Wind Power & Hydropower Race To Crush Coal For COVID-19 Recovery
With or without solar, wind power and hydropower are racing to crush coal for electricity generation as the COVID-19 recovery takes shape.
With or without solar, wind power and hydropower are racing to crush coal for electricity generation as the COVID-19 recovery takes shape.
Facebook’s $1 billion data center in Los Lunas in New Mexico will benefit from an additional 100 megawatts (MW) of new solar capacity after approval was granted for the construction of two 50 MW solar farms, ensuring that the data center is served with 100% renewable electricity.
After conducting a routine assessment of future power supply scenarios, the utility made an anything-but-routine conclusion: the best version of its future self, PNM declared, was entirely coal-free.
New Mexico’s PNM ditches coal with a message for Trump: “Our number-one responsibility is to act in the best interests of our customers…”
A widening chasm between what customers want and what Santa Fe’s electric utility delivers is bolstering a campaign to rejigger power production and distribution, possibly putting the city itself in charge.
It’s Earth Day, which many green bloggers hate, since spending just 1 day thinking about how to preserve human livability on this small planet simply doesn’t cut it. On the flip side, it is an opportunity to make more people aware of the benefits of solar energy, electric vehicles, bicycling, and … [continued]