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Market Analysis

Study Finds Climate Impact of Hydropower Varies Widely

A new study by a team at Environmental Defense Fund finds that the climate impact of hydropower facilities varies widely throughout the world and over time, wit…

Boralex Announces Commissioning of 16-MW Yellow Falls Hydroelectric Station

Boralex Inc. has announced the commercial commissioning of its 16-MW Yellow Falls hydroelectric station, under the terms of a price-indexed power purchase agree…

Global Potential for Tidal Power is Up to 1000 GW

Global potential for tidal power is huge, and the World Energy Council has estimated that up to 1,000GW of marine energy could be installed by mid-century – eq…

A Global Power & Energy Elite Project: Canada’s First P3 Hydropower Project

The first public-private partnership (P3) project in the hydropower sector in Canada houses a brand new underground powerhouse built to minimize the environment…

Thermal Plant

Siemens Overhauls Turbine at 794-MW Gas-Fired Plant in Hungary

Siemens has worked with owners to complete a major overhaul at an Hungarian gas-fired power plant. The German-based power manufacturer collaborated with MET Ass…

Wind Turbine

Crazy Wind Turbine That Transmits Energy Using A Superconductor

A team of scientists from around Europe has tested a wind turbine that transmits energy using a superconductor. The team, named the EcoSwing Consortium, publish…

Microgrid

Asia-Pacific Continues to be The Largest Overall Market for Microgrids

This is according to a newly released report from Navigant Research, which analyzes regional microgrid capacity, implementation spending, and business model typ…

Asia Pacific Leads Global Electricity Procurement Market in Q3

The Asia Pacific dominated the market for electricity procurement tenders after it took up 35.4% of the total mix with 17 tenders in July-September 2019, accord…

PowerGrid Technology

Germany Commissioned Siemens to Build New Switchgear in Daxlanden Substation

German transmission grid operator TransnetBW has commissioned Siemens to build new switchgear in the 380 kilovolt (kV) Daxlanden substation in Karlsruhe, Baden-…

Energy storage technology

NREL Awarded $2.8 Million to Develop a Long-Duration Thermal Energy Storage Technology

ARPA-E has challenged researchers to innovate a storage technology that can be deployed in almost any location and charge and discharge electricity, at a low fi…

EV Market

Volkswagen Breaks Ground on $800M Expansion for MEB-based EV Production in US

This is a big, big moment for this company. Expanding local production sets the foundation for our sustainable growth in the US. Electric vehicles are the futur…

Energy storage technology

In Search for Cheaper, Longer Energy Storage, Mountain Gravity could Eventually Top Lithium-Ion

Mountain gravity energy storage could be a viable way to store electricity for longer durations and at larger scales than lithium-ion battery storage can, accor…

Market Analysis

Solar to Cover a Quarter of Global Power by 2050

Global solar power capacity will grow by 9% every year between 2018 and 2050, according to a new study released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IR…

The Shifting Landscape of Carbon Dioxide Reduction

Despite the absence of a national policy aimed at reducing CO2 emissions, the U.S. is ahead of schedule to meet the short-term and mid-term goals of both the Pa…

Solar Power Plant

IEnova Switches on 41-MW PV Plant in Mexico

November 14 - Mexican power and gas utility Infraestructura Energetica Nova SAB de CV (IEnova) announced on Wednesday it has put online a 41-MW photovoltaic (PV…