Good News Notes: “For a brief period a few days ago, Bordesholm in Germany became a showcase for how entire communities could switch over to renewable energy, with the backing of energy storage capacity.” “Solar inverter maker SMA’s devices, including its Sunny Central Storage battery inverter and SMA Hybrid Controller XL, were used in a…
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Amazon announces three renewable energy projects in Spain and the US
Good News Notes: “These three projects will begin construction in both the US and Spain. The first will be a solar farm in Sevilla, Spain, and it will provide 149 megawatts of “new renewable capacity” to the region. Amazon says this project will be the company’s first “large-scale” renewable energy effort in the country. The next two…
Renewable Energy Use Projected to Surpass Coal by 2021
Good News Notes: “The United States will likely get more power in 2021 from renewable energy than from coal, the Institute for Energy Economic and Financial Analysis has projected, CNN reported Wednesday.” “‘The next piece of the energy transition is very close at hand,’ Greentech Capital Advisors partner PJ Deschenes said. ‘Coal is coming offline as…
Columbia adding more renewable energy with new solar field
Good News Notes: “The City of Columbia is moving forward with the creation of a new solar field after the city council unanimously authorized the purchase at their meeting Monday night.” “The new field will help push Columbia closer to its 2023 requirement of 25% of its energy coming from renewable sources. That figure was…
Supes Approve $4.5 Million Renewable Energy Project
Good News Notes: “On November 19, the Board of Supervisors approved a $4.5 million proposal to move forward with the installation of new renewable energy infrastructure at Santa Barbara County’s Betteravia campus of government offices in Santa Maria, as well as Fire Station 12 in Goleta.” “With funding coming from a combination of general funds…
Could Bill Gates’ Secret Startup Kill Fossil Fuels?
Good News Notes: “A clean energy startup, backed by Bill Gates, says it has achieved for the first time commercially very high temperatures from solar energy that could replace the need for fossil fuels in many heavily energy-intensive industries such as steel, cement, and petrochemicals production.” “The new company, Heliogen, announced its launch on Tuesday alongside…
Yemenis go solar amid war energy shortage
Good News Notes: “When electricity was cut to Yemen’s capital four years ago after war broke out, Ebrahim al-Faqih saw a gap in the market and started selling solar panels.” “The United Nations estimates that only 10% of the population had access to electricity after the conflict began.” “Many areas need pumps to bring drinking…
Solar panels waste a lot of energy. Scientists have a plan to capture it.
Good News Notes: “Scientists from the University of Groningen and Nanyang Technological University have developed a means of harnessing otherwise-wasted electrons from semiconductors, a boost that could mean zero-emission solar panels could collect even more energy. The team’s findings were published Friday in the journal Science Advances.” “The breakthrough could be another step in the race…
Black Hawk County advances solar energy project
Good News Notes: “Black Hawk County is moving ahead with plans to install solar energy panels at eight county-owned buildings.” “This is not only going to have a financial impact — it’s going to save millions of dollars over the coming decades — but also it’s the equivalent of planting over 300,000 trees,” Schwartz added….
Offshore windfarms ‘can provide more electricity than the world needs’
Good News Notes: “A detailed study of the world’s coastlines has found that offshore windfarms alone could provide more electricity than the world needs – even if they are only built in windy regions in shallow waters near the shore.” “Analysis by the International Energy Agency (IEA) revealed that if windfarms were built across all useable…