The state of New York has awarded 2.5 gigawatts of offshore wind projects to developers Equinor and BP, the largest yet in the state’s massive…
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A little while back, I was at an industry happy hour (hey, remember those?) where I ran into a friend and well-known industry analyst, Wood…
The modern, renewable energy-rich power grid is an increasingly complicated machine to model. Maybe technology born of the massively complicated world of designing computer chips…
Proterra, builder of electric buses, heavy-duty vehicle drivetrains, batteries and charging systems, plans to go public on the Nasdaq exchange via a merger with a…
Rob Gramlich, president of Grid Strategies, has a simple explanation for why U.S. transmission grid policy has stalled the growth of wind and solar power. …
Solar still accounts for a marginal percentage of overall electricity load in nearly every state. But net metering battles, which often pit utility companies against…
French utility Engie and developer Neoen are planning to invest about €1 billion ($1.2 billion) to build a 1-gigawatt solar-powered low carbon energy park in France, comfortably breaking…
Homes need a lot more digital smarts nowadays to manage rooftop solar, backup batteries and electric vehicle chargers. It’s nice if those distributed energy resources…
Global offshore wind developer Ørsted has become the latest major player to pursue off-grid green hydrogen, a technology that could expand capacity for converting offshore…
Just before New Year, offshore wind farm developer Ørsted’s 2.4GW Hornsea Project Three was given the green light by the U.K. government. But the project highlighted the…
New Jersey’s biggest utility has gotten the go-ahead to deploy about 2.3 million smart meters — but with regulator insistence that it share the benefits…
Hawaii’s island of Kauai further burnished its reputation for figuring out clean energy years ahead of the mainland. The nonprofit Kauai Island Utility Cooperative signed a deal…
Study after study over the past decade have concluded that expanding the U.S. transmission grid will play a key role in decarbonizing the country’s electricity…
In the final moments of 2020, the most important U.S. energy legislation in a decade flew in under the radar, attached to the coronavirus relief…
Plug Power has raised $1.5 billion from South Korea’s SK Group, aimed at boosting hydrogen fuel cells and green hydrogen electrolyzers as a cleaner source…
Net-zero commitments went mainstream in 2020. There are now 22 regions, 452 cities, and over 1,100 companies with revenues over $11 trillion that have pledged…
A new active network management project in the U.K. will lay the foundations for a flexibility platform encompassing centralized and decentralized assets — the latest step…
Fluence, one of the largest suppliers of large-scale energy storage for the grid, is not a startup. It was formed as a joint venture between…
Over the past 20 years, the increasing recognition that climate change poses a grave threat to our society has given rise to an entirely new…
Whose fault is it that the first generation of U.S. smart meters haven’t lived up to their potential? And how can the next generation avoid…