Are progressive ideas on how to tackle climate change a poison pill for U.S. politicians? The results of recent opinion polling challenge this commonly held assumption. On this week's episode of Political Climate, we discuss how data is helping decode where the American public stands on progressive...
Read MoreForm Energy, the stealthy, Bill Gates-backed startup, has secured its first utility deal for a novel super-long duration energy storage technology. And its stated capability blows away anything else on the market. A cadre of storage industry veterans and MIT scientists started Form Energy in late 2017 to...
Read MoreDestruction. Dislocation. Collapse. A permanent reset. Read any news about oil markets, and these are the vivid descriptions you’ll encounter. We are now deep into an historic pause for oil demand across the globe — shutting down oil fields, causing negative pricing, overwhelming our storage abilities, and forcing...
Read MoreSolar Edge and Enphase, which together dominate the U.S. market for residential solar inverters, managed to achieve major growth in the first quarter of 2020, but warned of reduced demand in the months ahead due to the global pandemic. Enphase delayed the launch of its long-awaited residential...
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The market for drones in the power and utility industry will grow 23.6% annually, reaching $515 million by 2030—according to a Frost & Sullivan report. The report, Drones in the Global Power and Utilities Industry, Forecast to 2030, cites ongoing digital transformation, remote monitoring, and the...
Read MorekWh Analytics announced it has structured a Solar Revenue Put as part of the refinancing of the 173-MWDC Cal Flats 130 solar facility located in Monterey County, California. The Solar Revenue Put is structured as an insurance policy on solar production and revenues, which serves...
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Scientists in Egypt have investigated the effectiveness of using water and a mixture of aluminum oxide and calcium chloride hexahydrate to cool PV modules. Optimal performance was observed with a solution of 75% water, according to the research findings.From pv magazine International Scientists from Egypt’s Benha University have...
Read MoreThe Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) and GridLab announced the release of ”A Playbook for Modernizing the Distribution Grid; Volume I: Grid Modernization Goals, Principles and Plan Evaluation Checklist,” an evaluation toolkit to ensure that efforts to modernize the U.S. electricity grid are more efficient...
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The Chinese conglomerate has revealed how it will further integrate artificial intelligence (AI) in its string devices this year. The approach includes the transformation of inverters into smart PV controllers, the development of AI inference modules and the creation of an AI training and inference...
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Appetite may have been lacking among private investors – at a time when global stocks are tanking amid Covid-19 and global recession fears – but the eco-friendly new Finnish government, and neighboring administrations, have stepped in to fill the breach.Finnish solar manufacturer Valoe has secured...
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