Author / Calvin Cao
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From Residential to Utility-Scale, Solar Wins in Recent State-Level Actions
A series of recent state-level actions have been lauded by industry advocates as positive steps for driving deployments of residential, community-scale and utility-scale solar. Source: Renewable Energy
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Biomass to Help Clean Up One of EU’s Most Polluting Countries
A newly formed business partnership is working to find a way to use biomass with legacy coal waste in a “super-fuel” blend to help clean up one of the most polluting coal countries in the European Union. Source: Renewable Energy
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What's the Most Important Thing California Can Do with Its Clean Energy?
Not often is running the electric grid as simple as applying lessons from childhood. Right now it is — California is learning to share with its neighbors. Source: Renewable Energy
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World's Energy Giants Flock to Latin American Renewables Market
Latin America’s booming clean energy market is attracting the world’s energy giants, which are driving down prices and squeezing out the little guys. Source: Renewable Energy
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Norway’s Statoil Embraces Broader Energy Future with New Name
Norwegian multinational oil and gas company Statoil yesterday said that it plans to change its name to Equinor to reflect its evolution into a “broad energy company” that will include renewables. Source: Renewable Energy
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World Bank approves US$375 million IDA credit to support Ethiopia 2025 goal
The World Bank Group has approved a US$375 million International Development Association (IDA) credit to support Ethiopia’s goal of achieving universal electricity access by 2025. Source: Renewable Energy
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Global Solar Installations Jumped 29 Percent in 2017
Global solar power saw considerable success last year, with installations increasing by about 29 percent to 98.9 GW from 76.5 GW in 2016, according to data released today by SolarPower Europe. Source: Renewable Energy
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Puerto Rico-Based Fortune 500 Company Banks on Reliable Power for a New Microgrid
On Wednesday, March 14, 2018, Fairbanks Morse announced that it has delivered its PoweReliability-as-a-Service platform to a Fortune 500 company in Puerto Rico. The installation provides a dual fuel combined heat and power (CHP) microgrid with approximately 10 megawatts of capacity. Source: Renewable Energy
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Efficiency Startup Gets Funding to Cut Energy Use by Buildings
Carbon Lighthouse, a San Francisco-based energy-efficiency company, raised $27 million to expand its engineering and marketing efforts. GRC SinoGreen Fund led the oversubscribed funding round and JCI Ventures, SV Tech Ventures and EBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s Ulupono Initiative also participated, according to Carbon Lighthouse Chief Executive Officer Brenden Millstein. Other investors included Ekistic Ventures, Tom Steyer’s Radicle…
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Egypt Brings Online First Plant in 1.8-GW Solar Park
Egypt inaugurated the first solar power plant at a remote desert complex where the government plans to generate as much as 1.8 GW from the sun, cutting the most populous Arab nation’s reliance on dirty and expensive fossil fuels. Source: Renewable Energy