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  • Bloomberg Analyst: Battery Boom Could Burn Investors

    Some of the latest battery technologies may become obsolete before reaching the market because of the breakneck pace of advances in the industry. Source: Renewable Energy

  • Can Solar Energy Save the Bees?

    In response to the population decline of pollinating insects, such as wild bees and monarch butterflies, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are investigating ways to use “pollinator-friendly solar power.” Source: Renewable Energy

  • Energy Storage System Mitigates Rising Peak Demand Charges in Ontario

    Last week Peak Power announced that it had agreed to install up to 2.35 MW / 4.7 MWh of energy storage capacity at Bloor Islington Place in Toronto. Starlight Investments, a real estate and asset management company, owns the building. Source: Renewable Energy

  • Hydro Tasmania Eyes Pumped Hydro To Shore Up Renewables

    Chris Gwynne stands in a ravine below a towering dam in the Tasmanian wilderness and ponders whether the giant concrete structure can withstand the politics that may keep it from playing a key role in Australia’s clean energy future. Source: Renewable Energy

  • Is Climate Change or Negligence Responsible for Calif. Fires?

    It was California’s biggest fire yet. In late July and August, wildfires devastated an area north of San Francisco far bigger than New York City, destroying more than 100 homes and injuring 2 fire fighters. It’s just one in a rash of fast-spreading blazes that have killed at least 56 people this year and last…

  • Australian Gas Peaker Plant To Get 4-MW Battery

    In an Australian first, Origin will install a 4-MW/4-MWh grid scale battery at its Mt Stuart Power Station in Townsville. Mt Stuart Power Station is a 414-MW open cycle gas power station, designed to supply electricity at times of peak demand and is the largest such facility in North Queensland. In the U.S., these plants…

  • Puerto Rico School Ready for the Next Hurricane with Grid-Resilient Solar and Storage

    About 140 students, teachers, administrators, and neighboring community members this week celebrated the installation of a solar plus storage solution at the SU Manuel Ortiz school in the Yabucoa district of Puerto Rico, one of the regions hardest hit by Hurricane Maria last year. Source: Renewable Energy

  • Ontario Power Generation signs agreement to purchase Eagle Creek Renewable Energy

    Canadian provincial utility Ontario Power Generation has signed a purchase and sale agreement to acquire 100% of the equity of Eagle Creek Renewable Energy LLC in the U.S. Source: Renewable Energy

  • The Long Unraveling of Tesla’s Master Plan

    While this week’s episode of Tesla Inc. has left us with several cliffhangers, it did show one thing: just how far the company has veered from Elon Musk’s secret “Master Plan” of 2006. Source: Renewable Energy

  • Ørsted signs with Siemens Gamesa for Dominion's Offshore Wind Project

    Ørsted signed up Siemens Gamesa to supply turbines for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project that Dominion has planned since 2011. The wind farm 27 miles off the Virginia coast would the first such project in the U.S. mid-Atlantic. Source: Renewable Energy