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  • Solar Power Plant Operators: Are You Prepared for a Reliability Audit?

    Solar reliability audits are intense and time-consuming. The energy facility operator bears the burden of demonstrating compliance with reliability standards that are continually evolving to keep up with technological and regulatory changes. Even so, with the fast-paced growth of solar energy development, some solar facility operators have yet to experience a reliability audit. Understanding the…

  • New Jersey's Planned $4.1B Clean Energy Investment includes $180M for Storage

    New Jersey’s biggest utility says it can make money by getting its customers to use less of what it sells. Source: Renewable Energy

  • How Renewables Lead to a World of Peak Energy

    It can be hard to get your head around just how much energy the world uses. Expressed in terms of oil, it was equivalent to almost 14 billion metric tons of the stuff in 2017. That’s like burning through all of Russia’s proved reserves in the space of 12 months, which is, in technical terms,…

  • Energy Poverty amidst Abundant Generation Capacity: Africa in Perspective

    Energy poverty is a challenge in many countries and continues to attract attention in international development discourses. Beside the inconveniences people and societies have to face, the lack of affordable and reliable energy supply is a social and economic tragedy with serious implications for many development outcomes. Source: Renewable Energy

  • Massachusetts Regulators Approve New ‘SMART’ Solar, Storage Program

    More than a year after it was first announced, this week the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) approved the state’s newest solar incentive program, Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART), which provides declining incentives for up to 1600 MW of solar. The incentives are a fixed amount and vary by “block” and also decline over…

  • Tesla Tumbles on Worries of Musk-Less Future

    It’s nearly impossible to imagine Tesla Inc. without Elon Musk, its chairman, CEO, largest shareholder and public face. Source: Renewable Energy

  • World Bank Offers $1 Billion for Batteries in Emerging Markets

    The World Bank Group committed $1 billion to finance battery-storage systems in developing and middle-income countries, and expects its participation to attract another $4 billion in backing from investors as well as public and private funds. Source: Renewable Energy

  • US Production, Consumption of Non-Hydro Renewables Hit Record High in 1H 2018

    Non-hydro renewable energy sources (i.e., biofuels, biomass, geothermal, solar, wind) set new U.S. records for both production and consumption in the first half of 2018, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of data just released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Source: Renewable Energy

  • Renewables in UK Energy Mix Hit All-time High

    The share of renewables in the UK’s electricity generation hit a record high of 31.7 per cent in the second quarter of 2018, while coal dropped to an all-time low of only 1.6 per cent. Source: Renewable Energy

  • Corbyn Vows to ‘Kickstart a Green Energy Revolution’ in the UK

    The Leader of the Opposition in the UK has vowed to “kickstart a green jobs revolution that will help tackle climate change, provide sustainable energy for the future and create skilled jobs in every nation and region” of Britain.   Source: Renewable Energy