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Geothermal Heating Project

Geothermal Heating and Cooling System Being Built in Rochester, Minnesota

Rochester, Minnesota (source: Tony Asleson / flickr, Creative Commons)Two geothermal wells are being drilled right in front of the City Hall of Rochester in Min…

Solar Cell

ASTI CIGS Thin-Film Cell Efficiency Hits 15.2%

US-based Ascent Solar Technologies (ASTI), specializing in thin-film solar technology, announced this week that for the first time, its CIGS thin-film solar cel…

United States

Here's Where the $154B Investment and 188K Jobs From Biden's EV Push Are Going

In recent years, automakers have announced new EV investments totaling $154 billion and creating 188,000 jobs, largely catalyzed by President Biden’s EV p…

Hydrogen Fuel Vehicle

Airbus to Use Hydrogen Fuel Cell System for an A330 Aircraft's Onboard Auxiliar Power Unit

The R&D Dynamics system will be used for electricity generation for non-propulsive power.Airbus UpNext has announced that it is replacing an A330 aircraft&rsquo…

Energy Storage Project

Private Equity Firm KKR Agrees Us$1 Billion Deal for UK Developer Zenobē – Reports

US-listed private equity firm KKR is to acquire joint control of UK battery storage developer Zenobē in partnership with existing investor Infracapital, accord…

Solar Battery (Storage)

Linking Two Solar Technologies Is a Win-Win for Efficiency and Stability

While conventional silicon-based solar cells have had an unmistakable impact on the buildout of renewable energy resources around the world, additional performa…

Microgrid

Santa Barbara Microgrid to Provide Clean Energy Resiliency for Parking Garage, 911 Center and Library

The city of Santa Barbara has started construction on a microgrid expected to generate about 700,000 kWh of carbon-free electricity annually for municipal opera…

Wind Farm

Construction Begins on Transmission Project for New Mexico Wind Farm

Groundbreaking of the SunZia Transmission Project (Courtesy: Pattern Energy)Pattern Energy Group, a developer and operator of renewable energy and transmission …

Solar project

New York County Breaks Ground on 2.1-Mw Solar Project

Albany County executives, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and other project partners broke ground on September 5 on the site of the county’s first maj…

Solar Technology

Google hopes for US$100 million revenue a year from new APIs for solar, air and pollen data

Google's new APIs will provide data on solar, air quality and pollen. Image: GoogleGoogle has announced the launch of new APIs for environmental data on sol…

LNG

US LNG Producer Strikes Baker Hughes Deal Targeting 100MN Tpy

Venture Global has set out a plan, with Baker Hughes, to boost its projected export capacity from 70 million tonnes per year of LNG to 100mn tpy.As a result, Ve…

Hydrogen Project

Japanese Giant to Import Lng From, and Produce Green Ammonia In, the US

The world’s largest liquefied natural gas importer Japan’s Jera, its wholly owned subsidiary Jera Americas and Uniper have teamed up to jointly purs…

Hydrogen Project

Jera Americas and Uniper Announce Heads of Agreement Signing for Low Carbon Hydrogen/Ammonia Supply

Uniper, ConocoPhillips and JERA Americas have signed a Heads of Agreement framework for a sales contract: Uniper will be a core customer for the supply and will…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Cybertruck Spotted Towing a Big Trailer

A Tesla Cybertruck prototype was spotted towing a quite large trailer – giving hope that it will be a useful work truck.There are a lot of doubts about th…

Pumped Storage

NREL Study Highlights Closed-Loop Pumped Storage Hydropower as Climate-Friendly Grid-Scale Energy Storage Solution

In analysis conducted at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), closed-loop pumped storage hydropower systems have emerg…