The energy system of Hughes, Alaska, pictured, will benefit from advanced microgrid controls, system optimization, and reduced energy costs with support from a previously funded project through the Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership (C-MAP). Photo from Tanana Chiefs Conference.
The National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) is launching a new funding opportunity through the Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership (C‑MAP), with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE). This latest solicitation offers up to $2.5 million in direct project funding supported by $1 million in technical … [continued]
In our most recent Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we forecast that annual electric power generation from utility-scale solar will surpass that from coal for the first time in 2026 within the electricity grid that covers most of Texas. Solar generation is expected to reach 78 billion kilowatthours (BkWh) in 2026 in the … [continued]
The Australian government subsidises diesel from primary producers to the tune of AU$11 billion per year. Dr Andrew Forrest of Fortescue Metals has come out swinging, saying that the 18 largest miners receive about one third of this, and don’t need it.As Fortescue heads to real zero, Forrest wants a … [continued]
In this episode of Cleantech Talk, Scott Cooney talks with Britt Zwierzchowski Tisler, COO of the Conservative Energy Network, and Bradley Pischea, National Director of Land & Liberty Coalition (L&LC), a project of CEN. They discuss: Who the Conservative Energy Network is, why they came to the clean energy space. … [continued]
A vast and well-organized campaign is actively underway to suspend global wind energy discourse. The Financial Times calls it the US president’s “crusade against renewable energy.” WindEurope, who describe themselves as “the voice of the wind energy industry,” say attacks on wind power pose a “systemic risk to Europe’s security.” … [continued]
Chatgpt generated image of energy models weighing imagined centralized futures against real-world electrification and grid flexibility.
An Energy Research & Social Science paper crossed my screen recently that put structure around something visible to anyone who has compared nuclear forecasts with build rates. Nuclear power has been projected to grow faster, cheaper and more broadly than it actually has, not once or twice, but across decades, … [continued]
Canada’s federal government has finally put electricity where it belongs: at the centre of the national economy. That is the most important thing about Mark Carney’s newly announced National Electricity Strategy. This is not just a climate file. It is an industrial strategy, an affordability strategy, a trade strategy, a … [continued]
Civil society and industry are calling for a bold binding framework that delivers a fossil fuel exit. Dear President von der Leyen, Dear President Costa, Dear President Metsola, Europe faces an increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape. Russia’s war against Ukraine and rising tensions in the Middle East have exposed the risks … [continued]
Yesterday, we celebrated Mothers’ Day — and, no, the apostrophe is correct in the plural rather than singular designation. That’s because it was the entire community of women, not just individual moms, who were originally celebrated in the 1870s by Julia Ward Howe. Howe cried out for women to take … [continued]
New Jersey is among the US states pursuing dual-use solar power (aka agrivoltaics) to help farmers keep farming while adding a reliable new source of revenue to their property (courtesy of NREL).
For farmers, renewable energy can be the difference between making a living and selling land that has been in the family for generations.
