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Demand For Electricity To Climb As World Gets Hotter

In a new study by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, researchers calculated the changes in energy demand that hotter temperatures will tr…

Distributed Generation

Distributed Energy Resources to Grow 15.9% CAGR

Basic economics, local electricity prices and government incentives are driving the growth of distributed energy resources, including microgrids and solar-plus-…

Solar Power Plant

MGE to Build a Second Large Solar Project for Wisconsin Shared Solar Program

Madison Gas and Electric (MGE) received approval from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin to expand its popular Shared Solar program with a second, large…

EV Market

BYD Adds Bus Manufacturing Capacity In North America With New Canadian Plant

New energy company BYD is taking another step into the lucrative North American bus market with the announcement of a new bus plant in Newmarket, Ontario, Canad…

Thermal Fuel

How Fuel Availability at Power Plants Moved from Scarcity to Sufficiency

Prices in the spot electricity market have since dropped to unusually low levels, touching 1 per unit this week. Average prices in May, the peak summer month, w…

The U.S. Energy Storage Association

ESA is the national trade association dedicated to energy storage, working toward a more resilient, efficient, sustainable and affordable electricity grid – as…

Nuclear Power Plant

Why Nuclear Power Plants Cost so Much—and What Can be Done about in

Despite a reduction in the rate of global nuclear energy deployment, nuclear power continues to be a promising solution to both the increasing demand for electr…

International Energy Agency

International Energy Agency is founded in 1974, the IEA was initially designed to help countries co-ordinate a collective response to major disruptions in the s…

Thermal Plant

South Korea Fires Up On Renewables, to Close More Coal Plants

As renewable energy powers up in South Korea, coal-fired generation, long the bedrock of the country's electricity supply, is being tapped to give up room.

Renewables Produce 5% of Peru’s Power in May

Peru’s non-conventional renewable energy power plants generated 5% of the country’s electricity in May, the energy ministry informed on Friday.

Coal Mine

US Renewable Energy Capacity Beats Coal for the First Time

Coal's downward trend has been ongoing since its peak in 2008 and has no end in sight. Coal consumption has dropped by 39 percent to the lowest level in 40 year…

Canada Can't Get Its Pipeline Problem Under Control

Alberta’s oil and gas industry has had a very, very rough year. With a major pipeline infrastructure deficit and major delays and setbacks for all new pipeline…

Solar Power Plant

Vietnamese firm completes 40MW solar project in Binh Thuan

Duc Thanh Mui Ne company has completed a 40MW solar PV plant at Phan Thiet city in the south-central Vietnamese province of Binh Thuan, according to government …

Coal Power

Renewable Energy Capacity in the US Tips Past Coal for the First Time

In April, the United States’ renewable energy capacity tipped past coal for the first time, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Thermal Plant

UK Energy Supplier SSE To Close Its Last Coal-Fired Power Plant

UK energy provider SSE Plc said on Thursday that it is proposing to close its last coal-fired power plant in the country by March 2020, amid a national and inte…