The puffs of air that sway the grass on a summer’s day, the result of the uneven heating of the earth and its rotation, are one key to reducing humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels. Wind could be key...
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99% Of U.S. Coal Plants Are More Expensive Than New Renewables. A Coal-To-Clean Transition Is Worth $589 Billion, Mostly In Red States
Nevada’s last coal plant is scheduled to close in 2025 after 40 years of service due to rising operation costs. The closure will dramatically improve air quality, yet the economic impact will be borne...
43 Companies to Compete For Five California Offshore Wind Leases
Wind turbines at the London Array offshore wind park near England, United Kingdom. Unlike this … [+] offshore wind facility, California’s offshore wind will need to use turbines that float...
World’s Largest Floating Wind Farm Powers Up
ANP/AFP via Getty Images Key takeaways On Monday, Norwegian energy firm Equinor reported its offshore floating wind farm Hywind Tampen produced its first watts on Sunday The wind farm totals 11 turbin...
Crypto and tech are the first dominoes to fall as stimulus liquidity dries up, says this money manager. Here’s what could happen next.
Read: Sequoia on its FTX investment: Some surprise to the upside, and some surprise to the downside JPMorgan is predicting a “cascade of margin calls, deleveraging and crypto company/platform failures...
Germany’s Dependence On Russian Gas Coincided With Drop In Wind Investment
Wind turbines are seen near the coal-fired power station Neurath of German energy giant RWE in … [+] Garzweiler, western Germany, on March 15, 2021. – On March 16, 2021, the group will pre...
Texas Is Primed To Be Our Nation’s Direct Air Capture Hub
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR NRG – The W. A. Parish power plant on Friday Sept. 5, 2014 in rural Fort Bend … [+] County, TX. Ground was broken today on the Petra...
WeWork’s Adam Neumann secures millions in funding for his new company Flow
Adam Neumann is back. The billionaire businessman who founded office-sharing company WeWork Inc. WE, -4.70% is back with another company called Flow, a residential real estate company attempting to ad...
Duke Energy Sees a Bright Future for Nuclear Power
I figured I’d put the uranium rods near the basketball hoop. Water from the nearby garden hose would serve as both the coolant and the moderator, slowing the neutrons enough to keep my chain reaction ...
Senate Passes Climate Bill. The Rush to Renewable Energy Is On.
The climate and tax package passed by the Senate on Sunday will unlock around $400 billion in funding for clean energy and accelerate a historic shift in how the world is powered. Along with a paralle...
Big Wind And Big Solar Will Collect $113 Billion In Tax Credits This Decade, Manchin-Schumer Assures Billions More
The reconciliation bill now pending in Congress, known as Manchin-Schumer, (or Schumer-Manchin) … [+] assures that the lavish federal tax credits for wind- and solar-energy become permanent. (Th...
MidAmerican Energy Abandons Plan To Add 30 Wind Turbines, Madison County Residents Celebrate: ‘How Awesome’
MidAmerican Energy Company has cancelled plans to put 30 wind turbines in Madison County, Iowa, a … [+] province famous for its covered wind bridges. The decision was cheered by county residents...
Invenergy Sues An Iowa County, Uses ‘Nefarious Tactics’ To Push More Wind Turbines
Invenergy, a company controlled by billionaire Michael Polsky, sued Worth County, Iowa last month … [+] claiming the county’s wind regulations are “onerous and extreme.” Julie ...
Rolls-Royce’s SMR Needs 10,000 Times Less Land Than Wind Energy, Proves ‘Iron Law Of Power Density’
Rolls-Royce’s new SMR will produce 470 megawatts of power and require just 10 acres of land, giving … [+] it a power density that is 10,000 times greater than that of a wind project. Getty...
Chinese Wind-Turbine Companies Seek Global Growth as Western Rivals Struggle
TARANTO, Italy—Chinese wind-turbine makers have grown big on the back of their rapidly growing home market. Now they want to expand abroad, putting further pressure on Western wind-turbine makers, whi...
Newsom’s About-Face On Diablo Canyon Underscores Foolishness Of Indian Point Closure And Need To Save Palisades
On Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he wants to prevent the premature shutdown of … [+] the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, the state’s only nuclear power plant. Bettmann A...
Solar Overtakes Wind Energy For First Time In Global Rush For Renewables
Solar photovoltaic panels alongside a wind farm getty Solar power has overtaken wind for the first time, in the race to develop renewable energy capacity around the globe. According to the Internation...
Big Solar Gets Spanked Again, This Time In Maine
Last Saturday, residents of Lovell, Maine voted by a margin of 80% to 20% to reject a large solar … [+] project that was proposed to be built in their town. The vote (202-30) provides yet more e...
5 New Reports Show Wind And Solar Power Can Cripple Putin, Secure Climate Goals
Solar technology in Hemau, Bayern, the world’s biggest aerea for solar energy, Constructed in 2002, … [+] Germany, The total module area amounted to 34, 960qm2. (Photo by plus49/Constructi...
Could The Russian Oil Ban Turn The World Toward Renewable Energy?
Getty Images Key Takeaways The EU may not be in a position to follow suit on President Joe Biden’s ban on Russian oil imports The world, at large, has growing opportunities to turn to clean tech On Tu...
ERCOT Market Design, Subsidies For Renewables, ‘Fails To Adequately Pay For Reliable’ Generation
A pedestrian walks through the snow in McKinney, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. … [+] Photographer: Cooper Neill/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Many reports have been published a...
These 20 stocks have short interest of 19% or more, and AMC and GameStop are not even in the top half
Short selling is a trading technique that gets especially popular during bear markets in stocks. Short selling — or betting on a decline in prices — can come to the fore if investors suspect a company...