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Electric Vehicles

Frito-Lay Unveils Its First All-Electric Truck Fleet in the US

Snack giant Frito-Lay has launched its first 100% all-electric truck fleet at one of its North Carolina distribution sites.Frito-Lay’s electric truck flee…

Wind Farm

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners Starts Construction of Canada's Largest Onshore Wind Power Project

Buffalo Plains is expected to be fully operational by December 2024 and will, once completed, be the largest onshore wind farm constructed in Canada.Copenhagen …

Geothermal Heating Project

Creative Energy Evaluates Eavor-Loop for Vancouver Geothermal Heating

Downtown Vancouver, BC, Canada (source: PoYang / flickr, Creative Commons)District energy company Creative Energy will be conducting a feasibility study in coll…

Geothermal Power Project

Grant Program for Geothermal Launched in Colorado, USA

Pagosa Springs, Colorado/ U.S. (source: flickr/ EmmaNoProblema.com)The Colorado Energy Office and the administration under Gov. Jared Polis has launched the fir…

Solar Panel

Solar Installation Automation Platform Sees First Successful Deployment

Terabase Energy, a provider of digital and automation solutions for solar power plants, announced the successful completion of its first commercial project built …

Solar Panel

Minnesota Power Requests 300 MW of Solar by 2027

Minnesota Power issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for up to 300 MW of solar energy to come online by 2027.The RFP follows the approval of the utility’s…

Wind Turbine

First Wind Turbine Produced at GE Vernova's NY Facility

(GE Verona's 6 MW turbine at a site in New York. Credit: GE Verona)GE Vernova’s Onshore Wind business announced that it has completed the first onshor…

Oil & Gas Trade

Energy Transfer Inks Non-binding Deal to Supply Crude to France's Totalenergies

A view shows a logo of TotalEnergies at an electric vehicle fuelling station in the La Defense business district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, February 8, 2…

Electric Vehicles

Greenpower Receives Orders for 35 Mega Beasts in California

GreenPower Motor Company announced orders for 35 Type D all-electric, purpose-built school buses for the California market. (Earlier post.) GreenPower received …

Electric Vehicles

Top Tesla Gigacasting Supplier Gets Acquired by GM!

Here’s a story from left field that we didn’t see coming! Tesla has jumped ahead of the auto industry in vehicle production time and costs in the pa…

Microgrid

NV Energy Gets $2 Million Grant for Grid Technology

NV Energy, a Nevada-based utility company, has been awarded a $2 million grant to enhance the electricity grid's efficiency and reliability through advanced…

Geothermal Drilling

US DOE Announces $44 Million Funding for EGS Innovation Projects

Drilling rig on site of Utah FORGE project site, Nov. 2020 (source: Utah FORGE)The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that its Frontier Observatory for R…

Wave Energy

DOE Announces First Round Prize Winners for Novel Wave Energy Technologies

(Courtesy: Michael Olsen/Unsplash)The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) announced Phase I winners of the Innovating…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Panasonic to harness solar PV and battery storage for ‘beacon’ Welsh project

The site will harness hydrogen fuel cells, solar PV and battery storage. Image: Panasonic.Japanese electronics giant Panasonic is set to retrofit its Welsh manu…

Electricity Transmission

U.S. Renewable, Grid Battery Projects Battle Transformer Shortage

Wind turbines operate at sunrise in the Permian Basin oil and natural gas production area in Big Spring, Texas, U.S., February 12, 2019. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/Fil…