Solar Energy

Floating solar projects enable water treatment systems and other facilities to generate renewable energy within their property, without impinging on land needed for other uses.

How Floating Solar Is Carving Out Space In The Renewable Energy Landscape

Floating solar projects enable water treatment systems and other facilities to generate renewable energy within their property, without impinging on land needed for other uses.

ChatGPT generated panoramic image of Two diverging roads: One road lush with greenery, clean air, and renewable energy sources like wind turbines, while the other is cracked, barren, with smoke plumes rising from fossil fuel plants.

Working For Climate Solutions No Longer Requires Career Or Life Compromises

A regular feature of my life is having long-term friends, co-workers, collaborators and even complete strangers reach out to me to ask how they can pivot or start their careers to help with climate change or the environment more generally. Most recently, a recent sciences graduate from Cambridge, Hari Kukreja … [continued]

Coke Green Adds Life

Coca-Cola seems to be a staple of the Australian diet, whether imbibed with fast food or with rum at a family gathering. Now, with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) about to meet its 100% renewable electricity target across its Australian operations by January 2025, we can drink it guilt free. We … [continued]

DALL.E creation by Carolyn Fortuna/ CleanTechnica

American Climate Corps Has Already Put 15,000 Young Americans to Work

During Climate Week, Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces Continued Progress on the American Climate Corps Environmental Protection Agency and AmeriCorps Announce a New Environmental Justice Climate Corps; the Department of Housing and Urban Development Joins the Interagency American Climate Corps Initiative Since taking office, President Biden has delivered on the most ambitious climate, … [continued]

Image from Blue Bird Corporation.

Training 1 Million New Apprentices for Cleantech & Climate Jobs by 2035

The Governors’ Climate-Ready Workforce Initiative was launched this week by the U.S. Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition of 24 governors who together account for roughly 60% of the country’s economy and 55% of its population. The initiative aims to increase career pathways in the clean energy and climate fields, enhance … [continued]

Photo of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island energy sites by Carolyn Fortuna/ CleanTechnica

How Can Communities Help Deploy Clean Energy & Build Up Local Economies?

The global urgency to decarbonize is captured by the rapid growth in new low-carbon infrastructure throughout the energy economy. As power systems around the world rapidly evolve to achieve decarbonization objectives, it is crucial that power system planners and operators use appropriate models and tools to analyze and address the … [continued]

New Berkeley Lab Study Shows 2023 Was Another Big Year for Hybrid Power Plants —…

2023 was another big year for newly installed and proposed hybrid power plants, even with PPA price increases Please join us for a free webinar highlighting key information from the new Berkeley Lab annual report tracking the development of “hybrid” power plants that combine, for example, utility-scale wind and/or solar … [continued]

$17 Million to 23 State & Local Governments for Clean Energy

Grants From the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Will Fund Clean Energy Infrastructure Projects in Communities Ranging from Energy Audits and Studies to EV chargers and Solar-Plus-Storage WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced its latest round of award recipients … [continued]