Climate Change Comes To American Heartland
Floods are devastating large parts of the Midwest, due in part to changes in local weather patterns created by a warming planet, yet many still do not understand the distinction between weather and climate.
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Facebook & Adobe Sign PPAs For Electricity From Enel’s 320 Megawatt Rattlesnake Creek Wind Farm
Enel Green Power North America announced on Monday that it had signed two Power Purchase Agreements with Facebook and Adobe for the electricity generated from its soon-to-be-completed 320 megawatt Rattlesnake Creek wind farm in Nebraska.
Tesla Guerrilla War On Franchise Dealers Shifts To Wisconsin & Nebraska
Bills have been introduced in the legislatures of Wisconsin and Nebraska that would carve out an exception so Tesla could sell its electric cars direct to the public. Franchise dealer groups, predictably, are vehemently opposed to such foolishness.
Facebook Revives Zombie Wind Power Project In Nebraska
The Trump administration pitches coal, but Nebraska catches wind power fever with a new 320-megawatt wind farm for a new Facebook data center.
Another One Bites The Dust: Cost Of Wind Power Cancels Kansas Coal Facility Expansion
The plunging cost of wind power has forced the cancellation of a long planned expansion to the coal power generating facility in Holcomb, Kansas.
sonnen — the utility of the future? (CleanTechnica Interview)
Highly regarded battery storage firm sonnen was one of the big winners of the 2017 Zayed Future Energy Prize, winning in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) category. I interviewed sonnen CEO and co-founder Christoph Ostermann in January just after the company won the prize. It was a fun interview because of how futuristic sonnen’s vision is and also because of Mr Ostermann’s clear propensity for fun.
Plunger-Protected Bike Lanes #Winning
In many cities, concern for bicycle infrastructure is improving. (That’s in spite of distressing political moves to eliminate healthful, people-friendly, air-friendly transportation options such as bicycling.) In other cities, it is more difficult to change those settings due to to the car-centric mindset of the residents and policymakers there. However, promoting change with inexpensive, innovative barriers has helped a few cities to shift toward two-wheeled, pedal-powered transport. Here are two examples of such an approach, followed by an explanation:
US Wind Industry Added 520 MW In First Quarter, AWEA
The US wind industry added 520 MW in the first quarter of 2016, its most productive first quarter since 2012, with another 2 GW in construction. This brings the country’s total capacity in construction to 10,100 MW, according to the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) US Wind Industry First Quarter 2016 … [continued]
Keystone XL Bill Passes Senate
The bitterly controversial Keystone XL pipeline bill has just come one step closer to becoming law. The Republican-led US Senate passed an $8 billion bill an hour ago (Thursday afternoon, January 29) to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. As you may know, CleanTechnica has been covering this story … [continued]
The New Renewables Are Recycled Energy Technologies
Recycled energy technologies covert waste heat, which would be vented into the atmosphere, into electricity, and reduce emissions.
