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Rural Pakistanis Take to Solar After Power Cuts Deepen
Rural Pakistanis are increasingly turning to renewable energy to circumvent the country’s notoriously unreliable power supply. Deficient generation and distribution shave an estimated 2 percentage points off Pakistan’s economic growth annually and faults in the national grid are exposed every summer as demand increases. Source: Renewable Energy
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Blockchain’s Potential for Managing the Impact of Renewables and Peer-to-Peer Sales
Blockchain has the potential to change the business world as we know it today. Entire value chains can be shortened by it — including in the energy industry. Source: Renewable Energy
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Climate Pledges of the World Are Not ‘Ambitious Enough’
Speaking at the start of a new round of climate talks in Bonn, Germany, today, Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said the current climate pledges put forth by signatories of the Paris Agreement “simply aren’t ambitious enough.” Source: Renewable Energy
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First Solar Plans 1.2-GW Solar PV Manufacturing Facility in Ohio
Solar PV provider First Solar yesterday said it will build a new solar module manufacturing facility near its existing Perrysburg, Ohio plant. Source: Renewable Energy
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The US Has Millions of Tons of a Low-Carbon Fuel Source, But It's Being Thrown Away
The U.S. generates millions of tons of food scraps; inedible fats, oils and greases; sewage and manure. Some of this organic waste is used for energy or fertilizer, but most of it—around 50 million tons a year—is sent to landfills, incinerated, or otherwise left to decompose. Source: Renewable Energy
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US DOE Puts Up $14.5 Million for Innovative Geothermal Drilling Tech
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) last week said it is making up to $14.5 million in new funding available to advance geothermal energy development. Source: Renewable Energy
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Global Wind Energy Insight: The Knowns, Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns
Every year at about this time we at the Global Wind Energy Council release our ‘Global Wind Report: Annual Market Update,’ updating our preliminary annual market statistics, surveying the global market, giving snapshots of the most important markets, delving into some key issues facing the wind sector and laying out our projections for the next…
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Unirac Acquires Residential Attachments Specialist SolarHooks
Solar PV mounting systems provider Unirac Inc. today said that it has acquired certain assets of SolarHooks, a manufacturer of residential solar roof attachments. Source: Renewable Energy
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17-Year-Old Wind Farms in Texas Set for Repowering
Three wind farms in Texas with a combined installed capacity of 508 MW will undergo repowering this year to improve operational efficiencies and extend the projects’ lifespan. Source: Renewable Energy
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California State Senator: 100 Percent Renewable Energy is ‘Within Reach’
Whereas research reports by the world’s most eminent climatologists seem almost daily to bring foreboding climate news, renewable energy proponents who met at UC Berkeley in mid-April were decidedly upbeat about clean energy prospects. Source: Renewable Energy