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Texas’ Power Price Spike and Designing Markets for a Carbon-Free Grid

The Texas power market is designed to play chicken with blackouts. Is the model sustainable in a high-renewables system?

7 hours ago by Matt DaPrato

Elon Musk’s Latest Plan for the Solar Market: Rentals

Tesla continues to search for a viable solar strategy after logging its lowest-ever quarterly installations in the second quarter.

6 hours ago by Emma Foehringer Merchant

GTM Squared

US Farmers Look to Harvest Solar Power

States such as California increasingly need to balance their agricultural riches with the growth of their solar markets.

8 hours ago by Emma Foehringer Merchant

Research Spotlight

The Energy Transition in 4 Charts

A peek at Wood Mackenzie’s latest outlooks for solar, wind energy storage and carbon emissions.

8 hours ago by Mike Munsell

California's untapped offshore wind market holds enormous promise and challenges.

California Community Choice Aggregator Sees Promise in Floating Offshore Wind

Monterey Bay Community Power is exploring the possibility of a huge floating offshore wind project with developers EnBW and Trident Winds.

3 days ago by Jeff St. John

GTM Squared Insights

Tri-State Generation, an Energy Transition Skeptic, Finally Gets With the Times

3 weeks ago by Emma Foehringer Merchant

Private Equity Wants In on Energy Storage Revenues

3 weeks ago by Julian Spector

Hawaii’s Plan to Use Dispatchable Renewables and Batteries to Replace Dirty Power Plants

3 weeks ago by Jeff St. John

August 5, 2019 Solar

Shout It From the Rooftops: Solar Delivers Far More Than Renewable Energy

37 by Emma Searson

Duke is moving its regulated utilities into the renewables development business.

August 6, 2019 Solar

Duke Drops Largest Solar Project in North Carolina Procurement — Its Own

5 by Julian Spector

Permits are in place for the proposed 400-megawatt/3,400-megawatt-hour facility. (Credit: Absaroka)

August 13, 2019 Energy Storage

Montana Developer Ready to Build Modern-Day Pumped Hydro Storage

85 by Julian Spector

08.13.19 Energy Storage

Montana Developer Ready to Build Modern-Day Pumped Hydro Storage

85 by Julian Spector

Offshore wind farms are now generating huge amounts of power of Europe's coasts. (Credit: Orsted)

08.14.19 Wind

6 Offshore Wind Farms the Size of Nuclear Power Plants

83 by Jason Deign

08.07.19 Energy

Trump Administration Moves to Finalize Weakening of Car Efficiency Standards

49 by Emma Foehringer Merchant

08.16.19 PV, EV, & Storage 4

How Electric Cars and Renewables Could Beat Oil

This week on The Energy Gang: The economics of oil are beginning to be challenged by EVs paired with wind and solar.

by Stephen Lacey

08.16.19 Policy 1

Scott Kelly shares his perspective on fighting climate change, having seen the challenge from the unique viewpoint of space.

Astronaut Scott Kelly: ‘What Are We Doing to This Planet?’

Political Climate sits down with NASA astronaut Scott Kelly to discuss technology, politics and the unique perspective that traveling to space offers on the climate crisis.

by Julia Pyper

08.16.19 Efficiency 22

Using Artificial Intelligence to Design More Efficient Heat Pumps

A new type of heat pump using micro-turbocompressors could be on the market within five years, researchers say.

by Justin Gerdes

Hawaiian Electric’s Landmark Integrated Grid Planning at the Crossroads

GTM Squared

Hawaiian Electric’s Landmark Integrated Grid Planning at the Crossroads

A flashpoint emerges in Hawaii’s ambitious efforts to incorporate distributed energy resources into its grid planning.

by Jeff St. John | August 16, 2019

06.19.19 PODCASTS

Will Geothermal Ever Boom Like Fracking?

On this week’s Energy Gang podcast: We look at a U.S. government plan to reinvigorate geothermal.

by Stephen Lacey

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08.15.19 Solar 5

California is poised for big residential solar growth.

Sunnova Partners With California Roofer Ahead of Solar Mandate

California’s residential solar law goes into effect in 2020, and providers are moving to capitalize on it.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant

08.15.19 Solar 2

Canadian Solar shares rose more than 10 percent on Wednesday after Q2 earnings were released.

Canadian Solar Boosts Annual Module Guidance, Shares Jump

The company is in “the most competitive position” in its history, says Canadian Solar CEO Shawn Qu.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant

08.15.19 30

Energy Vault Lands $110M From SoftBank’s Vision Fund for Gravity Storage

The investment is large by the standards of most startups, but it’s in keeping with the capital costs Energy Vault will face in scaling up its technology.

by Jeff St. John

08.15.19 Wind 0

Vestas is among the largest U.S. wind manufacturers, with several factories in Colorado.

Vestas Profit Falls as Trade Tariffs Bite Wind Supply Chain

Intense competition across the global wind industry is weighing on equipment suppliers and spurring consolidation.

by Karl-Erik Stromsta

08.15.19 Solar 8

Echoes of a bubble: Spain's renewables market took years to recover from its feed-in tariff fiasco.

Spain Moves to Prevent a Second Solar Bubble

Grid-connection applications for solar projects are rising by 15 gigawatts a month in a country with 40 gigawatts of total peak power demand.

by Jason Deign

08.14.19 0

A state grant will jump-start an EV charging program for Bay Area community choice aggregators, with other CCAs to follow.

California’s Community Choice Aggregators are Filling the Gaps in EV Charger Investment

CCAs haven’t invested as much as utilities in EV charging infrastructure. New state grants for Silicon Valley CCAs, munis will help close the gaps.

by Jeff St. John

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08.14.19 Grid Edge 1

Faraday's technology was described as an internet router for a renewables-centric grid.

Faraday Grid, the Transformer Technology Startup, Goes Bust

The much-hyped transformer technology developer is under the control of insolvency specialists in the U.K., a sharp turn from its recent shopping and hiring spree.

by Jason Deign

08.14.19 Solar 12