Eleven Native American communities are planning to implement renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies on tribal lands, thanks to competitively bid acceleration grants from the US Department of Energy. The tribal nations energy grants total nearly $6 million and will combine with community investments of about $7.5 million to activate the … [continued]
By John Perlin I gave a lecture in March at the University of California, San Diego, on the evolution of solar architecture and technology over the millennia, based on my recent book, Let It Shine, starting with the Neolithic Chinese reckoning of the sun’s path throughout the year and how they made use … [continued]
Following up on our latest renewable energy capacity report, below are US electricity generation numbers for December 2014, 2014 as a whole, and 2013. As stated in the title, renewables contributed 13.4% of all US electricity generation in 2014, when I add in a CleanTechnica estimate for rooftop solar (that is, … [continued]
Based on data from FERC and educated “other solar” (essentially rooftop solar) estimates from CleanTechnica, we’ve found that 90% of new electricity generation capacity added in the United States in January 2015 came from renewable energy sources. To be more precise, 90% came from solar and wind energy. The largest source … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Interest in building a 100MW plus solar thermal plant in Western Australia’s Goldfields region has been revived, as more miners turn their interest to solar and other renewables as a means to deflect volatile diesel costs. Two solar developers are considering plans for large scale solar … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. The head of $25 billion Saudi power firm ACWA Power says that the cost of solar technologies are falling so quickly that within a few years the combination of solar PV and solar towers with storage will be able to compete directly with base load fossil … [continued]
Following the relatively recent news that China and the US have agreed to stronger carbon-emissions goals, a Chinese entity by the name of Xiang Yang Institute and a US-based company called Focused Sun have announced that they are partnering to develop solar microgrids in China (and elsewhere). The upside to solar microgrid use … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. This is an update on a previous Solar Love article about the Citizens Own Renewable Energy Network Australia Inc. (CORENA). The organization has a campaign to raise $5 million dollars by having individual citizens make small donations in order to finance the construction of a community … [continued]
Originally published on The Conversation. By John Mathews Mining is the fourth-largest energy consumer in Australia, using roughly 10% of Australia’s total. Some of this comes from the electricity grid — but much is supplied offgrid in the form of diesel and other fossil fuels. Could some of this be … [continued]
Abengoa has reported progress on its third solar power project under South Africa’s ambitious Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement program. The Xina Solar One concentrated solar power project has secured debt financing, the owner and developer of the project, Abengoa, has announced. The project, with a capacity of 100 MW, … [continued]
