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Alberta Leads the Pack With Cheap Wind Power; More to Come
When the winning bids for Alberta’s renewable power auction were announced in December, jaws dropped. The winning projects were approved at a record-breaking low price of C3.7 cents per kilowatt hour — the lowest price for electricity anywhere in Canada. Source: Renewable Energy
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Icelandic hydro project assessed using Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol
The 690-MW Karahnjukar hydroelectric project, in Fljotsdalur Valley of eastern Iceland has achieved “best practice scores” in several categories of the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol (HSAP), according to the International Hydropower Association. Source: Renewable Energy
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Homeowners Get New Tesla Batteries in Utility Trial
Nova Scotia Power has installed Tesla Powerwall batteries at 10 of its customers’ homes in a trial that the utility says will help it meet a 40 percent renewables by 2020 goal. Source: Renewable Energy
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How to Make Corporate Sustainability a Priority
The attitude towards corporate sustainability is shifting. What once started as “greenwashing” annual reports, is increasingly framing and shaping operating models, business processes, and even core products — sometimes driving the enterprise to new markets with unexplored opportunities. Source: Renewable Energy
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Australian Renewable Giant Snowy Hydro Mulls Raising A$2 Billion
Snowy Hydro Ltd., Australia’s largest hydropower producer, is considering raising as much as A$2 billion ($1.6 billion) by the end of 2018 for a project expansion, which will boost its 4,100 megawatt capacity by as much as 50 percent. Source: Renewable Energy
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The Future of Power-to-Gas Couldn’t Be Brighter
The objective of PtG technology is to enable the balance of supply and demand for power in electricity networks with renewable energy. Importantly, as the use of renewable energy continues to grow there will be an ever-increasing need to support ramping and smoothing of renewables and to enable storage of the over-production via transfer of…
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Puerto Rico School Ditches Grid for Solar-plus-Storage
Classrooms at the SU Matrullas school in Orocovis are now entirely powered by solar panels and battery storage systems supplied by Sonnen GmbH and local developer Pura Energia. Source: Renewable Energy
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Nissan Sees 2025 As Turning Point for Electric Cars
“We think that 2025 will be the turning point where the cost of an EV [electric vehicle] car, the same EV and internal combustion engine, will be the same,” he told the Financial Times. “That will be a turning point for the customer.” Nissan, through its global alliance with Renault and Mitsubishi, is the world’s…
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Patagonia Takes Corporate Giving to the Next Level for Climate Action
In this minicast, Patagonia launches an online platform in support of local action on climate change and visits one of the greenest U.S. cities to help introduce the new platform, called Action Works. Source: Renewable Energy
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Backbone for New England Offshore Wind Farms “Massachusetts Ocean Grid” Takes Shape
On Tuesday February 13, Anbaric Development Partners (ADP) announced that it had gained approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the right to develop a shared transmission system, which it says will enable Massachusetts to fully harness the potential of offshore wind power. Source: Renewable Energy