renewables

Nation’s Largest Residential Solar Storage Project to Launch This Summer

Nation’s Largest Residential Solar Storage Project to Launch This Summer

This summer, hundreds of homes Brooklyn and Queens will be recruited in an experiment to create a “clean virtual power plant” that feeds the utility grid with solar energy. SPWR & @ConEdison launch largest virtual power plant in US with ~300 #solar + storage homes. https://t.co/h0Te45aaJg pic.twitter.com/YPqJAG0FB2 — SunPower (@SunPower) June 13, 2016 New York utility Consolidated Edison […]

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    Solar Added More New Capacity Than Coal, Natural Gas and Nuclear Combined

    Solar Added More New Capacity Than Coal, Natural Gas and Nuclear Combined

    Solar is on track for another record-shattering year. According to a new report from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the U.S. solar industry will install 14.5 gigawatts of capacity in 2016, nearly doubling the 7.5 gigawatts in capacity installed in 2015. The U.S. solar market will nearly double in 2016, thanks […]

    Solar War Continues in North Carolina: Nonprofit vs. Duke Energy

    Solar War Continues in North Carolina: Nonprofit vs. Duke Energy

    In one of the remaining four states that explicitly ban third-party solar sales, a small nonprofit is continuing its fight against the nation’s biggest utility over the right to sell solar power to churches and other nonprofits without the utility’s involvement. North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network (NC WARN), a 28-year-old environmental nonprofit with an […]

    Solar Beats Coal for Entire Month in UK for First Time

    Solar Beats Coal for Entire Month in UK for First Time

    The UK’s solar panels generated more electricity than coal in May 2016, the first-ever calendar month to pass the milestone, Carbon Brief analysis shows. Solar generated an estimated 1,336 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity in May, 50 percent more than the 893 GWh output from coal. The finding follows on from Carbon Brief’s earlier analysis showing […]

    Does Ground-Breaking India-U.S. Announcement Put Clean Energy in the Catbird Seat?

    Does Ground-Breaking India-U.S. Announcement Put Clean Energy in the Catbird Seat?

    The ground-breaking announcement Tuesday that India, the U.S. and a group of U.S. foundations have joined together to create two innovative financing mechanisms for rooftop and distributed solar power in India is emblematic of the new stage of the ongoing global energy transformation. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India talk after […]

    South Korea’s Plan to Have World’s First Carbon-Free Island

    South Korea’s Plan to Have World’s First Carbon-Free Island

    A small island south of South Korea is working for the title of world’s first carbon-free island. And it’s pretty close to accomplishing just that. Gapado Island, home to 177 people, relies mainly on solar and wind power for electricity. Two wind power generators have been installed on the island, which produce 500 kilowatts of […]

    100 Solutions to the World’s Most Pressing Challenges

    100 Solutions to the World’s Most Pressing Challenges

    The 2016 Sustainia100 is out today and this year’s solutions provide a glimpse into a global business landscape that is seizing a world of opportunities that arise from the UN’s newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Get ready for an inspirational round-the-world trip to the 100 most innovative, available, scalable and sustainable solutions to the […]

    Cleveland Soon to Be Home to the Nation’s First Offshore Wind Farm in Fresh Water

    Cleveland Soon to Be Home to the Nation’s First Offshore Wind Farm in Fresh Water

    North America’s first offshore freshwater wind project has received a $40 million boost from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). In somewhat of a surprise decision, the funding was awarded to Lake Erie Energy Development Co (LEEDCo) for its “Icebreaker” project, which consists of six 3.45-megawatt turbines located 8-10 miles off the coast of Cleveland. The Cleveland skyline […]

    Dubai to Build World’s Largest Concentrated Solar Power Plant

    Dubai to Build World’s Largest Concentrated Solar Power Plant

    Dubai will soon be home to the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant. https://twitter.com/DianaRadoane/status/738397685925969920 The Dubai Water and Electricity Authority (DEWA) has announced the second phase of a massive solar project located in the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. According to a press release, the park is the largest single-site project to generate […]