EDF Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of EDF Group, has been chosen by Pacific Gas & Electric, the primary utility company serving the northern California community and the San Francisco Bay Area, to provide 40 megawatt-hours of “behind the meter” energy storage for its commercial and industrial customers.
Google has agreed to power purchase agreements with three wind energy companies that will enable it to meet all its needs for electricity from renewable sources within 3 years.
France won’t achieve its goals of reducing the share of its power mix held by nuclear energy to 50%, down from 75%, until the 2030–2035 timeframe (rather than by the 2025 target), the country’s environment minister Nicolas Hulot has revealed.
The cost of solar PV has hit a stunning new low – with a bid for a 300MW solar project in Saudi Arabia pitched at just $US1.79c/kWh – or $US17.9/MWh ($A22.7/MWh) – with no subsidies. This offer represents a significant fall of 75 per cent in costs below those considered “not credible” less than two years ago.
A new partnership between electric vehicle charging solution provider eMotorWerks and electric utility EDF taps into eMotorWerks’ intelligent network of chargers to enable grid-scale demand management.
Oil and gas wells aren’t the first places that come to mind when you think of cleantech. Fossil fuels still present an inherent challenge for the planet. But even as it’s working to accelerate the wind and solar revolution, one environmental organization has surfaced a crucial opportunity to protect the climate by reducing millions of tons of methane — a potent greenhouse gas — leaking from the oil and gas supply chain.
EDF Renewable Energy has this week announced its acquisition of the 179 MW Switch Station 1 and 2 solar projects from First Solar in late-June, a move which brings the US company closer to 10 GW worth of renewable energy projects in operation or development across North America.
EDF Energies Nouvelles will work with Masdar Group on the 800 megawatt phase 3 of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in the United Arab Emirates.
EDF Renewable Energy has commissioned a new business unit focused on Distributed Electricity and Storage that will focus on distributed solar and storage projects up to 30 MW in size.
At 9:40 am (local time) on Thursday there was an explosion at EDF’s Flamanville nuclear power plant in northern France.
