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An update of Vermont Solar Pathways Report shows that solar progress in Vermont has declined steadily over the last three years. The current annual installation rate would not be sufficient to reach the 20% by 2025 Solar Pathways target. “The update sends a mixed message,” said the study’s lead author, David Hill, PhD. “On one […]
Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) announced its latest renewable energy project, Maple Hill, a 150-MW solar facility in Portage and Summerhill Townships, Pennsylvania. Construction could begin as early as the end of 2020. This follows the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s recent decision to expand the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR), which provides a solid ground for […]
There’s something strange in this PV plant … and it don’t look good. Who we gonna call? You’ve got a fault code or even a whole series of fault codes, and it looks like something has gone wrong with an inverter. Downtime is expensive, so a technician needs to hop in a truck and go […]
It is well understood that large scale energy storage is the key to allowing us to achieve our clean energy utilization goals in the effort to fight back against climate change. Energy storage helps us overcome the biggest drawback to renewable sources of generation like solar – the issue of intermittency. Pairing renewables with storage […]
Canadian Solar Inc. has signed a multi-year module supply agreement with Lightsource BP to deliver 1.2 GW of high efficiency polycrystalline solar modules for projects in the US and Australia. Lightsource BP is a global market leader in the development, acquisition and long-term management of large-scale solar projects and smart energy solutions. The projects will […]
Photosensitizers are molecules that absorb sunlight and pass that energy along to generate electricity or drive chemical reactions. They’re generally based on rare, expensive metals; so the discovery that iron carbenes, with plain old iron at their cores, can do this, too, triggered a wave of research over the past few years. But while ever […]
If there was one phrase I remember from my time in Scottsdale, Arizona, for GreenBiz 20, it is, “The suits have got to get out of the office.” Those were the words uttered repetitively by Temple Grandin, the animal behaviorist who helped McDonald’s develop strategies for treating beef more humanely, when she spoke to a […]
One question the GreenBiz Group team fields often from those both inside and outside the corporate sustainability community is whether hosting in-person gatherings is the “right” thing to do in a world where responsible individuals are seeking to reduce their own personal impact on climate change as much as possible. Time and again, the value […]
The second annual GreenFin Summit, part of GreenBiz 20, brought together 200 sustainability and investment professionals representing $22 trillion in assets under management and more than 50 Fortune 500 companies. The focal question: What would it take to align and leverage capital markets to drive the global economy towards sustainability? This question comes at a […]
Net Zero Fellows encourage innovation and help expand the market for net-zero buildings. Energy Trust of Oregon is pleased to announce that Katy Anderson, an energy analyst at Glumac, is the latest recipient. Her research will focus on increasing the industry’s knowledge of cost drivers associated with multifamily new construction in Oregon. At Glumac, Katy […]
