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Follow @EngelsAngle The Biden administration has started the process of revising public land regulations for renewable energy projects, a move that advocates say could cut costs for wind and solar project developers. The Bureau of Land Management is soliciting public input on proposed rulemaking related to renewable energy permitting and linear rights-of-way on public lands.…

Follow @EngelsAngle U.S. shipments of solar photovoltaic modules — including imports, exports, and modules produced domestically — reached a record 21.8 million peak kilowatts in 2020, despite global pressures of the coronavirus pandemic. Data released by the Energy Information Administration shows U.S. solar PV shipments increased by 33% last year, an increase of 5.4 million…

RENOVA Inc. announces that it is participating in the 17.4-MW Kiangan Hydroelectric Power Project currently under development in Ifugao Province, Philippines and the project concluded loan agreements with the Philippine Development Bank and other financial institutions as of Aug. 26, 2021. The Kiangan project will be RENOVA’s first hydroelectric power project and its first investment…

Follow @EngelsAngle If Duke Energy avoids natural gas capacity additions and adds renewable energy and energy storage under a proposed North Carolina law, the utility could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 74% over the next decade, according to a study. Economists at The Brattle Group prepared the study, A Pathway to Decarbonization: Generation Cost &…

Fears that the COVID-19 pandemic would substantially slow the development of utility-scale solar generation appear unfounded, at least for seven of the country’s biggest projects. To see if the pandemic, or anything else for that matter, had affected the progress of large solar generation projects, business intelligence provider FirmoGraphs looked at the seven solar projects…

By David Thill, Energy News Network Vermont this summer launched an initiative to spur a challenging but potentially crucial market in the state’s decarbonization goals: ground-source heat pumps. But even with generous new incentives for homeowners, installation is expensive — running upward of $25,000 to $40,000 — and the market is small. Supporters say that…

Follow @EngelsAngle Shell and CoensHexicon have formed a joint venture to build a massive floating offshore wind farm off South Korea. Located about 65 km off Ulsan City, the 1.4 GW MunmuBaram project is expected to generate up to 4.65-terawatt hour (TWh) of clean energy every year, enough to power more than 1 million homes…

Follow @EngelsAngle Shell will install 50,000 on-street electric vehicle chargers in the UK by 2025, the company announced on Wednesday. The rollout of charging stations will be done by ubitricity, which Shell acquired in February. Ubitricity — owner of the largest public EV charging network in the UK — embeds its technology into existing street…

Follow @EngelsAngle The first community solar program in the U.S. to automatically enroll residents is now active in Western New York. The community choice solar program has been made available to more than 3,800 households and small businesses in Brockport and Lima as part of Joule Community Power’s Finger Lakes Community Choice program. All eligible…

Follow @EngelsAngle The global push to produce all electricity from clean sources won’t be enough to meet the net-zero target of the Paris climate agreement, according to a new report from energy consultant DNV. DNV’s fifth annual Energy Transition Outlook comes two months before COP26, the climate summit of world leaders, in Glasgow. At COP21,…