A contender for the largest solar plant in the U.S. is still waiting for a key permit after a federal agency missed its March issuing…
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As battery prices continue to fall and the penetration of variable wind and solar generation rises, power plant developers are increasingly combining wind and solar…
As the world grapples with the unfolding human and economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic, keeping the electricity system running has become more important than ever.…
This week: The coronavirus shockwave brings staggering losses of lives, jobs, and money. So many people applied for unemployment last week – 5 times more…
Companies inside China are slow to resume their normal productions due to various factors. These include the shortage of parts from lower-tier suppliers; the shortage…
Week in Review Commentary on this week’s news highlights begins at 3:00. Not just biofuels: Algae’s next wave This is exactly the time to be…
Over the past year, a movement to electrify buildings has come fast and furious, pushing both residential and commercial construction away from natural gas appliances. …
Businesses have been making huge losses by failing to capture the value of industrial waste, but applying circular economy strategies, enabled by new technologies, could…
Feeling a bit stir crazy? Us too. We were looking for a way to close the social distance this week, so Interchange co-hosts Stephen Lacey…
A 5-gigawatt hit to utility-scale solar in the United States could be on the horizon due to the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus’ impact on the utility-scale solar…
California grid operator CAISO has been curtailing renewable energy at record levels this year, as the state’s ever-rising share of solar power during daylight hours…
Spanish power group Iberdrola, one of the world’s largest investors in clean-energy projects, pledged to ramp up its investments in spite of the coronavirus pandemic. Iberdrola’s total…
Large-scale solar and wind projects face possible coronavirus-related delays, but perhaps no part of the U.S. renewables industry has felt the outbreak’s sting more quickly…
Climate change didn’t stop while the world turned its attention to combating the coronavirus. On this week’s episode of Political Climate we discuss: will leaders…
Amid the white noise of COVID-19 pandemic coverage last week, news about the $80 million funding round for alternative protein company Nature’s Fynd offered a…
The transition to clean energy is akin to the entire world participating in a symphony. Each player has a critical role, timing is essential and…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is to release research showing solar panels could be landfilled safely amid growing concern over the disposal of renewable energy…
This originally was published on Conservation International’s blog, Human Nature. In 2019, a United Nations report laid out a bitter truth: The current food system is fueling…
Decades after the invention of electricity and significant investments in its generation around the world, one would expect a consequential decline in the demand and…
Over the last six weeks we’ve profiled emerging state markets where energy storage projects are getting built or gaining traction. But there are plenty more…