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EDF Sells Stakes In Big U.S. Wind, Solar Portfolio
EDF Renewables has signed purchase and sale agreements with PGGM Infrastructure Fund for several U.S. wind and solar projects.
PGGM - a cooperative Dutch pension fund...
Software Start-Up Clir Aims To Increase Wind Farm Performance
Clir, a Vancouver-based renewable energy software start-up, has raised C$2.1 million in a seed-stage financing round.
Gareth Brown, the CEO and founder of Clir, has...
Thanks To Batteries, Wind And Solar Could Power Half The World By 2050
Increasingly cheaper battery storage could help wind and solar rise to 50% of the world's electricity generation by 2050, according to new predictions from...
New ACORE Campaign Shoots For $1 Trillion U.S. Renewables Investments
The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) has launched a new campaign that aims to reach a whopping $1 trillion in new U.S. private-sector...
Samsung To Source 100% Renewable Energy In U.S., Europe And China
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced plans to source renewable energy for 100% of the energy used for all of its factories, office buildings and...
Michigan’s Consumers Energy To Hike Up Renewables, End Coal
Consumers Energy, a provider of electric and natural gas service to 6.7 million Michigan residents, has announced a new plan to meet the state'e...
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Plans Green Bonds
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has announced plans to issue an inaugural green bond, providing additional funding for CPPIB as it increases its holdings...
Minnesota’s Metropolitan Council Switching To Renewables
Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy is joining forces with the Metropolitan Council, one of the top 10 electrical consumers in Minnesota, to dramatically increase the council’s...
Telecom Company Plans Drastic Shift To 100% Renewable Energy
U.K.-based Vodafone Group PLC, one of the world's largest telecommunications companies, has joined the RE100 initiative and committed to purchase 100% of the electricity it...
U.S. Mayors Announce Large-Scale Renewable Energy Initiative
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh has announced plans to issue a request for information (RFI) for competitive pricing of large-scale renewable energy projects for...
Renewable Energy Education Program Launches For North Carolina Youth
With the help of First Bank, as many as 200 middle schoolers across seven North Carolina counties will have the opportunity to learn more...
Lincoln Clean Energy Names New Financing Exec
U.S. solar and wind developer Lincoln Clean Energy (LCE), a portfolio company of I Squared Capital, has announced the addition of Vishal Kapadia as senior...
Some Sectors Seeing Little Change In Renewables Adoption: REN21
Renewable power accounted for 70% of net additions to global power generating capacity in 2017, representing the largest increase in renewable power capacity in...
Trump Administration Memo Reveals Coal Bailout Plans; Energy Groups Counter
The Trump administration reportedly has plans in the works to direct U.S. grid operators to purchase power from struggling coal and nuclear facilities -...
U.S. Climate Alliance Digs Deeper One Year After Trump’s Paris Agreement Announcement
To mark the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's announcement to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, D-N.Y., has announced...
Siemens Gamesa Makes Headway On Hybridization Of Renewable Energy
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has commissioned a redox flow energy storage system at its hybrid wind and solar La Plana project near Zaragoza,...
Westar And Great Plains Energy Get Green Light To Join Forces As Evergy Inc.
Midwest utilities Great Plains Energy Inc., which serves customers as KCP&L, and Westar Energy Inc. have received final regulatory approval from the Kansas Corporation Commission...
Wind And Solar See Big Jumps In This Year’s PJM Capacity Auction
PJM Interconnection has released the results of its annual capacity auction, which successfully procured diverse and competitive power supplies for the 65 million people...
Portland General Electric Seeks Bids For Renewable Energy
Portland General Electric Co. (PGE), which serves 877,000 customers in 51 cities in Oregon, has issued a request for proposals (RFP) seeking an additional...
N.J. Governor Signs Legislation Signaling State Is ‘Ready For Clean Energy Investment’
Clean energy groups are applauding the passage of a New Jersey bill they say will revive the renewable energy industry in the state.
On Wednesday,...