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What Other States Can Learn from California’s Solar Mandate
State energy policymakers can achieve their economic and environmental goals only from carefully designed solar mandates. Source: Renewable Energy
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Vattenfall Places First Turbine in New Wind Power Farm off Danish Coast
The wind farm will increase Danish annual electricity production from wind by about 12 percent. Source: Renewable Energy
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Tesla Trauma Shows Lithium Market Needs to Chill
Isn’t lithium meant to be a mood stabilizer? That’s certainly not what’s happening in the stocks of companies that produce the element used in rechargeable batteries and psychiatric medications. News this week that Tesla Inc. sent a memo to some suppliers asking them for payment rebates to help it become profitable shook shares in lithium…
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China's Silk Road Fund Takes 24 Percent Stake in Concentrating Solar Power Plant
hina’s Silk Road Fund will acquire a 24.01 percent interest in the world’s largest single-site solar thermal plant, which is being built in the United Arab Emirates. The 700-megawatt project will be developed along with Dubai Electricity & Water Authority and Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power Barka SAOG, ACWA said in a statement on Sunday. The…
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Bids Compete for Saudi 400 MW Windfarm
Saudi Arabia today opened final bidding for its first utility-scale windfarm. Source: Renewable Energy
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UK Islands Used To Test $14M Storage and Renewables Model
An energy storage and renewables project on the UK’s Isles of Scilly is aiming to become a low carbon energy model for island communities worldwide. Source: Renewable Energy
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Manufacturing Solar Modules with Solar Energy: One Company’s Vision
In July at Intersolar North America, Lee Zhenguo, President of LONGi Group laid out his “solar for solar” vision and explained how one day he believes solar will be so cheap that it will be used to help fix some of the monumental environmental issues that plague the world today. Source: Renewable Energy
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UK Offshore Wind Power Capacity Could Nearly Double by 2030
The UK’s offshore wind power capacity is set to nearly double over the next decade, as a result of a new government initiative, according to the industry. It said that by 2030, between a fifth and a third of the UK’s electricity could come from offshore wind power. Thanks to plummeting costs, offshore wind has…
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Should California Opt-In to One Large Regional Power Grid?
Late last year, Renewable Energy World published articles and a video to explain the energy imbalance market to readers. This is the market that was created as a result of the fact that California often has excess solar, wind and hydropower and must “curtail” those energy sources, which means turn them off completely. Instead of…
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Fury at Plans to Scrap UK Renewables Subsidies
Renewables and sustainability groups have reacted with fury to proposals by the UK government to scrap subsidies for green energy projects. Source: Renewable Energy