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Follow @EngelsAngle Shell will install 50,000 on-street electric vehicle chargers in the UK by 2025, the company announced on Wednesday. The rollout of charging stations will be done by ubitricity, which Shell acquired in February. Ubitricity — owner of the largest public EV charging network in the UK — embeds its technology into existing street…

Follow @EngelsAngle The first community solar program in the U.S. to automatically enroll residents is now active in Western New York. The community choice solar program has been made available to more than 3,800 households and small businesses in Brockport and Lima as part of Joule Community Power’s Finger Lakes Community Choice program. All eligible…

Follow @EngelsAngle The global push to produce all electricity from clean sources won’t be enough to meet the net-zero target of the Paris climate agreement, according to a new report from energy consultant DNV. DNV’s fifth annual Energy Transition Outlook comes two months before COP26, the climate summit of world leaders, in Glasgow. At COP21,…

For an economy and a culture that thrives on fast cars, fast food, and instant gratification for virtually everything, the very lengthy process for interconnecting renewable energy resources into the electric grid is frustrating, to say the least. In order to connect new generation resources, like wind or solar, to the transmission grid, a developer…

Contributed by Dr. Torill Bigg, Tunley Engineering As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. Two seemingly interchangeable terms often seen are ‘Carbon Neutral’ and ‘Net…

Follow @EngelsAngle Solar software company Raptor Maps released a guide that outlines steps and best practices for inspecting solar PV systems from manned aircraft. The 18-page report supplements training materials that the company previously released for solar PV inspections using drones. “Solar asset owners and operators have a right to specify the quality of work…

Follow @EngelsAngle Solar PV manufacturer Silfab Solar has doubled its manufacturing capacity in the U.S. with the launch of a new facility in Washington state. The company’s highly-automated Burlington facility, located just 24 miles north of its Bellingham PV module assembly plant, is focusing on the Silfab Prime 370wt series module. “Silfab has a long…

Follow @EngelsAngle Volvo has received the world’s first shipment of fossil-free steel from Swedish manufacturer SSAB. The steel was reduced using 100% fossil-free hydrogen, instead of coal and coke. SSAB said the trial delivery is an important step to developing a completely fossil-free value chain for iron and steelmaking. “The first fossil-free steel in the…

Follow @EngelsAngle UK investment firm Octopus Group, through Octopus Australia, has acquired the 180 MW Dulacca Wind Farm project in Queensland from RES, the company announced Tuesday. Once completed, the Dulacca Wind Farm will feature 43 wind turbines to generate enough electricity to power approximately 124,000 homes. The project aims to contribute to the Queensland…

By Renee J. Matthews, Cito Energy Group Geothermal Energy Potential in Western Canada There’s a wave of increased interest and investment in geothermal energy as a potentially viable source of renewable power. From the Greek: γῆ (gê), meaning Earth + θερμός (thermós), meaning hot Geothermal energy is naturally occurring heat that exists within the interior…