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| | Paul Gerke | Meyer Burger has canceled a planned solar cell factory in Colorado as other companies try to prove making solar in the U.S. is an economically sound undertaking. | |
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| | Sean Wolfe | The company is shutting down just months after acquiring solar and storage installer Renu Energy, Latitude Media reports. | |
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| | John Engel | This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less. | |
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| Paul Gerke | In the shadow of the Revolution Wind incident, another GE Vernova Haliade-X turbine has failed at Dogger Bank wind farm offshore England. | |
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| Paul Gerke | Michigan's largest energy provider is giving every household and business the option to match 100% of their energy use with wind and solar. | |
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| Paul Gerke | CPUC's final decision recommends solicitations for offshore wind projects begin by 2027, with intent to deliver power no later than 2037. | |
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| John Engel | Transmission and renewables aren’t being built quickly enough to allow fossil fuel plants to close by state deadline, experts argue. Storage appears to be the most realistic path, a new analysis finds. | |
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| Paul Gerke | China met its goal of having 1,200 GW of clean energy capacity six years ahead of schedule... While pumping out a record amount of CO2. | |
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| Paul Gerke | EDF Renewables and Innergex have been awarded leases for wind projects, adding to New Mexico's portfolio as SunZia Transmission is built. | |
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| Paul Gerke | SPP has asked for extra time evaluating generation interconnection requests, hoping to streamline its process and improve study assumptions. | |
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| John Engel | NREL researchers have nicknamed the biomass-derivable resin PECAN (PolyEster Covalently Adaptable Network) and have demonstrated its use in a 9-meter blade prototype. | |
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Episode 81 of the Factor This! podcast features Sparkfund CEO Pier LaFarge, who is partnering with some of the largest utilities to deploy hundreds of DERs on their behalf. |
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