Although American GDP might be doing reasonably well, many of us non-economists have a tendency to look at our personal costs of living as more indicative of how the economy is doing. Inflation, the cost of food, electricity, housing, if people are losing or retaining their jobs, and so on. … [continued]
When US President Trump declared a national energy emergency, renewable energy quickly rose to the occasion (coal, not so much).
Offshore wind workers are caught in the middle of a political whirlwind. President Donald J. Trump’s pummeling on the offshore wind industry could undermine millions of dollars that have been invested to construct docks, terminals, and training programs. The uncertain status of the industry has offshore wind workers quite concerned. What … [continued]
A radically different type of wind turbine deploys small, mass-produced components to pare capital costs to the bone while squeezing more clean kilowatts out of less space.
I recently sat down with Kris Ohleth, Director of the Special Initiative on Offshore Wind, to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and progress in the US offshore wind market. It was a great and fascinating discussion of the US offshore wind industry, what it’s been going through in the paste decade … [continued]
The cleantech revolution continues on — every … single … day. It seems like such a short time that we’ve gone from the huge milestone of solar and wind power providing more than 50% of new power capacity additions in the US to solar and wind power now providing almost … [continued]
Renewable energy resources are kicking gas power plants to the curb in the US, with solar capacity additions leading the way over the next three years.
We expect 63 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity to be added to the U.S. power grid in 2025 in our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory report. This amount represents an almost 30% increase from 2024 when 48.6 GW of capacity was installed, the largest capacity installation in a single … [continued]
Solar energy stakeholders in the US are looking at another record-breaking year in 2025, according to a new report from the US Energy Information Administration.
The modern US wind industry deploys many different kinds of wind turbines, none of which are anything like the windmills of olden days.
