This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week’s episode features ...
Things are about to get a little saltier in Wisconsin, and this time, it has nothing to do with the Green Bay Packers. Denver, Colorado-based Peak Energy has reached a deal with massive developer RWE ...
Following up on the history of solar power, I thought I’d run down the history of wind turbines a bit. Enjoy! People have caught the wind to propel their boats for many thousands of years. I’m ...
Image art by Paul Gerke via ChatGPT-4o. In what appears to be an unwitting ongoing act of self-sabotage that threatens grid reliability in an era of rapid load growth, the United States federal ...
The last few years have seen an increasing trend of negative power prices in the region served by the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), particularly in Southern California. Negative ...
New data released this week shows the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda has catalyzed a staggering $1 trillion in manufacturing, infrastructure, and clean energy investments ...
Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions developed the 60 MW Palmer Solar Project in partnership with Colorado Springs Utilities, which secured the generating capacity through a 25-year power purchase ...
A panel on meeting the challenge of resource adequacy in RTOs and ISOs on the first day of FERC's June technical conference. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) convened a two-day ...
Towering 450 feet above the California desertscape, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Facility was once, not so long ago, a monument to man’s ingenuity. When it was dedicated in 2014 (a ...
As with many advanced technologies, proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis had its beginnings in the space program. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the first use of ...
About 40 years ago, compressed air energy storage (CAES) was viewed as a technology with high potential. Some saw it as the energy storage medium of the future. Only two plants were ever built – one ...
Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar and a global developer and owner of solar and energy storage assets, has announced that Recurrent Energy B.V. has secured a $500 million investment ...