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....
The Power of Sand Batteries -- Revolutionizing Energy Storage... - YouTube ( youtube.com )
How a Sand Battery Could Revolutionize Home Energy Storage - YouTube ( youtube.com )
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 )
Building geothermal heat networks from flooded coal mines ( www.youtube.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...
German renewable energy: lack of network expansion ( www.youtube.com )
Although Germany has massively invested into green energy, the issue is that the electric network has not been sufficiently expanded. This means that solar and wind energy has to be turned off to not overload the network. However, the owners of solar/wind energy still get paid. This means that in Germany, the price of energy...
Key Solar Panel Ingredient Is Made in the U.S.A. Again | REC Silicon says it will soon start shipping polysilicon, which has come mostly from China, reviving a Washington State factory that shut down ( www.nytimes.com )
Executives at the companies say they reopened the factory in part because of incentives for domestic manufacturing in the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden’s signature climate law. They expressed hope that their decision would also encourage other companies to revive production of a technology that was created in the...
Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power ( wapo.st )
I'll note that right now, this is a seasonal issue, associated with moderate springtime temperatures when there is a lot of sunshine available.