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"This astounds me! I'm in Australia. We ordered our PW2 in November 2017 and had it (along with a 10 kW solar system) fully installed and running in January 2018,” the Tesla Motor Club member ...
Natural-gas peaker plants may soon be under threat in a very real way. “I can’t see a reason why we should ever build a gas peaker again in the U.S. after, say, 2025,” said Shayle Kann, a ...
Transmission developers have long said that if only a few big renewable-linked projects could get built, the path would open to others once the benefits were made manifest. That theory was largely ...
The commonly held view that lithium-ion batteries are not being recycled is not true. It’s just that China has pretty much cornered the market, experts say. China recycled around 67,000 tons of ...
Form Energy, the stealthy, Bill Gates-backed startup, has secured its first utility deal for a novel super-long-duration energy storage technology. And its stated capability blows away anything ...
The Trump administration’s solar tariff saga continues.After months of legal back-and-forth, a ruling in the U.S. Court of International Trade has reinstated tariffs on two-sided solar panels ...
JinkoSolar announced this week that it is finalizing plans to build an advanced solar manufacturing facility in the U.S., as the company continues to monitor the implementation of new tariffs on ...
Spillover into other markets At the same time, growth in German offshore wind installations is creating problems for Germany’s neighbors. TenneT, the transmission system operator that serves the ...
There’s a lot of energy underneath homes — if reasonably priced technology can be scaled up to tap its potential. A U.S. Department of Energy study indicates that geothermal heat pumps, which ...
California’s heat-wave-driven rolling blackouts last month, and the threat of more to come, have focused state political leaders and energy regulators on how to fix the California Public ...
“Inverters are constantly going down and going offline,” said Corbitt. “Somebody has to be there on the site to troubleshoot.” Origis prefers including corrective maintenance in the ...
Beyond the $100 million wildfire carve-out, the decision makes some important changes to SGIP’s approach to low-income, disadvantaged and multifamily housing, the CPUC’s press release noted ...