Category: "Renewable Energy & Cleantech"
New Energy Narrative posts about renewable energy and clean technologies.
- Although they show a lot of potential, perovskites-based solar panels may never replace traditional silicon-based panels due to apparent durability and environmental issues
- The collapse of Australian engineering giant RCR Tomlinson has claimed another solar project: The 30MW, $60 million expansion of a large scale solar farm at Greenough River in Western Australia
- GE Renewable Energy has entered an $11 million, four-year research partnership with the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult program to help offshore wind maintenance crews maintain turbines remotely
- Grid Strategies report: Outdated wholesale market rules in the United States are preventing full participation by renewable energy firms, including wind and solar power providers
- Clean energy just took the crown away from the fossil fuels, the king of energy generation in the UK, for the first time since the Industrial Revolution
- The UK’s Committee on Climate Change, an influential panel of lawmakers in Parliament, is pushing for the government to develop hydrogen as a way to provide a green form of heat for industry and homes
- Sandwiching silicon between a solar cell and its metal contact has allowed researchers in Europe to break sunlight-to-electricity efficiency records, but can these tandem cells be mass produced?
- In a major milestone, the state of New Jersey has just installed its 100,000th solar power project, thanks to a landmark clean energy bill signed by Governor Murphy this past May
- The Montana Environmental Information Center is suing Montana’s Public Service Commission and NorthWestern Energy for not developing community renewable energy projects as spelled out in state law
- In its new three-year plan, Enel, the world’s largest private renewables player and Europe’s largest utility, plans to spend 80% of 27.5 billion euros on green operations and energy grids
