At the end of December 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service awarded $1.4 billion in grant and loan financing to San Miguel Electric Cooperative, a utility provider that operates in rural Texas. The financing will go toward a total of 600 MW of renewable energy, including 400 MW for solar panels […]
In Barcelona, energy from train brakes that could otherwise be wasted is now being harvested to charge electric vehicles. As part of Spain’s MetroCHARGE project, 16 subway stations in Barcelona use brake energy recuperators to redirect energy from the train brakes to EV charging stations on the streets, The Associated Press reported. Regenerative braking is […]
Air-drying clothes in the summer is quite simple, hanging shirts and linens on picturesque laundry lines in the dry, warm air. When winter comes with its cold, wet days, it’s hard to imagine the line full of laundry in the backyard — but winter weather doesn’t necessarily mean it’s time to start tumble-drying again. Drying […]
Palestinians whose family members were killed in Gaza attacks by Israel during the last 14 months have taken legal action against British oil major BP. They argue that the company’s ownership of the pipeline supplying Israel with oil has been aiding the assault. The claimants sent BP a “letter before claim” that alleges its actions […]
Record wind-generated electricity across Northern Ireland and Scotland Tuesday night pushed Britain’s power prices below zero. Wind output peaked at a record high 22.4 gigawatts (GW), breaking the previous high set Sunday evening, the national system operator said, as Bloomberg reported. The record output provided more than 68 percent of the country’s power. From 5:30 […]
The Montana Supreme Court upheld a landmark victory on Wednesday, affirming a lower court’s decision that the energy policies of the state violated youth activists’ constitutional rights to a clean environment. The ruling in Held v. Montana last August invalidated a law stopping regulators from taking into consideration the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions when […]
Japan has its sights set on renewable energy producing 40 to 50 percent of its electricity by 2040, with another 20 percent coming from nuclear power, according to a new draft of its basic energy policy. Japan is the second-largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer in the world, as well as a big consumer of […]
Ed Miliband, the United Kingdom’s secretary of energy and climate change, announced on Friday the government’s “clean power 2030” plan, which includes measures giving ministers final approval of large onshore wind farms. The plan is part of an “ambitious” goal of reaching 95 percent green energy by the end of the decade, reported BBC News. […]
According to the latest U.S. Energy Storage Monitor report by American Clean Power Association (ACP) and Wood Mackenzie, installations of both grid-scale and residential energy storage in the U.S. are continuing to rise, even reaching record highs in the third quarter of 2024. Grid-scale energy storage reached a record for third-quarter installations, hitting 3,806 MW […]
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