Day: February 4, 2019
Wind Turbine Manufacturers Hit Turbulence
The shakeout in wind turbine manufacturing industry is starting to produce winners and losers after increasing competition gutted margins. Wind is one of the lowest-cost forms of energy generation and getting cheaper, with turbine prices down more than 50 percent in the past decade. That has hurt…
How Digitalization and Blockchain Can Unlock an Energy Trading Revolution
Digital solutions could revolutionize energy trading if they were adopted more widely across the market.
Duke Carolinas Completes $1B Green Bonds Issue to Finance Renewables and Energy Storage
Duke is focused on emissions reduction by retiring coal-fired plants, increasing nuclear generation capacity and has add close to 650 MW of built or purchased solar energy.
Mixed Results for Renewable Energy Agenda in the 2018 Midterms
Clean energy is usually never a central focus of the ballot but was a high priority for voters this election. Here's a recap of the most critical results affecting renewable energy.
1000-Acre Sunflower Solar Farm to be Built for Entergy Mississippi
This week the parent company of Recurrent Energy, Canadian Solar, said that Recurrent had signed a build-transfer agreement (BTA) for a base purchase price of approximately $138.4 million with Entergy Mississippi for a 100-MWac solar PV project in Sunflower County, Mississippi.
GE's Latest Offspring Hopes to Ride Wind, Solar Microgrid Wave
The latest company born out of General Electric Co. expects sales of its industrial engines fired by natural gas to benefit from the spread of renewables such as solar and wind.
China's Solar Bailout Won't Counter Global Glut: Credit Suisse
China’s proposal to increase its solar energy target to as much as 270 gigawatts by 2020 won’t be enough to erase the worldwide panel glut that’s crippling prices, according to analysts at Credit Suisse Group AG.
KIUC awards contract for West Kauaʿi Energy Project, which includes pumped storage hydro
The Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) has executed a contract for design, engineering and construction services for the West Kauaʿi Energy Project in Hawaii with EPC contractor McMillen Jacobs Associates.
Silicon Production On the Rise in China
According to statistics released by the China Photovoltaic Industry Association, factories across the country produced 143,000 tons of polycrystalline silicon during the first half of this year, a year-over-year increase of 24 percent. Silicon chips manufactured soared to 50 GW during the same…
Putting PURPA Under a Microscope
A 40-year-old law that’s been key to the growth of renewable energy in the U.S. may be due for an overhaul.