Tag: power
58 Gigawatts Of Solar Power Are Hiding In Plain Sight
For all the efforts of the Trump administration to trample on the renewable energy momentum, the hits just keep on coming. Gigantic utility-scale solar plants get most of the attention, of course, but according to the US Energy Information Agency, as of last October, a total of 58.1 gigawatts’ worth … [continued]
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Experimental Acres program highlights on-farm sustainability
Six Grey County farmers completed trials this year
When Next-Generation Geothermal Meets First-of-a-Kind Reality
Eavor is a next-generation geothermal energy company that set out to solve one of the long-standing limits of geothermal power. Conventional geothermal electrical generation only works where naturally permeable, water bearing hot rock exists close enough to the surface. Eavor’s idea was different. Instead of relying on naturally flowing hot … [continued]
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UK Gets More Offshore Wind As Trump Tries To Block It
At every stage of technological development, you get laggards who don’t want to move forward and make that new technology into some kind of massive risk or problem. That has been proven quite definitively with clean energy technologies. Solar power and wind power come with so many benefits and so … [continued]
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Trump Redirects Pollution-Control Funding to Prop Up More Polluting Coal Plants
Washington, D.C. — Today, Politico reported that the Trump administration will use funding legally directed by Congress to reduce pollution to instead help build new and prop up aging, expensive, polluting coal plants. Responding to competitive pressure from lower cost and lower risk resources, utilities have voluntarily retired 158 coal plants over … [continued]
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