In some ways, installing solar panels is unlike other home improvement projects. Adding renewable energy sources to your house has an aspect of social good to it, because you’re using cleaner energy to power your lifestyle, reducing your energy and pollution footprint. And solar energy can also directly impact your budget by lowering the price […]
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Newly Completed Solar And Battery Project, The Largest Of Its Kind In The U.S., Comes Online: ‘This Is A Pretty Big Deal’
The largest solar and battery storage project in the United States has just come online. The 4,660-acre project — named Edwards & Sanborn and developed, owned, and operated by Terra-Gen — is located in the Mojave desert in Kern County, California. It consists of 875 megawatts (MW) of solar and 3,320 megawatt-hours (MWh) of energy […]
This Year’s Super Bowl Stadium Is Powered by Renewable Energy
When the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers face off in Las Vegas this Sunday, they’ll be doing so under lights powered by renewable energy. Allegiant Stadium, this year’s Super Bowl host, gets 100% of its power from renewable sources. The stadium actually achieved that milestone in October, according to a press release from […]
Cheap solar panels from China are all over Europe – and everyone is freaking out
Europe is installing more solar panels than ever before, thanks to a flood of cheap Chinese solar panels, driving installations by 40% last year. But it comes at a hefty cost: Local solar manufacturers are on the brink of a total collapse that could happen within weeks. The European Union is considering what steps to […]
Can solar geoengineering save the world?
The concept of solar geoengineering—blocking the sun’s radiation to slow Earth’s warming—is no longer just the realm of science fiction. In 2023, the U.S. government and the UN released reports on the topic. Whether or not solar geoengineering can save the world is up for debate, and Tony Harding, an assistant professor in the School […]
In a ‘monumental shift’, EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend
Europe’s coal electricity generation tanked by 26% and gas by 15% in 2023, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember. That collapse resulted in an impressive 19% reduction in the EU’s power sector emissions. What’s more, for the first time, wind power, which grew by 18%, surpassed gas, which only accounted for […]
The world is moving toward an energy transition — but Big Oil is reluctant to give up fossil fuels
Countries may be moving toward green energy, but Big Oil is hardly all in. On Friday, two impact-oriented funds dropped a climate proposal intended to go to a ExxonMobil (XOM) shareholder vote after the Houston-based oil giant filed a lawsuit to remove the measure from its proxy ballot. In the complaint, the oil producer said […]
The US Space Force Is Also Catching Space Solar Fever
The idea of beaming clean energy down to Earth from orbiting arrays of solar panels seemed pretty wacky when it first crossed the CleanTechnica radar. However, the technology building blocks are already at hand. It’s just a matter of scaling, systems integration, and adjustments for space-hardiness. That sounds simple enough, but many hands have been trying to […]
Is Renewable Energy Actually Making Us Rely More on Fossil Fuels?
Renewables such as wind and solar are intermittent and largely unpredictable energy sources, with rapid swings in output from one minute to the next. This creates major challenges for operators of the nation’s electricity grid, because supply must equal demand, and the supply “curve” in a given area never tracks the output from intermittent renewable […]
Survey finds the farther away wind turbines are, the better they are accepted
A recent study based on a public participation survey shows that a long distance to wind farms increases positive attitudes towards them and wind power. Existing wind turbines are considered more acceptable than those under planning. Wind turbines are more acceptable close to a regular home than a vacation home which may present challenges in […]
