Category: Renewable Energy / Environment
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), in partnership with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc., has announced seven finalist cities, from a field of 78 submittals in a nationwide competition, for the DOT’s Smart City Challenge. The Smart City Challenge is designed to help cities begin to address the challenges that many […]
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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Texas’s electricity grid operator, reported that wind resources on February 18 hit a record peak output of 14,023 MW at 9:20 PM, which was enough to serve just under 40% of the state’s load at that moment. A short time later, at 11:08 PM, wind resources
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SunPower CEO Tom Werner was interviewed today on Bloomberg. Some takeaways: Oil prices are low but in reality they have nothing to do with price of electricity; Good and bad yieldcos and MLPs are grouped together but over time quality players will separate from the rest; ITC, COP 21, and
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Thanks to partnership between the U.S. National Arboretum and the American Eagle Foundation (AEF), in conjunction with Alfred State University’s Electrical Trades Department, the world can now watch on live video a pair of bald eagles nesting with two eggs at the National Arboretum in Washington, DC. The pair of eagles
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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on CNBC now, discussing America’s energy infrastructure. On the subject of cheap natural gas’s impact on energy prices, the Secretary said that nuclear and coal (particularly small plants and plants in the Midwest) are strongly affected, but that cost reductions in wind and solar, in conjunction
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