Yahoo News: India installed a record 10 gigawatts (GW) of solar electricity capacity in 2017-2018, twice the rate logged in the previous year and nearly double the country’s entire solar base, the US-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis said. The gains put India at 22 GW of total cumulative capacity and the trend […]
The World (BBC/PRI): Nationally, energy investors see the Navajo Generating Station as a kind of crystal ball, and they’re looking for a signal on how coal is going to fare in the future. Energy analyst David Schlissel said there are to key questions: “Financial viability, whether they can make a profit and what kind of […]
Indo-Asian News Service (IANS): People in Germany’s small towns and rural areas are turning to renewable energy in a process that has special lessons for countries like India. Learning how Germany’s citizen-owned, highly-decentralised energy transition, named Energiewende, is working to decarbonise the economy, could be most useful for India, the third-biggest solar installer after China […]
The Intercept: In the context of a long-running push to privatize the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, or PREPA, the most recent plan for which would see different pieces of the utility’s transmission, distribution, and generation capacity auctioned off to private bidders. He’ll meet with the utility — which is some $9 billion in debt […]
Bloomberg News: Peabody Energy Corp.—the nation’s biggest coal producer—is joining an American Indian tribe and a miners’ union in suing the Arizona water authority to keep a coal-fired power plant up and running. The lawsuit, if successful, would force a canal system that provides water to most of Arizona—the Central Arizona Project—to continue buying its […]
E&E ($): In a filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, the Hopi Tribe, Peabody Energy Corp. and the United Mine Workers of America argued that the Central Arizona Project is obligated under federal law to buy electricity generated by the Navajo Generating Station (NGS). The outcome of the court clash […]