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Solar Company

NV Energy Gets Green Light for Massive Solar-Battery Projects

Nevada regulators have given a green light to utility NV Energy’s plan to add nearly 1.2 gigawatts of solar and 590 megawatts of batteries, underscoring a broa…

Coal Power

What does a Sunset Coal Industry Tell Oil Producers About Peak Demand?

Coal has been the main fuel of industrialization over the past century and a half. To this day, it remains a key feedstock for power generation and in making st…

Electricity Transmission

Nexans to Begin Laying Cable to Syros Under Aegean Sea

Top officials from the Independent Power Transmission Operator SA (IPTO or ADMIE) of Greece and contractor Nexans SA, based in France, announced yesterday in La…

Electrocaloric Heat Pumps Promise Refrigerant-free Cooling

Six Fraunhofer institutes are joining forces on a newly launched project, ElKaWe (for Electrocaloric Heat Pumps) aiming to develop efficient solid-state and ref…

Energy Conservation And The Climate Crisis

In a recent “Deep State” article, Free Press reporter Lance Tapley argued that energy conservation could help us get off “the road to world ruin” from globa…

Coal Power

Big European Banks Face Call to End Funding for Firms Building Coal-fired Plants

Some of Europe’s biggest banks are being challenged by environmental groups to sever all lending to utilities which they say are still developing new coal-fire…

Change of Energy Consumption Habits from The Mid-1850s to The Present

Various studies from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) provide a glimpse into changing individual energy consumption habits from the mid-1850s to t…

Gas power plant

Hong Kong to Invest 500 Million Dollars to Build Two LNG Power Stations

Hong Kong based CNTIC VPower YGI Limited is planning to invest over US$500 million to build a 400-megawatt LNG fired power station in Thaketa Township and a 150…

Coal Company

One of the Biggest U.S. Coal Companies Filed for Bankruptcy

A judge approved a bankruptcy reorganization for one of the biggest U.S. coal companies Thursday amid ongoing uncertainty about how its mines will be bonded in …

Gas power plant

Gas Should Play An Increasing Role in Meeting Sub-Saharan Africa's Demand for Power

There are 13 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa currently consuming gas for power generation and ten of those countries generate power from their own domestic gas …

European Cities Commit Commit to Net Zero Carbon Buildings

On 4 December 2019, leading European cities and companies pledged to slash carbon emissions from their buildings to net zero. Helsinki, Finland and Valladolid, …

Solar Power Panel

Carlson Electric will Install 100-kW Solar System at Wisconsin Horseradish Farm

Huntsinger Farms, the world’s largest grower and processor of horseradish and the parent company of Silver Spring Foods, has won a $28,902.60 Focus on Energy g…

Solar Company

Australia’s Biggest Businesses Could Deliver “A Yallourn” of New Wind And Solar

ustralian companies that have committed to source 100 per cent of their electricity from renewable energy now represent almost one quarter of the value of the A…

EV Market

How India Will Try To Turn 200 Million Vehicles Electric In Just Six Years

In September 2017, India’s Minister of Road Transport and Highways provoked outrage when he told an audience of carmakers that he would require all of India’s…

Solar Technology

Saving the Mekong With Floating Solar Power

For two decades or more, alarms have been sounding for the Mekong Delta. It is being hammered by climate change, by a proliferation of upstream dams, by unsusta…