Laurie Guevara-Stone Monday, July 27, 2015 – 12:45am As most Alaskans can attest, energy in The Last Frontier is expensive. The average residential electricity rate of more than 18 cents per kWh is a full 50 percent higher than the national average, ranking among the highest in the country. That’s in part because outside the … Continue reading How one Alaskan island went 100% renewable
Judge Shuts Down Attack On Colorado’s Ambitious Clean Energy Law Colorado’s ambitious renewable energy standard will remain in place thanks to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which on Monday shielded the law from a legal attack by a right-wing litigation group. Writing for a three-judge panel, U.S. Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch affirmed that the … Continue reading Judge Shuts Down Attack On Colorado’s Ambitious Clean Energy Law
Alabama Power proposes up to 500 megawatts in renewable energy projects, including solar Alabama Power petitioned the Alabama Public Service Commission last month for permission to install up to 500 megawatts of renewable energy projects, including solar power, company spokesman Michael Sznajderman confirmed Tuesday. Sznajderman said the company is seeking a way to provide renewable … Continue reading #Alabama_Power proposes up to 500 megawatts in renewable energy projects, including solar
Facebook’s new data center will run entirely on renewable energy The second-most visited website in the world is building another data center, this time in Fort Worth, Texas, Facebook announced this week. This will be Facebook’s fifth data center, following ones in Oregon, North Carolina, Iowa, and Sweden. Facebook says that, like its Iowa one, … Continue reading #Facebook’s new data center will run entirely on renewable energy
Huge Hurdles for Renewable Power Storage A key mechanism for fighting climate change, some environmental activists and politicians say, is to increase the amount of electricity produced from renewable sources that do not emit carbon dioxide (CO2). As nearly everyone knows, a key problem with wind and solar power is their intermittency, which makes those … Continue reading Huge Hurdles for Renewable Power Storage
ISO-NE: Renewables are driving up capacity market prices The rise of renewables in New England is keeping prices down in electricity markets, but at the same time driving up costs in the capacity market. According to the ISO, traditional generation sources are forced to price their capacity higher to offset a loss of revenue in … Continue reading ISO-NE: Renewables are driving up capacity market prices
Americans using most renewable energy since 1930s The last time Americans used as much renewable energy as they do now was in the 1930s, when the burning of wood was more widespread. (Tweet this) That’s according to recent analysis by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, released on Thursday. The study found that renewable energy accounted … Continue reading Americans using most renewable energy since 1930s
Duke developing 2 MW storage facility for PJM frequency regulation Duke, the largest electric utility in the country, is continuing to explore energy storage solutions and said it believes it owns almost 15% of the installed, grid-connected storage in the United States. The 2 MW project is aimed at enhancing reliability and grid stability across … Continue reading Duke developing 2 MW storage facility for PJM frequency regulation
Intel Moves To Top HQ With Renewable Energy One of the world’s largest semiconductor chip manufacturers, Intel is used to being on the top. Now, the American company is swapping things around, by making a bold move on top of their own headquarters in Santa Clara, with the installation of one of the world’s largest … Continue reading #Intel Moves To Top HQ With Renewable Energy
Graph Of The Day: How Utilities See Themselves In 2030 Power utility businesses around the world are finally, and rapidly, waking up to the enormous changes taking place in the global energy market. That is what we have been noticing here in Australia, and that is the major message from the latest PwC global power … Continue reading Graph Of The Day: How Utilities See Themselves In 2030
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