TVA gauging public appetite for Yum Yum
The TVA wants public help in deciding whether it’s no or no-go on harnessing the sun at Yum Yum.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is seeking public input on an environmental assessment for the Yum Yum solar project....
175-MW solar facility to power Johns Hopkins, McCormick and TJX
Constellation this week
announced that it has signed an agreement with three major commercial customers
to power their operations with renewable energy. At 175 megawatts, this project
is the largest of its kind for Constellation, an Exelon company.
Major...
Virginia sets goal to produce 100 percent of electricity from carbon-free sources by 2050
Yesterday, Virginia Governor Ralph
Northam signed Executive Order Forty-Three, which establishes ambitious
statewide goals and targets for clean energy deployment and expands upon the
Commonwealth’s commitments to reduce its environmental impact, mitigate the
impacts of climate change, and...
Former Tesla exec bets big on Brazilian batteries
Laura Millan Lombrana, Bloomberg
Marco Krapels left Tesla Inc. and started a battery company in a place that’s a hemisphere away from California’s rarefied clean-energy scene: Brazil.
Krapels, Tesla’s former vice president for international expansion of...
OPG says 10-MW expansion of Ranney Falls to be complete by end of October
The 10-MW expansion of
the Ranney Falls Generating Station, which will double the station’s capacity, should
be complete by end of October, Canadian utility Ontario Power Generation says.
OPG is replacing the station’s G3 unit – a...
Blade-signing event held for construction of 242-MW wind farm in Missouri
A celebration and blade-signing
event took place this week for the 242-MW Tenaska Clear Creek Energy Center, a wind
farm being built north of Maryville, Mo.
Tenaska says this wind farm will contain 111 turbines, supplied by...
Operations achieved at 290-MW Nam Ngiep 1 hydropower plant between Laos and Thailand
Kansai Electric Power
Co. Inc. announces that the 290-MW Nam Ngiep 1 hydropower plant has begun
commercial operations.
The plant is operated
by Nam Ngiep 1 Power Company, which received the Commercial Operation Date
certificate from the Electricity Generating...
Holtec, Eos create battery manufacturing JV
Eos Energy Storage and energy equipment firm Holtec International are creating a joint venture to produce Eos’ next generation of large-scale zinc batteries.
HI-POWER LLC will combine Eos’ automated battery manufacturing design and Holtec’s infrastructure experience to...
UK closes in on first geothermal power after successful drilling outcome
By Jeremy Hodges
The U.K. could be producing electricity from a geothermal plant for the first time early next decade after drilling at a site in southwest England showed it could become a viable part of...
Fifth GE wind turbine collapse leaves worker injured
A utility worker at the Delta 6 wind park in Brazil has been injured following yet another collapse of a GE turbine, bringing the total number of turbines to have failed in the America’s to five...
