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Microgrid

Microgrids Take Off Among Airport Operators

Pittsburgh’s airport will soon run entirely on a microgrid, part of a growing trend in a resiliency-obsessed industry.

Electric Car

Volvo Buses Demonstrates Autonomous Electric Bus in Bus Depot

Volvo Buses recently demonstrated the potential of a 12-meter electric and autonomous bus at a bus depot.

Thermal Plant

51% of India's Coal-fired Power Plants Set to Miss Emission Norm Deadline

Thermal power companies, which produce three-quarters of the country's electricity, account for some 80% of India's industrial emissions of sulphur- and nitrous…

Lehigh Engineers Designed A More Efficient Tidal Turbine with NSF Grant

Arindam Banerjee's lab uses innovative active grid turbulence generator to mimic water conditions of Verdant Power's Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Projec…

​Study Finds Hydropower GHG Emissions Can be Higher Than Facilities Burning Fossil Fuels

Hydropower facilities have long been criticized for their negative impacts on wildlife, but a new study has found that, in some cases, hydropower GHG emissions …

Wind Power Project

​Wind Power Vital to Columbia's Long Term Energy Security

In order to take a closer look at the development of wind energy in Columbia, national and international experts from government and industry met recently in Bo…

​Indian Electricity Distributor to Trial P2P Solar Trading

Electricity distributor BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) has partnered with Power Ledger, a global leader in blockchain-based renewable energy trading, to ins…

EDC Increases Revenues with Better Performance of Geothermal Plants

EDC reports geothermal revenues of $514m for first three quarters of 2019 contributing around 34% of total revenues of its mother company First Gen. Better perf…

STA Unveils Policy Advice for Next Government

The Solar Trade Association (STA) is calling on the next government to “hit the ground running” as it stresses the need for the “urgent delivery” of three k…

Study Proposes Agenda for US Decarbonisation

Achieving net-zero emissions in the USA by 2050 will require action across society, a new report from the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) has con…

Regional Workshop in Costa Rica Highlights the Important Role of Geothermal

A Regional Workshop on Geothermal Energy of two days of sessions to exchange experiences on the use of this resource in fields such as reservoir management, te…

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…

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…

Crude

China Oct Refinery Output Rises 9.2% from Year Ago to Second-Highest Ever

China’s crude oil throughput in October rose 9.2% from a year earlier to the second-highest on record, as refineries in the world’s second-biggest oil consume…

Energy Storage Battery

All The Energy Storage The Grid Needs Will Soon Be Under Our Noses

If energy and transportation planners stop seeing their sectors as separate markets for batteries—a World Resources Institute researcher argued last week—ther…