Green Energy

It is widely recognized that finance is one of the critical enablers of accelerating climate action. However, renewable energy deployment (particularly in developing countries) requires more financing than fossil fuel-based alternatives due to a combination of factors, such as higher upfront investment costs. This means that finance itself can become a barrier to mitigation investment, […]

HNU Energy CEO and super-geek Daniel “Dan” O’Connell has been helping Mauians install PV solar systems for nearly two decades, and in his spare time he has worked to develop his own battery that’s proving it’s worth in a worldwide search for energy storage solutions. O’Connell envisioned “a tank to store your electricity” akin to […]

The federal government is making a $389 million investment in New England’s power grid, with an emphasis on better storing and transmitting renewable energy throughout the region. It will use the largest battery system developed so far in the world in terms of energy capacity, according to a press release on the allocation. The effort […]

Stanford-led research reveals how water systems, from desalination plants to wastewater treatment facilities, could help make renewable energy more affordable and dependable. The study, published Sept. 27 in Nature Water, presents a framework to measure how water systems can adjust their energy use to help balance power grid supply and demand. “If we’re going to […]

For years, Nevada has put affordable energy on the back burner. Now, ratepayers are getting burned. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy recently put out research on energy bills. In Las Vegas, it found that a quarter of low-income households spend 12.6% or more of their families’ income on home energy. The median for […]

In a remote stretch of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert lies the site where white settlers and the U.S. government massacred the Newe people 11 times during the 19th century. Three of the slaughters are among the largest recorded massacres of Native Americans in U.S. history, with the worst killing an estimated 525 to 700 men, […]

As the country ramps up its stock of solar farms in the West, rural Nevada is bracing for impact. Especially so in one of the state’s most-strained water basins outside of Las Vegas. Following the release of the Bureau of Land Management’s updated Western Solar Plan, some in Nye County’s Amargosa Desert wrapped in a […]

Renewable energy generation in Europe has surged over 280% since 2000 and now accounts for more than 50% of the continent’s total power generation. Solar power has seen particularly strong growth in recent years due to significant cost declines. However, the rise of renewables has also led to challenges for the power industry, as the […]

Solar panels and wind turbines get a lot of attention in the current conversation about renewable energy. Meanwhile, hydropower is quietly, consistently producing large amounts of clean energy—and has been for more than a century. In fact, nearly 27% of all current renewable energy generation in the United States comes from hydroelectric operations. But in […]

A new way of making ammonia, by harnessing the unique power of liquid metal, could lead to significant cuts in carbon emissions caused by production of the widely-used chemical. Ammonia is used in fertilizer to grow much of our food, but also plays a role in clean energy as a carrier to safely transport hydrogen. The global […]