France announces winners of world’s first commercial-scale floating offshore wind auction | WindEurope ( windeurope.org )
"Yesterday France announced the winners of the 250 MW South Brittany floating offshore wind auction, the world’s first commercial-scale floating offshore wind auction. This is a major milestone for floating offshore wind technology. So far Europe has only built small pilot and demonstrator projects. With yesterday’s...
Billionaire bets big on largest solar project ever proposed to deliver power across oceans: 'At the forefront of the clean energy transition' ( www.thecooldown.com )
The world is on the cusp of an energy transformation that could make the Industrial Revolution look minor. Mike Cannon-Brookes is banking on the Land Down Under to be a major driver of that change....
Free Solar for Farmers: Climate Law Gives Rich Incentives | President Biden’s clean-energy subsidies are covering entire project costs and then some ( www.wsj.com )
World’s largest compressed air energy storage project comes online in China ( www.pv-magazine.com )
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In a milestone, the US exceeds 5 million solar installations ( electrek.co )
Joe Biden to raise solar import tariffs in bid to protect US industry ( www.ft.com )
Can UK’s abandoned mines be used to build a greener future? – Channel 4 News ( www.channel4.com )
Alberta continues to insist its renewables pause wasn’t political. Emails and texts show otherwise ( thenarwhal.ca )
China's 1st large-scale sodium battery energy storage station put into operation ( cnevpost.com )
Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply ( www.theguardian.com )
Renewable energy accounted for more than 30% of the world’s electricity for the first time last year following a rapid rise in wind and solar power, according to new figures....
Vermont just passed a 100% renewable electricity mandate ( electrek.co )
"...across all the state’s utilities by 2035."...
A Company Is Building a Giant Compressed-Air Battery in the Australian Outback ( www.wired.com )
China’s EV and Solar Exports Are Powering Ahead as Prices Slide ( www.bloomberg.com )
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Nevada put big battery energy storage where a coal plant used to be ( electrek.co )
Germany just now approved new laws that make setting up solar on your balcony super easy ( www.tagesschau.de )
Just 10 years ago, landlords could ban you from putting solar cells on your balcony because it makes their building look "messy". Now Germany is really pushing forward to let everybody put solar modules on their balcony with these new laws. How is legalization of balcony solar cells in your country? Is setting up solar modules...
Negative electricity prices registered in nearly all European energy markets ( www.pv-magazine.com )
"Spanish consultancy AleaSoft Energy Forecasting recorded negative hourly electricity prices for all but one European energy market it analyzed during the first week of April, including in the Spanish and Portuguese markets for the first time. It also registered an all-time production record for photovoltaic energy in Portugal...
EU pushes to curb China’s green tech market lead ( www.politico.eu )
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Boom times for US green energy as federal cash flows in ( www.bbc.com )
"Signed into law by President Biden in August 2022, the IRA, along with the so-called Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) enacted in November 2021, are intended, amongst other things, to funnel billions of federal dollars into developing clean energy....
China is building more coal plants but might burn less coal ( www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com )
Some analysts think that China’s coal emissions have already peaked – or will peak in the next few years. We’ll have to wait and see if they’re right. But the fact that they can even suggest that a peak in coal use is coming, while China is adding more coal plants, seems contradictory....
China has flooded the market with so many solar panels that people are using them as garden fencing ( www.businessinsider.com )
Solar panels — 80% of which are made in China — are so cheap that they're now being used to line garden fences in Germany and the Netherlands, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
Renewable energy overtakes gas in the UK, analysis shows ( www.independent.co.uk )
Record-breaking renewable energy production signals ‘end to fossil age’, some researchers believe....
Battery prices collapsing, grid-tied energy storage expanding ( pv-magazine-usa.com )
From July 2023 through summer 2024, battery cell pricing is expected to plummet by over 60% (and potentially more) due to a surge in EV adoption and grid expansion in China and the U.S.