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PG&E’s Plan to Mitigate Blackouts This Wildfire Season: Lots More Diesel Generators

Pacific Gas & Electric is turning to a decidedly low-tech solution to keep its customers’ lights on for this year’s coming fire season: mobile diesel generators. The bankrupt utility is struggling to secure its grid from causing more deadly wildfires and has been stymied in attempts to set up natural-gas-backed microgrids to power substations...

21 May

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HEVO to Launch US Manufacturing for Wireless Electric Vehicle Charger

Wireless electric vehicle charging carries a whiff of the future, akin to flying cars. But HEVO, a Brooklyn-based startup, aims to make it part of the present by emerging from obscurity with a commercially ready wireless charger this year. The company has designed a ground-mounted pad that beams electricity...

21 May

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Why Innovation Is the Key to Accelerating Battery Storage Growth

By any measure, 2019 was a breakout year for energy storage in the U.S. Fueled by improved economics, growing demand for resilience, and the ever-increasing integration of intermittent renewable generation, energy storage installations hit an all-time high of 522 megawatts/1,113 megawatt-hours last year. Though coronavirus-related supply...

21 May

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Marine Sector Turns to Ammonia to Decarbonize Shipping

The shipping industry is charting a new route toward cutting fossil fuel use in ocean-going vessels: ammonia. To date, no ammonia-fueled ships have been built, but that’s not stopping companies including Equinor, Man Energy Solutions and Wärtsilä from rushing to help bring ammonia-fueled ships to market. Moves...

21 May

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SunShare adds 4.5 MW of community solar to Minnesota energy market

SunShare completed three new solar gardens in Scott County, Minnesota that are now providing 4.5 MW of renewable energy to more than 800 households in and the county. These systems mark SunShare’s 80th megawatt of Minnesota community solar and deliver approximately 11% on subscriber’s electricity...

21 May

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Covid-19 impact: Acme Solar abandons India’s record-low PV tariff project

The developer has decided to cancel the power purchase agreement for the 600 MW project that it won at a tariff of Rs 2.44/kWh as it fears commissioning to stretch beyond a 6-month extension from the scheduled date.Acme Solar, which won a 600 MW project...

21 May

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Arrested Development: Global Renewables Market to Fall for First Time in 20 Years, IEA Says

Global deployment of renewable energy in 2020 will fall short of last year's tally, the first interruption of year-on-year growth in nearly two decades, according to the International Energy Agency. New data from the IEA released Wednesday reaffirms earlier forecasts of lower wind and solar installations in 2020 due...

21 May

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Why (and How) the Solar Finance Market Is Changing in This Crisis

The renewable energy asset class in the U.S., particularly solar and wind projects, is something of a safe haven for investors looking for non-correlated, stable, dollar-denominated long-term cash flows. But the solar market, like every sector of our economy, is changing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It is tempting...

21 May

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State of Virginia partners with SolSmart to help more local governments improve solar access

The national SolSmart program is partnering with experts at the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) and the University of Virginia (UVA) to help local governments across the state make it faster, easier, and more affordable to go solar. Carrie Hearne at the...

20 May

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Lead-free quantum dot solar cells with 10% efficiency

Scientists in the United States have created a quantum dot solar cell which has a photon-to-electron conversion efficiency of 85%. The device is also said to exhibit remarkable defect tolerance and toxic-element-free composition.A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the U.S. claims to...

20 May

solar industry

PG&E’s Plan to Mitigate Blackouts This Wildfire Season: Lots More Diesel Generators

HEVO to Launch US Manufacturing for Wireless Electric Vehicle Charger

Why Innovation Is the Key to Accelerating Battery Storage Growth

Marine Sector Turns to Ammonia to Decarbonize Shipping

SunShare adds 4.5 MW of community solar to Minnesota energy market

Covid-19 impact: Acme Solar abandons India’s record-low PV tariff project

Arrested Development: Global Renewables Market to Fall for First Time in 20 Years, IEA Says

Why (and How) the Solar Finance Market Is Changing in This Crisis

State of Virginia partners with SolSmart to help more local governments improve solar access

Lead-free quantum dot solar cells with 10% efficiency

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