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Renewables May Prove Cheaper Than 96% of Coal Plants Worldwide by 2030“Over time, these coal-fired power plants will just become more and more unviable.”
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California’s Rooftop Solar Mandate Wins Final ApprovalThe California Building Standards Commission has signed off on the residential solar mandate—a first of its kind for the nation.
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European Utilities Muscle Into Energy StorageBut they must deal with dropping frequency regulation prices, a sluggish C&I market and Brexit concerns.
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PG&E’s Record-Breaking Battery Proposal Wins Approval From RegulatorsThe Moss Landing procurement will be the biggest example yet of battery plants replacing gas plants for grid reliability.
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Report: US on Track for Record Coal Retirements in 2018, With More on the WayResearch suggests 36.7 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity could retire through 2024—even with a repeal of the Clean Power Plan.
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Duke Energy Could Spend Half a Billion Dollars on Battery Storage—Or a Lot MoreThe utility’s Carolina storage projections ballooned since last year. Chances are they will do so again.
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The Death of Global Coal GrowthCoal is experiencing its last gasp, writes Justin Guay of the ClimateWorks Foundation.
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FirstEnergy Can Safely Retire 4GW of Fossil Fuel Generation, per PJMPJM rejects concerns about reliability, says it has “adequate power supplies and healthy reserves in operation.”
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The Solar Singularity: A Status Report on the Global Clean Energy TransitionTam Hunt provides a 2018 update to his Solar Singularity series.
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Sunpreme Plans Texas Cell and Module Facility in 2019The first cell manufacturing announcement since the Trump administration imposed tariffs.
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Solar Industry Seeks to Slash Red Tape With New Automated Permitting InitiativeStreamlining will cut down costs for U.S. rooftop solar installations—which may be a lifesaver for the industry as federal tax credits phase out.
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6 Charts Showing the Renewables Threat to Natural GasWhy build gas peakers when solar or wind plus energy storage is cheaper?
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ARPA-E Funds Research on Energy Storage That Can Last for DaysNew program funnels $28 million to flow batteries, thermal and chemical energy storage, and other long-duration technologies.
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Facebook Pledges to Buy 100% Renewable Energy by 2020The social media company has upped its ambitions in the midst of the biggest year yet for corporate renewables.
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Average US Wind Price Falls to $20 per Megawatt-HourWind prices have dropped by $50 per megawatt-hour in eight years, new DOE research shows.
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Lithium-Ion Storage Installs Could Grow 55% Every Year Through 2022Good luck finding that kind of growth anywhere else in the power sector.
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North America’s Largest Customer-Sited Battery to Date Deployed in OntarioAt 10 megawatts, it’s bigger than many of the utility-scale systems that have come online this year.
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Report: Cheap Natural Gas and Renewables Could Close Half of US Coal Fleet by 2030Rhodium Group sees coal’s demise accelerating, absent “market interventions at a grand scale.”
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Trump Admin’s Push for Coal, Nuke Bailout Reflected in Key Staff Positions at Federal AgenciesPlans to nominate a pro-coal partisan for FERC commissioner, partisan comments from FERC’s chief of staff, and more evidence of political pressure at DOE.
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German Commission Grapples With an End to Coal: ‘The Biggest Story No One Is Talking About’Germany’s efforts to phase out coal could send a powerful signal to the rest of the world.
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