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Electrek: Daimler, through its subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Energy and with partners, is turning a coal power plant into a large energy storage facility using over a thousand modules from its electric car battery packs. Like Tesla and its Tesla Energy division, Mercedes-Benz is leveraging its experience with battery packs for electric cars into making stationary energy […]
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Recharge: The Indian government set 5 GW and 30 GW offshore wind targets after an initial expressions of interest process (EOI) attracted a roll-call of global industry players including sector leader Orsted, a clutch of European utilities, local groups ReNew Power and Suzlon, and oil majors Equinor and Shell. The country’s Ministry of New and […]
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PV Magazine: If at first you don’t succeed, go directly to the people. More than eight months after Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval (R) vetoed a bill that would have increased Nevada’s renewable energy mandate to 40% by 2030, clean energy advocates have succeeded in getting enough signatures to bring an even more ambitious mandate directly […]
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Reuters: FRANKFURT—Major German power and gas grid firms Amprion and Open Grid Europe (OGE) unveiled plans on Wednesday to jointly build large power-to-gas (ptg) plants next decade, seeking to harness a new technology to help store and transport renewable energy. The two said they had presented the proposals to Germany’s energy regulator, the Federal Network […]
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Greentech Media: Renewable energy development behemoth Macquarie is eyeing a floating turbine project in South Korea as interest in offshore wind grows across the Asia-Pacific region. The developer is reportedly partnering with South Korea’s Gyeongbuk Floating Offshore Wind Power for a 1-gigawatt project located around 30 miles from Pohang and Ulsan. Robert Liew, senior analyst […]
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Houston Chronicle: More than 300,000 miles of natural gas transmission lines crisscross the United States, fueling electricity and industrial plants and heating homes, while also providing an alluring target for hackers looking to disrupt the American economy. Now those pipelines are at the center of a debate in Washington about the future of the power […]
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West Virginia Public Radio: For generations, coal power has fueled American prosperity. But for each shovelful thrown into the furnaces, a pile of ash was left in its place. Today, as coal’s dominance in the power sector wanes, those piles of ash have grown into mountains as coal ash became one of the largest waste […]
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Grantham Foundation: I have met more investment committees than I care to think about. Perhaps a couple of thousand. There is a no more conservative group on the planet than an investment committee. You could be forgiven for thinking that if you cough at an investment committee they will think they are ruined! So if […]
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In its version of a bill to privatize the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the Puerto Rico legislature has improved some on Governor Ricardo Rosselló’s original proposal, but lawmakers are ultimately failing the Puerto Rican people every bit as badly as Rosselló has. We’ve criticized the governor’s original privatization proposal for essentially aiming to set […]
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The East African: Tanzania has licensed a subsidiary of Australia’s Windlab Ltd to build 300 MW Miombo Hewani wind farm in the central part of the country. Windlab said the project will be undertaken in phases with the initial part using up $300 million for 100 MW comprising up to 34 wind turbines and a […]
IEEFA report: Poland’s biggest utility is risking financial instability by doubling down on coal-fired generation
New EU emissions regulations raise compliance issues at PGE; Outdated business model may cost billions; ‘An accelerated deployment of renewables’ makes more senseJune 13, 2018 (IEEFA) – New air pollution regulations coupled with rising carbon prices put Poland’s biggest utility, PGE, at serious risk of financial disarray if it continues to pursue a coal-heavy upgrade strategy, concludes a report published today by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. A strategic shift toward a renewable energy-based […]