Green Energy

What does an effective transition from fossil fuels to green energy look like? Ardent environmentalists prefer the fastest possible phaseout of coal, oil, and natural gas — even banning them if necessary — regardless of the costs. On the other end of the spectrum, “drill, baby, drill” regressives deny there’s any climate change caused by […]

The first of five planned West Virginia solar farms just came online – here’s why that’s significant for the state. 1 out of 5 new West Virginia solar farms FirstEnergy subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison have launched a solar farm on 80 acres at Fort Martin Power Station in Maidsville, West Virginia, north of Morgantown. […]

Changes have arrived to rooftop solar in Idaho, whether its proponents like it or not. Idaho Power, on the heels of gaining approval to raise its base electricity rates, got the green light from the Idaho Public Utilities Commission to overhaul its method of compensating households with rooftop solar panels for the excess energy they […]

Offshore wind turbines at two commercial-scale sites are now sending power to the U.S. grid. Moments before midnight on Tuesday, a single turbine near Martha’s Vineyard delivered 5 megawatts of renewable energy to the New England grid, developers said. The turbine is one out of 62 planned for Vineyard Wind 1, an offshore site owned […]

Rooftop solar is evolving. In many markets across the United States, net metering is actively being phased out, meaning that standalone solar arrays aren’t able to capture meaningful value for sending their excess electricity production to the grid in exchange for credits on their bill. As net metering credits phase out, home battery energy storage […]

It is sad to see that it is almost 2024 and we still have over six hundred million people in Africa without access to electricity. Distributed renewable energy plants can play a key role in increasing access to electricity in off-grid applications as well as offer crucial support in urban centers that have weak and […]

SunZia, a massive clean energy project in the US Southwest, has closed $11 billion non-recourse financing and launched full construction. Daniel Elkort, executive vice president at Pattern Energy, the project’s California-based developer, said about the milestone finance package: The size and scale of both the SunZia project and this multifaceted financing show that the renewable energy […]

A 230,000-panel solar field in rural Adams County will soon put the city of Philadelphia closer to its goal of powering all of its buildings with renewable energy by 2030. Spanning about 700 acres, and comprising about a dozen parcels in Straban Township near Gettysburg, the 80-megawatt solar field will provide city-owned buildings with 70 […]

There are many milestones to pass in the transition from a high to low-carbon sustainable energy system. There is the first hour without coal, or oil, or gas generation (or all of them together) and the point when the last coal, oil or gas power plant (or all of them together) are finally retired. Another […]

The astonishing thing about social media is some high school dropout in East Tanjikastan can sit in his mother’s basement and crank out posts designed to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt about electric cars, solar panels, wind turbines, or energy storage batteries and people who ordinarily question everything read that tripe and immediately assume it […]