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Trump crackdown on U.S. wind projects prompts call for Equinor to look north

April 22, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on April 22, 2025. By Christopher Bonasia As Donald Trump’s anti-wind government halts U.S. projects that have already broken ground, advocates are urging developers to look north, [Read more]

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Turbines in a war zone: Vestas announces 384 MW for wind farm in Ukraine

January 29, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Jan. 28, 2025. By Mitchell Beer Danish wind developer Vestas A/S and Ukraine’s DTEK Renewables are adding nearly 400 MW of new capacity to a wind [Read more]

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Chinese manufacturer unveils 28-MW offshore turbine, world’s biggest

October 23, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Oct. 21, 2024. A wind turbine manufacturer in Chengdu, China has unveiled the world’s biggest offshore wind turbine, a 26-megawatt machine with more than 30,000 parts [Read more]

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‘Turning point in energy history’ as renewables nudging fossil fuels off the grid

May 9, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on May 8, 2024. By Mitchell Beer Solar and wind energy grew quickly enough in 2023 to push renewables up to 30 per cent of global electricity [Read more]

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DTEK, VESTAS sign MOU to complete development of Ukraine windfarm

December 4, 2023 Energi Staff

Ukraine’s largest private investor in the energy sector of Ukraine, DTEK Group, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Denmark’s Vestas to complete the construction of the largest wind farm in Eastern Europe on.  The project [Read more]

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What happened to the Great Lakes offshore wind boom?

November 28, 2023 Energi Staff

This story was originally published byInside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of Grist’s Climate Desk collaboration on Nov. 28, 2023. By Nicole Pollack, Inside Climate News At the tail end of the [Read more]

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Wind was second-largest source of US electricity generation on March 29

April 18, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on April 14, 2022. By Jonathan DeVilbiss, M. Tyson Brown On Tuesday, March 29, wind turbines in the Lower 48 states produced 2,017 gigawatthours (GWh) [Read more]

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Renewables to account for most global generation increases, but coal use remains high

October 18, 2021 Energi Staff

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]

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EDP Renewables, TC Energy join forces in Sharp Hills Wind Farm

September 27, 2021 Energi Staff

EDP Renewables Canada and TC Energy Corporation have agreed to a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for 100 per cent of the output of the 297-megawatt (MW) Sharp Hills Wind Farm. Sharp Hills Wind Farm [Read more]

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Renewables the second-most prevalent US electricity source in 2020

July 29, 2021 Energi Staff

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]

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Renewables dominate future electric capacity additions

March 1, 2021 Energi Staff

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]

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Nonfossil sources one-fifth of 2019 US energy consumption

July 2, 2020 Energi Staff

By Owen Comstock This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on July 1, 2020. Today in Energy would like to wish you a happy Fourth of July. New articles will resume on Monday, [Read more]

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Most of Hawaii’s electric battery storage systems paired with wind, solar power systems

March 20, 2020 Energi Staff

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]

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Pembina Institute says clean energy future cheaper than gas

October 17, 2019 Energi Staff

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]

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Renewables will provide nearly half of world electricity by 2050: EIA

October 2, 2019 Energi Staff

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]

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Policies critical to boosting renewables in energy mix

October 2, 2019 Energi Staff

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]

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2019 renewable power capacity additions to hit double-digit growth

September 24, 2019 Energi Staff

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]

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Renewables fastest growing source of electricity generation: EIA

January 18, 2019 Energi Staff

The US Energy Information Administration projects that the share of total U.S. electricity generation produced by all renewables other than hydropower will increase by three percentage points during the next two years.  BP photo. Renewables [Read more] [Read more]

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Wind, solar power generate 20% of electricity in 10 states in 2017

October 11, 2018 Energi Staff

Wind and solar power accounted for a significant amount of in-state electricity generation in Iowa, Kansas and California.  Total annual generation from wind and solar in the US last year hit 8 per cent, peaking [Read more]

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Opinion: Six different energy trends, landmarks and facts

May 10, 2018 Energi Staff

To celebrate his 1000th Twitter follower, on his Chester Energy and Policy blog, Matt Chester published an article on May 10 describing the six different ways that the number 1,000 is weaving through energy trends today. [Read more]

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Alberta needs a Plan B

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

Oil finally has a competitor (electricity) Alberta already has a Plan A. It’s called the Emissions Reduction and Energy Development Plan. To understand how risky it is, you need to understand OPEC’s “Oil and Gas [Read more]

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