Solar, storage and active energy management will be key to innovative eco district project
A Spokane, Washington-based eco-district that the partners say will be home to the smartest five blocks in the world.
Morning Brief: Bloom Energy shares fall drastically, 212 MW coming to Knoxville
Also in the brief: Brookfield Renewable Partners and TerraForm Power are set to become one, Diversified Communications acquires Energy Storage North America, 4.3 MW have been proposed in Ellsworth, Maine and more.
The world’s top banks remain committed to financing fossil fuels
A new report released by BankTrack, Oil Change International, Sierra Club and others takes a look at the trends in fossil fuel financing by the worlds top banks since the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement, grading each on the strength of their anti-fossil policies and habits.
The good news: The US added 13.3 GW of solar in 2019, beating wind and gas in new capacity
You know the bad news. Here are five takeaways from the pre-COVID-19 U.S. solar industry. As for how the coronavirus will impact 2020 foreacasts, supply chains, component costs and project timelines, stay safe and stay tuned.
Avalon and redT unite in $70 million merger of vanadium redox flow battery startups
Two vanadium redox startups join to take on the $0 billion flow-battery market.
SunPower to sell 11 MW of capacity in New England’s grid
SunPower has joined Sunrun in committing to sell capacity to the New England grid by aggregating household solar installations.
How automation is changing the solar interconnection process in California
Want to speed up project development timelines and lower costs? Automate the process, pleads Tam Hunt, a renewable energy lawyer and policy expert.
Morning Brief: TVA solicits 200 MW of renewables, Sungrow supplies the Wright project
Also in the brief: 14 MW approved in Maine, 20 MW approved in Indiana, a molten aluminum thermal energy storage system and more.
Cheap renewables putting $639 billion of new coal investments at risk
The Carbon Tracker Initiative crunched some numbers and discovered that more than half a trillion dollars worth of coal investments are at serious risk due to the declining cost of renewables.
Tesla claims its New York factory built 4 MW of solar roof tiles last week, ‘enough for 1,000 homes’
Although every box of shingles we examined came from Changzhou, China, not the factory in New York.
