A comparison of how well policies in nearby states support distributed energy, including rooftop and community solar, provides insights into which states are regional leaders and where cross-pollination of state policy ideas that support local energy might improve areas that lag behind.
Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems A/S reclaimed the number 1 spot atop the global wind turbine manufacturing pile in 2018, news announced at the same time as the company finished 2019’s first quarter with a flurry of turbine order announcements worth 1,380 megawatts and including two subsidy-free projects.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has made clean energy research and development (R&D) investments in every U.S. state over the past two years, sending more than $1.8 billion to the national laboratories and to hundreds of private-sector and academic researchers last year alone. Unfortunately, the Trump administration recently unveiled a proposal to slash the Energy Department’s budget next year. If enacted, this would have devastating impacts on American innovation.
Germany’s Federal Network Agency finally announced the winners last week of its first special tender for large-scale solar PV that was held in early March, in which 121 contracts were awarded totaling 505 megawatts (MW) of capacity at an average price of €0.065 per kilowatt-hour (kWh).
Who says the Earth can’t take much more pumped hydro energy storage? A new study reveals up to 530,000 new sites for potential pumped hydro development.
President Tromp paid a surprise visit to CleanTechnica world headquarters over the weekend to share his plans for a zero emissions future with us. What he had to say came as a complete surprise.
Lyft and Uber are happy to provide ride hailing services in densely populated areas but what about for people who live a few miles out of town? Suddenly, they are a lot less interested in servicing those customers.
One of the great things about visiting new places as a journalist is you get to look differently at what you see. The Geneva Motor Show is different because I don’t just look at what triggers my fancy. I look for what is there to write about for CleanTechnica readers. Without that purpose, I probably would not have visited the show at all.
On April 6, 2019, the UK’s very first electric vehicle rally is taking place. It is named the Electrohead Rally, starting out from London at 10:30 in the morning and travelling via Oxford and the Cotswolds to the Celtic Manor, a luxury five-star hotel near Newport in South Wales.
The end of fossil fuel: new Hostile Planet series enlists acclaimed storytellers to speak for some of the most climate-vulnerable creatures on earth.
