Center for Rural Affairs Releases Report on Iowans' Experiences with Renewable Energy
Lyons, Neb. - Today, the Center for Rural Affairs released “Powering Iowa: Rural Perspectives on Iowa’s Renewable Energy Transformation,” a report examining renewable energy development. Authors of the report, Stephanie Enloe and Katie Rock, use survey results from Iowa county officials and landowners to explore how Iowans are responding to renewable energy technologies, such as wind, solar, and electric transmission lines. “We were happy to see strong support for wind and solar among loca...
Wärtsilä Gas Engines to Provide Reliable Electricity Supply to SUBARU Car Factory and Saitama Heating and Cooling Centre
The technology group Wärtsilä will supply gas engine generating sets for two power plants operated by Tokyo Gas Engineering Solutions Corporation (TGES), a subsidiary of Tokyo Gas, the largest gas utility in Japan. In both cases, lifecycle costs, performance, and reliability of supply were highlighted as being key essentials and a major factor in the choice of Wärtsilä engines. The orders with Wärtsilä were booked in October 2017. A Wärtsilä 34SG engine, which runs on city gas, will supply he...
Cal Poly to Dedicate 4.5 Megawatt (AC) Solar Farm on Jan. 24
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Cal Poly’s new solar farm, the university’s first major energy project since announcing a goal of climate neutrality, was dedicated at a Wednesday, Jan. 24, ceremony at the site. The 18.5-acre solar farm will generate more than 11 million kWh per year — enough to power more than 1,000 homes, or about 25 percent of Cal Poly’s total needs — and includes more than 16,000 individual solar panels with a capacity of 4.5 megawatts (AC). In addition to the environmental...
San Diego to Develop Innovative Hydropower Energy Storage Project
SAN DIEGO, California – Black & Veatch has been selected to serve as owners’ representative for an energy storage facility at the San Vicente Reservoir near Lakeside in San Diego County, California. The project owners, the San Diego County Water Authority and the City of San Diego, are assessing the potential to develop the 500 megawatt (MW) San Vicente Energy Storage Facility (SVESF) to increase the availability and efficiency of renewable energy for the region. It will provide enough stored en...
LevelTen Energy Launches Dynamic Two-Sided Marketplace for Renewable Energy Procurement
LevelTen Energy announced today the launch of their data-driven marketplace, a first-of-its-kind offering built to scale, simplify and standardize renewable energy procurement. LevelTen's marketplace reduces the cost, complexity and risk of renewable energy power purchase agreements (PPAs) through an online platform that offers to both buyers and sellers advanced analytics, standard documentation and process best practices. “The market for green energy is frustratingly opaque for both buyers an...
Islands: Strong. Small. Resilient.
In the face of climate change, Small Island Developing States are strong and resilient. They sit on the frontline of climate change and are leading the way with deploying renewable energy as the solution to a sustainable future.
ACEEE Supports Smart Manufacturing by Partnering with Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute
Washington, DC---ACEEE today announces that it has joined the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII). ACEEE now joins the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC), the U.S. Department of Energy, and numerous academic, industry, and nonprofit partners in their effort to enable the development and deployment of smart manufacturing technologies that can increase energy productivity, economic performance, and workforce expansion in American manufacturing. "Smar...
Wärtsilä and Schneider Electric Join Forces to Create a New Back-Up Power Solution for Data Centers
Wärtsilä and Schneider Electric have signed a global co-operation agreement to bring together their individual products and services, along with those of third parties, for the purpose of co-operating on data center projects. The co-operation focuses on hyperscale data center projects with at least a 10 MW electrical load. The technology group Wärtsilä and Schneider Electric have signed a co-operation agreement in Helsinki in December 2017. The objective of the cooperation is to work together...
Renewable Energy and Cooling Technologies Key to Reduce Water Use in India’s Power Sector
Abu Dhabi, UAE – A new policy brief co-authored by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) finds that increasing the share of renewables, in particular solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind, in India’s power mix, and implementing changes in cooling technologies mandated for thermal power plants would not only lower carbon emissions intensity, but also substantially reduce water withdrawal and consumption intensity of power generation. The brief, W...
REPORT: Untapped Energy in US Wind Fleet Could Power 1.1M Homes
CHICAGO—The current U.S. wind fleet could produce an estimated 12 terawatt hours (TWh) more energy—enough untapped energy to power roughly 1.1 million homes—according to a new report by Uptake, an advanced analytics software company. That’s equal to nearly all the homes in the city of Chicago. “Current wind turbines can produce much more energy than they do today,” said Sonny Garg, global energy solutions lead for Uptake. “With the ability to predict problems before they happen, the potential...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
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