In Solar Expansions, China and India Leapfrog California
San Diego Tribune: When completed, the Pavagada solar park is expected to produce 2,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 700,000 households — and the latest milestone in India’s transition to...
View ArticleIndia Sees Doubling This Year of Solar Capacity
Economic Times of India: India is set to meet its target of adding 10,000 MW of solar capacity in 2017-18, almost twice that of the increase in 2016-17. The country had added 5,526 MW of solar capacity...
View ArticleEditorial: Blowback on Texas City Utility’s Long-Term Commitment to Coal
San Antonio Express: CPS Energy (formerly City Public Service of San Antonio) has received fairly strong blowback for its so-called “flexible” energy plan. This is largely because the plan includes...
View ArticleWind Uptake in Western U.S. Continues
Platts: Southwest Power Pool real-time prices turned negative Monday afternoon as wind generation picked up. South Hub real-time was negative $15.25/MWh around 1:25 pm CDT Monday as wind generation...
View ArticleIEEFA Update: Renewables and Grid Stability Go Hand in Hand
Opponents of renewable energy have sought to use the variability inherent in wind and solar electricity generation to campaign against the ongoing integration of such resources into the U.S. electric...
View ArticleSoutheast States—Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia—Begin to...
Bloomberg News: The reason why the sunny U.S. Southeast resisted solar power for years is the same reason that explains its about-face: cost. The region was long the country’s smallest solar market, in...
View ArticleLatest U.S. Energy Agency Data: Gas- and Coal-Fired Lost Market Share in 2017...
Energy Information Administration: Natural gas and coal generation fell by 7.7% and 2.5% from 2016, respectively, as generation from several renewable fuels, particularly hydro, wind, and solar,...
View ArticleAnother Step Toward Closure of Major Montana Coal Plant
Billings Gazette: A second Colstrip owner has agreed to be financially ready nine years from now to the shutter the coal-fired power plant’s newest units. Avista Corp., of Spokane, Washington, is...
View ArticleIn Poland, the Coal-Fired Heart of Europe, a Shift Toward Wind
Bloomberg News: After decades of prompting coal as the guarantor of national energy security, Europe’s fourth-biggest greenhouse-gas polluter is shifting to embrace wind power. PGE SA, which is...
View ArticleRise of Renewables Seen as Squeezing Out New U.K. Gas-Fired Generation
The Guardian: The UK is well on the way to a new era of subsidy-free renewable energy projects that will largely kill off prospects for new gas power stations, according to industry analysts. The...
View ArticleMoody’s: Project Financing for Battery Storage Is Going Mainstream
Utility Dive: Battery storage is increasingly emerging as a project finance opportunity, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service. The Moody’s report notes that the viability of battery...
View ArticleXcel Gets State Nod to Build $1.6 Billion Wind Farm in Southwest U.S.
Associated Press: New Mexico regulators on Wednesday approved a $1.6 billion plan that calls for building two massive wind farms along the Texas-New Mexico border. The unanimous vote by the New Mexico...
View ArticleChinese Solar Company Plays Down U.S. Tariff Barrier as It Proceeds With...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Executives at China-based JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. indicated March 22 that the manufacturer is moving ahead with plans to assemble solar panels at a plant in...
View ArticleIn Ground-Breaking Policy Move, Colorado Enacts Law Allowing Utility...
Denver Post: Colorado has granted electricity users in the state a new right — the ability to store energy without discrimination in rates or excessive barriers in connecting to the grid. “This is...
View ArticleIn a FirstEnergy Bankruptcy, Old Plants Would Close or Go on the Auction Block
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Brutal competitive financial forces are poised to remake FirstEnergy into a utility without power plants and focused solely on delivering electricity. The Akron-based power...
View ArticleMore Wind Power Investment Is Appearing Off More National Shorelines
Financial Times: France is still in the vanguard of innovation in wind power. General Electric’s offshore wind joint venture with Alstom is developing a huge new turbine, the world’s tallest, which...
View ArticleData: Globally, Coal Shutdowns to Exceed New Construction by 2022
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Major indicators of coal power capacity growth fell by double digits in 2017 for the second year in a row, according to a new report by environmental advocates —...
View ArticleVistra, Duke, and FirstEnergy Lead in U.S. Coal-Plant Retirement Trend Likely...
S&P Global Market Intelligence: U.S. power producers plan to take at least 11.4 GW of coal-fired power plant capacity offline in 2018, more than has been retired in a single year since 14.7 GW of...
View ArticleCorporations’ Role Essential in U.S. Grid Modernization
S&P Global Market Intelligence: As planned long-distance transmission lines falter in the United States, corporations must become more involved in the modernization of the power grid to meet their...
View ArticleChile’s Four Biggest Utilities Are Closing Coal Plants and Moving Toward...
Bloomberg News: Engie SA is closing its coal-fired power plants in Chile after deciding there was little point in trying to sell them. The French power company plans to replace the capacity with...
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