The massive appetite in South Africa for solar energy is reflected in the escalating imports of solar panels, with R16.9 billion having been landed in just the first nine months of 2023. In 2022 the country imported R5.6bn worth of solar panels. This is according to the senior economist of Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, an […]
This commentary is by Andrew K. Gentile, an electrical engineer who lives in Sheffield. This summer’s flooding has prompted dozens of stories linking our weather to the use of fossil fuels, with each story following the same pattern: The flooding is due exclusively to the use of fossil fuels, and we have to stop using […]
The solar plant is built on 2,600 acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM)- managed public land. Credit: Intersect Power. US clean energy company Intersect Power has begun commercial operations at its 679MW Oberon solar plus storage project in Riverside County in the US state of California. The Oberon solar project has a co-located 250MW/1 […]
Wisconsin utility WEC Group announced to shareholders last month that its subsidiaries would phase out coal by 2032, three years earlier than previously planned. We Energies’ Oak Creek plants will close in 2024 and 2025. Columbia Energy Center — the state’s largest coal plant, co-owned by WEC and Alliant — will close by 2026. Weston […]
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Solar panels combined with next-generation batteries now outperform military-grade diesel generators, according to new analysis. Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) found that the novel clean energy solution was […]
Chad Neal (right) instructs second year IBEW apprentices at the Cedar Rapids Electrical Training Center in Cedar Rapids on Sept. 25. Green Energy development projects such as the Duane Arnold Solar development in Palo have led to an increased demand for skilled tradesmen. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette) Scott Robinson of Cedar Rapids didn’t know a thing […]
