Recent headlines have captured the decision of the newly elected Ontario provincial government to cancel more than 700 renewable energy contracts in the province.
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Bloomberg Analyst: Battery Boom Could Burn Investors
Some of the latest battery technologies may become obsolete before reaching the market because of the breakneck pace of advances in the industry.
Hydro Tasmania Eyes Pumped Hydro To Shore Up Renewables
Chris Gwynne stands in a ravine below a towering dam in the Tasmanian wilderness and ponders whether the giant concrete structure can withstand the politics that may keep it from playing a key role in Australia’s clean energy future.
Is Climate Change or Negligence Responsible for Calif. Fires?
It was California’s biggest fire yet. In late July and August, wildfires devastated an area north of San Francisco far bigger than New York City, destroying more than 100 homes and injuring 2 fire fighters. It’s just one in a rash of fast-spreading bla…
Ørsted signs with Siemens Gamesa for Dominion’s Offshore Wind Project
Ørsted signed up Siemens Gamesa to supply turbines for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project that Dominion has planned since 2011. The wind farm 27 miles off the Virginia coast would the first such project in the U.S. mid-Atlantic.
Xcel Energy breaks ground on 150-MW Foxtail Wind project in North Dakota
Xcel Energy recently celebrated the groundbreaking of its 150-MW Foxtail Wind project in Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.
Trump Officials Helped Edit ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Report to Boost Coal
Trump administration officials pushed to highlight the value of coal-fired power plants in a government report on the “bomb cyclone” that plunged the Eastern U.S. into single-digit temperatures last January.
Danish Firm Moving big into U.S. Wind Energy Development
Ørsted announced it is buying 100 percent of Lincoln Clean Energy (LCE) for about $580 million (500 million €) from owner I Squared Capital. Since I Squared acquired the firm in 2015, LCE has built or is completing than 800 MW in onshore wind generation capacity.
Bullet Train Thinking: How Japan Hopes to Lead a Global Hydrogen Revolution
“Japan will present hydrogen to the rest of the world as a new energy choice and will lead global efforts for establishing a carbon-free society taking advantage of Japan’s strong points,” read a statement from Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and I…
Mexico Gaining $109M Loan to Increase Geothermal Generation
New geothermal capacity in Mexico could rise 300 MW over 10 years.
Negative Electricity Pricing Abounds As Wind, Solar Flood the Grid
Bright and breezy days are becoming a deeper nightmare for utilities struggling to earn a return on traditional power plants. With wind and solar farms sprouting up in more areas — and their power getting priority to feed into the grid in many places …
Demand for Clean Energy Coming from Businesses, not Politics
American firms have accounted for 4.2 GW, or 60 percent, of global corporate clean energy procurements so far in 2018, already setting a record over 2017’s previous benchmark pace, according to Bloomberg NEF report.
EPM to raise US$1.4 billion from asset sales to remain solvent after 2.4-GW Ituango hydro crisis
Empresas Publicas de Medellin in Colombia has announced it plans to raise up to US$1.4 billion from asset sales in a bid to remain solvent in the wake of the crisis at the 2.4-GW Ituango hydro facility.
The Future of Energy Infrastructure in Africa
Utility experts flocked to Johannesburg last month and talked how the skies the limit for the future opportunities and challenges of grid expansion and modernization in Africa.
There’s a Hidden Battery Play in the ‘Extremes’ of Power Prices
There’s an energy-storage opportunity hidden in plain sight — and it has little to do with electric vehicles.
As batteries go mainstream, the “deepest potential” for them is likely to be in arbitrage, according to a Bloomberg NEF report Tuesday.
Gas ‘Peakers’ Seeing New Life as Temps Increase and Renewables Fluctuate
Europe’s heat wave is hastening the rise of the “peaker,” a natural gas-fired power plant that can switch on and off quickly and runs only when there’s high demand.
Vattenfall Places First Turbine in New Wind Power Farm off Danish Coast
The wind farm will increase Danish annual electricity production from wind by about 12 percent.
Bids Compete for Saudi 400 MW Windfarm
Saudi Arabia today opened final bidding for its first utility-scale windfarm.
Should California Opt-In to One Large Regional Power Grid?
Late last year, Renewable Energy World published articles and a video to explain the energy imbalance market to readers. This is the market that was created as a result of the fact that California often has excess solar, wind and hydropower and must “c…
Report Forecasts 12 GW a Year of Windpower in Asia Pacific
Annual wind power capacity in the Asia Pacific (excluding China) will reach a peak of 12.1 GW by 2022.