This article was published by Grist on April 25, 2025. By Akielly Hu Raymond Ward wants to see solar panels draped over every balcony in the United States and doesn’t understand why that isn’t happening. [Read more]
This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on April 22, 2025. By Katherine Antonio Utility-scale solar power capacity in China reached more than 880 gigawatts (GW) in 2024, according to China’s National Energy Administration. China [Read more]
This article was published by The Energy Mix on Jan. 9, 2025. Eight years ago, the City of Chicago vowed to eventually run all its operations on carbon-free power. Now, it has fulfilled that promise, [Read more]
This article was published by Grist on March 16, 2023. By Joseph Winters Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, is celebrating a milestone this week as it completes the final phase in a project to boost its energy [Read more]
This article was published by Grist on March 18, 2023. By Jon Hurdle, Yale Environment 360 In Odessa, Texas, workers at a startup called SolarCycle unload trucks carrying end-of-life photovoltaic panels freshly picked from commercial [Read more]
This article was published by the International Energy Agency on July 7, 2022. Ensuring a secure transition to net zero emissions will require increased efforts to expand and diversify global production of solar panels whose [Read more]
By Kenneth Dubin This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Oct. 15, 2021. In the Reference case of our International Energy Outlook 2021 (IEO2021), where we assume current laws and regulations continue into [Read more]
By Singfoong “Cindy” Cheah This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Sept. 20, 2021. The Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) facility in California’s Mojave Desert retired five of its solar plants [Read more]
By Mickey Francis This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on July 28, 2021. In 2020, renewable energy sources (including wind, hydroelectric, solar, biomass, and geothermal energy) generated a record 834 billion kilowatthours (kWh) of [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on Jan 20, 2021. Canada’s Energy Future 2020: Energy Supply and Projections to 2050 (EF2020) is the latest long-term energy outlook from the Canada Energy Regulator (CER). [Read more]
By Stephen York This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Sept. 30, 2020. In the first two weeks of September 2020, average solar-powered electricity generation in the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), [Read more]
By Kien Chau This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on March 20, 2020. Nearly all of Hawaii’s utility-scale battery storage capacity is installed with onshore wind turbines or solar photovoltaic (PV) [Read more]
Last week, Elemental Energy announced it purchased the 25 MW Innisfail Solar Project located in Red Deer County. By its forecast 2020 completion date, it will the the first merchant solar project in Alberta. “The [Read more]
Research by Pembina Institute shows that when paired with battery storage and energy efficiency, electricity from solar and wind is capable of generating electricity with the same reliability and lower cost than gas plants. Pembina [Read more]
By Michelle Bowman This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Oct. 2, 2019. In 2018, 28 per cent of global electricity was generated from renewable energy sources, most (96 per cent) [Read more]
This article was published by the International Energy Agency on Oct. 1, 2019. As the contributions of solar PV and wind power to electricity systems keep growing around the world, governments and industry must address [Read more]
This article was published by the International Energy Agency on Sept. 20, 2019. After stalling last year, global capacity additions of renewable power are set to bounce back with double-digit growth in 2019, driven by [Read more]
Greengate Power Corporation announced on Tuesday that it has received approval from the Alberta Utilities Commission to construct and operate its $500 million Travers Solar project. Construction of the project located in Vulcan Country will [Read more]
Canada solar power generation is highly seasonal, particularly in the north as the amount of sunlight hours can be radically different between winter and summer. Getty Images/Bloomberg photo by James MacDonald. Canada solar power generation [Read more]
The National Energy Board issued its Economics of Solar Power in Canada report which offers anyone considering solar power installations information on the financial costs of switching to the renewable energy source. Economics of Solar [Read more] [Read more]
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