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Around the world, high oil prices tend to accelerate the shift to renewable energy and electric vehicles. In Saudi Arabia, they have the opposite effect. Over the past six years, the Saudis have announced investments of more than $350 billion aimed at making the sun-drenched kingdom the, well, Saudi Arabia of renewable energy. Source: Renewable…

Last week, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that the New York State Public Service Commission approved two initiatives to increase New York’s energy efficiency and energy storage targets. Source: Renewable Energy

Three companies bid a record-shattering $405.1 million to nab U.S. rights to build offshore wind farms near Massachusetts on Friday, a testament to the surging appeal of renewable power and investors’ confidence in state demand for it. Source: Renewable Energy

General Electric Co. is set to close out one of its worst years since the financial crisis, and 2019 may be another precarious one. Source: Renewable Energy

The Hydropower Sustainability Guidelines on Good International Industry Practice, released yesterday, present a definition of the processes and outcomes relating to good international practice in the hydropower sector.   Source: Renewable Energy

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has won an order from Enel Russia for 201 MW of wind turbines. Source: Renewable Energy

One of the first unbiased, major comprehensive reviews of blockchain has concluded that the technology is “actually delivering on its promises in a number of areas directly related to energy”. Source: Renewable Energy

Advisory and certification company DNV GL has launched a new mobile laboratory service for the onsite testing of PV modules in India. Source: Renewable Energy

Italy’s Five Star Movement used to rave about towns like Montieri, a village in the verdant Tuscan foothills that burns little coal or natural gas. Instead, the local power plant harnesses steam rising naturally from hot springs deep underground to generate electricity. Source: Renewable Energy

Bloated by debt, bled by corruption and battered by structurally declining sales, South African power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. is facing what’s known in the industry as a “death spiral.” Source: Renewable Energy