on its Green Blog late-June, Google’s Marc Oman, EU Energy Lead, Google Global Infrastructure, announced that the company was continuing to work towards ensuring all … [continued]
Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has announced that its multi-rotor concept wind turbine has generated its first kWh. Earlier this year Vestas announced that it was installing a multi-rotor concept wind turbine at the Risø test site near Roskilde, Denmark. On Monday, on its Facebook page, Vestas announced that the multi-rotor concept … [continued]
EIA continues to project conservative renewable growth. The authoritatively viewed administration just can’t seem to get it right. It continues the confusion of policy-based growth, assuming renewables growth lags once subsidies end (after 2020). The EIA just doesn’t seem to get that the market is dynamic and interactive. Its approach is too static, and … [continued]
A previous CleanTechnica article reviewed the basics of power generation. That article is a good primer for this follow-up article delving deeper into the subject. How do we most efficiently integrate the maximum amount of renewables into the grid? Let’s start with understanding how things work. As first-order simplification, we … [continued]
Originally published on Renewables International. By Katharina Wolf and Craig Morris Often talked about, rarely quantified – how much more revenue does a community-owned wind farm bring in for the community, as opposed to a project by out-of-towners? A study conducted by the Institute for Distributed Energy Technologies (IdE) on … [continued]
Even at current market prices, various different energy storage options make economic sense for renewable energy projects in some locations, according to new research from MIT. The energy storage options profiled by the study included: battery systems, pumped hydroelectric storage, and compressed air energy storage, amongst others. While these options … [continued]
The Pathway to 2050 event will be held August 11, bringing together advanced energy business leaders and policy-makers to support advanced energy growth.
Jobs, jobs, jobs — this is what people want. Or a “better economy” — so they can make more money and buy more things, maybe even a Tesla or a Twizy. So this is what political campaign after political campaign focuses on. The stupid thing about it, though, is that some of … [continued]
