Sheep Will Frolic In Massive New Solar Power Plant In Texas
The energy firm Enel has just commissioned its largest solar power plant in the US, where sheep will serve as vegetation managers and soil enhancers.
The energy firm Enel has just commissioned its largest solar power plant in the US, where sheep will serve as vegetation managers and soil enhancers (cropped, courtesy of Enel).
The energy firm Enel has just commissioned its largest solar power plant in the US, where sheep will serve as vegetation managers and soil enhancers.
Partisan politics and federal energy policy aside, the red state of Texas is still fertile territory for new solar power plants as high-level electricity consumers demand more kilowatts, more quickly (cropped, courtesy of ENGIE)
Partisan politics and federal energy policy aside, the red state of Texas is still fertile territory for new solar power plants as high-level electricity consumers demand more kilowatts, more quickly.
The model for the electricity business in the United States is a monopoly that gives one company exclusive rights to distribute electricity in a given geographic area. For historical reasons, that model makes a lot of sense. Imagine if five electricity suppliers were putting up poles and stringing wires in … [continued]
Since 2021, electricity demand within the Texas electricity grid operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has steadily increased. In the first nine months of 2025, electricity demand in ERCOT, which manages about 90% of the state’s load, reached a record high compared with the same period in … [continued]
The Texas startup Janta aims to bring its solar power towers to commercial facilities, industrial sites, apartment buildings, and homes.
A new all-in-one green hydrogen production system, developed by the US startup SunHydrogen in partnership with the University of Iowa, will get its first multi-panel tryout at the Hydrogen ProtoHub in Texas.
The global firm ENGIE is joining its renewable energy portfolio in Texas with the next-generation data center startup Prometheus Hyperscale (courtesy of ENGIE)
The global firm ENGIE is joining its renewable energy portfolio in Texas with the next-generation data center startup Prometheus Hyperscale.
Former CleanTechnica contributor Gavin Newsom (now Governor of California) and former “overly bipartisan” President of the United States Barack Obama are tired of the nonsense and done with the extreme, unprecedented attacks on our political norms and democratic principles. Rather than responding to ridiculous distortions of our political system with … [continued]
Waymo continues to expand into more cities — quite rapidly these days. The Google spinoff that has been working on self-driving technology for a decade and a half took a long time to go beyond Phoenix, and a long time to go beyond Phoenix and the San Francisco Bay Area, … [continued]
Tesla this week has signed two major long tern contracts, one with LGES for LFP batteries, the other with Samsung for advanced chips.