Toyota to buy clean power from a $1.1 billion solar farm in Texas
Enbridge, a Canadian energy company, just announced it’s moving forward with an 815-megawatt (MW) solar project called Sequoia in Texas. When it’s done, it’ll be one of the largest solar farms in North America. The project’s price
Voters in 3 Swing States Love Solar — But Does It Matter?
The US Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) put out an interesting story today, including the graphic above (and below). It’s a fun topic with uplifting findings, and we’ve reported on similar surveys for about 15 years. This is always the
Don’t Let Election Nastiness Affect The Future Of Decarbonization
What will it take to reduce the emissions of the formidable power, buildings, transportation, and agriculture industries? It will require hundreds of wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles, and storage batteries. The production of these industries, in turn, will require
How Solar and Battery Kept An Appalachian Farm Going
No matter how many transcontinental trips people take, no matter how many severe weather events are survived with an EV’s battery, and no matter how many other things clean technology does—there’s a persistent myth that it’s not up to the
DOE releases draft roadmap to improve EV charger, solar and distributed energy resources interconnections
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X) program has released a draft roadmap to improve processes for interconnecting clean energy resources to the distribution and
Utility-Scale U.S. Solar Electricity Generation Skyrocketing in 2024
In August 2024, utility-scale generation of solar electricity averaged 63.1 gigawatthours between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. each day in the Lower 48 states, 36% more than for the same hours in August 2023. Additions of solar generating capacity outpaced
Utah’s first floating solar farm is complete [video]
Renewable developer Ameresco teamed up with water utility Mountain Regional Water Special Service District to launch Utah’s first floating solar farm.
more…Help with fractions, EV sales up, a $50K Lucid, and solar is bigger in Texas
On today’s spectacular episode of Quick Charge, we bust the myth of slowing EV sales by teaching journalists how to do math. We also check out the new, $50,000 mainstream Lucid and break the news to California