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Giant 1.5 Gigawatt Wind Farm Planned for France — Its Biggest Clean Energy Project Yet

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TotalEnergies and RWE have been selected to build the largest clean energy power plant in France, a 1.5-gigawatt wind farm. The project is the Centre Manche 2 (AO8) offshore wind farm. Traditionally a fossil fuel giant (and still so), it’s interesting that TotalEnergies has made the shift enough to be … [continued]

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Ivanpah & Heliogen: Lessons from Concentrated Solar’s Decline

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Ivanpah was supposed to be the future. When it opened in the Mojave Desert in 2014, with its three towers glowing like beacons and almost 400 MW of capacity, it was the largest concentrated solar power plant in the world. It had the backing of Google, NRG Energy, BrightSource, and … [continued]

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Seabed Mining Under the Microscope: A Techno-Economic Reality Check

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Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with a global expert on minerals processing and battery minerals, Lyle Trytten. We were closing out an engagement to do a technoeconomic assessment of seabed mining and it was a great opportunity to discuss the space and some of the things we … [continued]

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