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The Biden-Sanders climate proposals require a faster build-out than state and utility goals for zero-carbon electricity.

Can the Clean Energy Industry Deliver on the Biden-Sanders Climate Plan?

The campaign’s unity task force wants 100 percent carbon-free power by 2035.

Court decision removes barriers to aggregated batteries playing in wholesale markets across the country.

‘Enormous Step’ for Energy Storage as Court Upholds FERC Order 841, Opening Wholesale Markets

Federal regulators — not utilities and states — get to decide how batteries engage in transmission-scale power markets, the appeals court rules.

5 hours ago by Jeff St. John

Grid Edge Mega-Trends: Bridging the Distributed Energy-Wholesale Market Divide

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Grid Edge Mega-Trends: Bridging the Distributed Energy-Wholesale Market Divide

State and federal policies are demanding a role for DERs in the transmission grid, but technical, regulatory and economic challenges abound.

8 hours ago by Jeff St. John

Green pastures: Switzerland's Meyer Burger plans to reopen a former SolarWorld module factory in Freiburg.

Germany’s Fallen ‘Solar Valley’ Sees New Life as Meyer Burger Buys Former SolarWorld Factory

Can the combination of increasing automation, recovery funds and surging local demand rejuvenate Europe’s once-vaunted solar manufacturing sector?

6 hours ago by John Parnell

Industry Perspective

Why Advocates of 100% Clean Energy Must Overcome the ‘Resource Adequacy’ Challenge

Renewables have won the cost battle. The next fight is convincing grid planners that solar and wind don’t threaten reliability, the author writes.

1 day ago by Eric Gimon

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Top 5 US Storage Owners: NextEra Saw the Potential Early and Never Stopped Building

1 day ago by Julian Spector

Tough Questions for Massachusetts in Weighing Solar Development Against Land Conservation

4 days ago by Emma Foehringer Merchant

Grid Edge Mega-Trends: The Challenge of Integrating Distributed Energy Resources on the Grid

1 week ago by Jeff St. John

Orison's battery panel packs 2.2 kilowatt-hours, and homeowners can plug it in by hand. (Image: Orison)

June 29, 2020 Energy Storage

What If Consumers Could Just Buy Batteries and Plug Them In?

33 by Julian Spector

A combined Sunrun/Vivint Solar would be the third-largest owner of U.S. solar capacity. (Credit: Sunrun)

July 7, 2020 Solar

Sunrun to Acquire Vivint Solar, Creating Home Solar Giant

8 by Emma Foehringer Merchant and Karl-Erik Stromsta

Tucson Electric Power is exiting its stake in coal-fired plants including the now-closed Navajo Generating Station.

June 29, 2020 Energy

2 More Western Utilities Move to Close Coal Plants Early, Shifting to Renewables and Storage

31 by Jeff St. John

The push to use natural-gas-based blue hydrogen as a

07.01.20 Energy

Europe’s Green Hydrogen Revolution Is Turning Blue

72 by John Parnell

The more a mission threatens an existing market, the harder it will be to launch and sustain, the author writes.

06.26.20 Energy

The First Moonshot Didn’t Disrupt an Incumbent Industry. The Climate Moonshot Must

49 by Sara Hastings-Simon

Massive green hydrogen facility would be part of Saudi Arabia's planned Neom

07.07.20 Energy

World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Project Unveiled in Saudi Arabia

44 by John Parnell

07.09.20 Solar 1

PacifiCorp plans a major wind build-out in Wyoming and solar-storage projects across the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Northwest states.

PacifiCorp Opens 4.3GW Renewables and Storage Procurement

The Berkshire Hathaway-owned utility’s largest-ever clean energy procurement opens up huge opportunities in Northwest and Rocky Mountain states.

by Jeff St. John

07.09.20 Energy 15

The EU's hydrogen strategy prioritizes the green stuff but also encourages blue in the near term.

European Union Sets Gigawatt-Scale Targets for Green Hydrogen

The EU wants 40 gigawatts of electrolyzers installed within its borders by 2030, up from the 250 megawatts in place globally today.

by John Parnell

Top 5 US Storage Owners: NextEra Saw the Potential Early and Never Stopped Building

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Top 5 US Storage Owners: NextEra Saw the Potential Early and Never Stopped Building

In this final installment in our countdown of the leading U.S. battery fleet owners, we come to the biggest kahuna of them all.

by Julian Spector | July 9, 2020

07.09.20 Policy 1

How are pipelines playing politically ahead of the 2020 election?

Beginning of the End for New Oil and Gas Pipelines?

On this week’s Political Climate, we discuss recent pipeline-project setbacks against the backdrop of President Trump’s multiyear effort to expand oil and gas development.

by Julia Pyper

06.05.20 PODCASTS

A ‘Just Transition’ for Fossil Fuel Workers

This week on The Interchange podcast: If we phase out fossil fuels, what happens to the industry’s workforce?

by Stephen Lacey

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07.08.20 Solar 0

CapDyn has relationships with Tenaska and developer 8minute Solar. (Image: 8minute)

Capital Dynamics and Tenaska Partner on 4.8 Gigawatts of Solar Development

Nebraska-based Tenaska is finding growing success developing renewables projects for other big investors.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant

07.08.20 Wind 10

The battle over renewables-linked transmission lines continues to rage across the U.S.

Grain Belt Express Transmission Line Wins Key Legal and Policy Battles in Missouri

Court approves Invenergy’s purchase of $2.3 billion transmission project, which would carry 4 gigawatts of Midwest wind power to PJM’s grid.

by Jeff St. John

07.08.20 Wind 1

Formosa 1, Taiwan's first offshore wind farm. The country wants 15.5 gigawatts by 2035. (Credit: Ørsted)

Microchip Giant TSMC Signs ‘World’s Largest’ Corporate Renewables Deal — for Offshore Wind

With its falling cost and high capacity factors, Ørsted and analysts expect more big corporate deals for offshore wind.

by John Parnell

Manufacturing Europe’s Green Deal: Where Will All Those Batteries Come From?

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Manufacturing Europe’s Green Deal: Where Will All Those Batteries Come From?

Over the coming weeks, we’ll look at the companies poised to make the building blocks of Europe’s net-zero economy. First up: energy storage.

by John Parnell | July 8, 2020

07.08.20 Sponsored Media 0

An Anxious Accountant’s Journey to the Top

In this special podcast, we discuss how one finance expert overcame his anxieties and flourished in renewable energy.

by GTM Creative Strategies

07.08.20 Energy Storage 3

U.S. firms are developing solid-state technology, but the batteries may be manufactured in Asia and Europe.

Investors Still Betting on Next Big Energy Storage Technology: Solid-State Batteries

Solid-state batteries could be safer and more energy-dense than lithium-ion products are today. The improved technology could hit the market by the mid-2020s, analysts say.

by Jason Deign

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While demand response programs have evolved in recent years from one-way load control programs, the emergence of the internet of things (IoT) and sophisticated software control platforms has created new opportunities to harness and aggregate DR resources in ways unavailable less than a decade ago.

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This 20-page report highlights several of the most promising innovations the solar industry has experienced or undertaken in the past several months.

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5 Breakthrough Innovations for the US Solar Industry

This 20-page report highlights several of the most promising innovations the solar industry has experienced or undertaken in the past several months.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant | July 7, 2020

07.07.20 Solar 0

What’s It Like to Be a Renewable Energy Project Developer?

We’re asking people with cleantech jobs to tell us what they do all day. Next up: K. Harley McDonald, senior business developer at Avangrid Renewables.

by Karl-Erik Stromsta

07.07.20 Energy 44

World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Project Unveiled in Saudi Arabia

Air Products, the world’s leading hydrogen producer, plans to power a huge green hydrogen plant using 4 gigawatts of Saudi renewable electricity.

by John Parnell

07.07.20 Solar 8

Sunrun to Acquire Vivint Solar, Creating Home Solar Giant

UPDATED: The leading U.S. home solar installer will gobble up its biggest rival, in a significant consolidation for the industry.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant and Karl-Erik Stromsta

07.06.20 Energy 23

Duke and Dominion canceled their Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Both are investing heavily in renewables.

As Fossil Fuel Pipelines Fall to Opposition, Utilities See Renewable Energy as Safe Bet

Atlantic Coast and Dakota Access pipeline woes underscore trends pushing utilities toward clean power as a less risky business.

by Jeff St. John

07.06.20 Solar 2

Plugging in: Foreign clean energy companies are increasingly targeting China's market.

BP Links With JinkoPower to Bring Clean Energy to China’s Companies

Analysts expect more renewable energy deals from BP in the coming months as it prepares the details of its net-zero by 2050 strategy.

by John Parnell

Tough Questions for Massachusetts in Weighing Solar Development Against Land Conservation

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Tough Questions for Massachusetts in Weighing Solar Development Against Land Conservation

As solar projects proliferate, even some green-minded communities are anxious about the impact on open land.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant | July 6, 2020

07.05.20 Energy 11

The 600-mile Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline would have run through three states, cutting across the Appalachian Trail.

Dominion Sells Gas Business and Cancels Atlantic Coast Pipeline

Dominion and Duke Energy will walk away from the controversial pipeline project as U.S. utilities grapple with the future role of natural gas.

by Jeff St. John

07.03.20 Grid Edge 0

Production of Volkswagen's long-awaited ID.3 electric vehicle is now underway. (Credit: Volkswagen)

Europe’s Demand for Electric Cars May Get a Jolt From COVID-19 Response

Stimulus packages, falling costs and rising environmental awareness may rev Europe’s EV market quicker than expected, analysts say.

by John Parnell

07.02.20 Solar 4

If approved by federal regulators, NERA's petition would cast a deep shadow over the U.S. rooftop solar market.

Group Seeking to Overturn State Net Metering Reveals Member With Utility Ties

The only publicly disclosed member of anti-net-metering group NERA happens to run a utility consultancy in New England.

by Jeff St. John

Germany's Fallen 'Solar Valley' Sees New Life as Meyer Burger Buys Former SolarWorld Factory

PacifiCorp Opens 4.3GW Renewables and Storage Procurement

Why Advocates of 100% Clean Energy Must Overcome the 'Resource Adequacy' Challenge

What the Coming Wave of Distributed Energy Resources Means for the US Grid

Europe's Demand for Electric Cars May Get a Jolt From COVID-19 Response

4 Things PG&E Must Do to Survive and Thrive as It Exits Bankruptcy

'Enormous Step' for Energy Storage as Court Upholds FERC Order 841, Opening Wholesale Markets

Manufacturing Europe’s Green Deal: Where Will All Those Batteries Come From?

Investors Still Betting on Next Big Energy Storage Technology: Solid-State Batteries

Grain Belt Express Transmission Line Wins Key Legal and Policy Battles in Missouri

Microchip Giant TSMC Signs 'World's Largest' Corporate Renewables Deal — for Offshore Wind

Vattenfall Wins Approval for Huge Offshore Wind Farm as UK Struggles to Accelerate Market

10 Rooftop Solar and Storage Predictions for the Next Decade

3 Predictions for US Renewables and Storage Markets in 2025

The Interchange: Live From Home!

Radical Transparency into PPAs & Supplier Agreements to Capitalize on Opportunities & Reduce Risk

How to Remove Forecast Uncertainties for Better DER Planning

Leveraging the Cloud for a Resilient, Secure, and Customer-Centric Utility

Can the Clean Energy Industry Deliver on the Biden-Sanders Climate Plan?

‘Enormous Step’ for Energy Storage as Court Upholds FERC Order 841, Opening Wholesale Markets

Grid Edge Mega-Trends: Bridging the Distributed Energy-Wholesale Market Divide

Germany’s Fallen ‘Solar Valley’ Sees New Life as Meyer Burger Buys Former SolarWorld Factory

Why Advocates of 100% Clean Energy Must Overcome the ‘Resource Adequacy’ Challenge

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PacifiCorp Opens 4.3GW Renewables and Storage Procurement

European Union Sets Gigawatt-Scale Targets for Green Hydrogen

Top 5 US Storage Owners: NextEra Saw the Potential Early and Never Stopped Building

Beginning of the End for New Oil and Gas Pipelines?

Capital Dynamics and Tenaska Partner on 4.8 Gigawatts of Solar Development

Grain Belt Express Transmission Line Wins Key Legal and Policy Battles in Missouri

Microchip Giant TSMC Signs ‘World’s Largest’ Corporate Renewables Deal — for Offshore Wind

Manufacturing Europe’s Green Deal: Where Will All Those Batteries Come From?

An Anxious Accountant’s Journey to the Top

Investors Still Betting on Next Big Energy Storage Technology: Solid-State Batteries

5 Breakthrough Innovations for the US Solar Industry

What’s It Like to Be a Renewable Energy Project Developer?

World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Project Unveiled in Saudi Arabia

Sunrun to Acquire Vivint Solar, Creating Home Solar Giant

As Fossil Fuel Pipelines Fall to Opposition, Utilities See Renewable Energy as Safe Bet

BP Links With JinkoPower to Bring Clean Energy to China’s Companies

Tough Questions for Massachusetts in Weighing Solar Development Against Land Conservation

Dominion Sells Gas Business and Cancels Atlantic Coast Pipeline

Europe’s Demand for Electric Cars May Get a Jolt From COVID-19 Response

Group Seeking to Overturn State Net Metering Reveals Member With Utility Ties