Enlarge (credit: US Fish and Wildlife Service) Pollinator habitats and solar farms may seem like ecologically great neighbors, but we still don’t understand very much about that relationship. A team of researchers recently published a paper surveying the ins and outs of keeping solar production alongside the kinds of plants that pollinators like bees and […]
Apple’s “California Flats” solar energy farm in Northern California. [credit: Apple ] Apple today announced that it will build a “grid-scale” energy-storage project in California, capable of storing 240 megawatt-hours of energy. The storage will work closely with the 130-megawatt solar farm the company already build to power daytime energy needs at its headquarters in Cupertino. […]
Enlarge / Lots of California’s water delivery system is exposed to the air. (credit: NSF) A major factor driving the growth of solar power in the US has been the economics of large, utility-scale solar projects. The scale of plants ensures that their developers can buy components in bulk; use larger, more robust hardware; and […]
Enlarge / Miraculously, the video at issue did not accuse wind turbines of causing cancer. (credit: Pictures Alliance / Getty Images) Our editor-in-chief obviously hates me. That’s the only conclusion I could reach after he asked me to watch an abysmal attack video targeting renewable energy—a video produced by a notorious source of right-wing misinformation. […]
Facebook is among those world’s biggest corporate buyers of renewable energy, using signed prices for at least 5 gigawatts of all “fresh ” electricity –3.5 gigawatts of that is anticipated to be on line by the end of the year. (One gigawatt is enough to electricity 700,000 houses for per lifetime, according to some estimates) […]
Ray Kurzweil was right. The International Energy Agency now announced solar energy”the new king of power,” saying in its own annual World Energy Outlook which”solar PV is always less costly than new coal- or even gas-fired energy plants in many states, and solar energy jobs today provide a number of the lowest price power ever […]