Renew

Switzerland

Swiss Hydropower Plant to Power 2.5MW Hydrogen Production Facility

Swiss renewable energy companies Axpo and Rhiienergie are building a 2.5MW hydrogen production facility at the 18MW Reichenau hydropower plant in Domat/Ems, Swi…

Energy Transition

Community Solar: Can California Get It Right This Time?

Episode 33 of the Factor This! podcast features Aaron Halimi, president and founder of the California-based community solar developer Renewable Properties. Subs…

Hydrogen Production

Skills Survey Seeks to Bridge Australia’s Clean Energy Jobs Gap

The federal government is launching a national energy jobs survey, as concerns mount that major labour shortages will derail Australia’s shift to renewabl…

Wind Turbine Blade

Armadale Developers Remove Three Turbines From Proposal, Increase Size of Remaining Nine

The company behind plans for a controversial wind farm at Armadale in north Sutherland has axed three turbines from the layout.Brookfield Renewables UK Ltd conf…

Oil Refinery

US Court Halts RFS Mandate for 2 Refineries

An appeals court has suspended the compliance obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for two small refineries that were denied hardship exemptions …

Solar Technology

Current and Future Prospective for Battery Controllers of Solar PV Integrated Battery Energy Storage Systems

Solar photovoltaic (PV) microgrids have gained popularity in recent years as a way to improve the stability of intermittent renewable energy generation in syste…

Solar Power Plant

Solar Wadi to Build 100MW Solar PV Plant in Oman

Once completed, the plant will provide the tenants of Suhar Industrial City with a cheaper source of electricity, while also allowing them to meet their decarbo…

Energy Storage System

Milestone for Major Pumped Hydro Storage Project in Wyoming

A Utah-based company is developing a pumped hydro energy storage project in the heart of coal country, one of several renewable energy deployments being sited i…

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal ‘Battery’ Repurposes Abandoned Oil and Gas Well in Illinois, Researchers Report

A conceptual schematic of the type of advanced geothermal energy storage system demonstrated in this study. Credit: Tugce Baser and Renewable EnergyResearchers …

Microgrid

Husk Power Systems Proves Rural Minigrids Can Be Profitable

There is a common belief that profit-building minigrids are impossible in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Husk Power released financial data today that illus…

Geothermal Power Plant

Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France to Be Supplied With Geothermal Heating by 2025

Mignot Hospital, Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, Yvelines, France (source: Département des Yvelines / flilckr, Creative Commons)A geothermal heating project in …

Solar Technology

Iberdrola Awarded Four Agrovoltaic Innovation Projects in France

Iberdrola has been awarded four agrovoltaic projects with a total capacity of 12 MW in the renewable energy innovation tender launched by the French Ministry fo…

Solar Technology

The EU Commission Sues Bulgaria, Slovakia Over the Renewable Energy Directive

The European Commission has decided to sue Bulgaria and Slovakia over their failure to transpose the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive into their national l…

Energy Technology

NREL Publishes New Analysis Quantifying EGS Potential

EGS diagram (source: DOE, Geothermal Technologies Program)The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a new analysis that quantifies the poten…

Hydrogen Production

Axpo, Rhiienergie Break Ground on Swiss Hydrogen Production Facility at Hydropower Plant

Renewable energy producer Axpo and electric utility firm Rhiienergie have today (January 24) announced they have broken ground on a green hydrogen production fa…