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Chinese Solar Panels Are Transforming Africa
China is supplying low cost solar panels to many African nations, including South Africa. Doing so also increases its political power.
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A Tale Of Two Michigans — Solar vs. Data Center Battle Intensifies
People in rural Michigan are celebrating the defeat of a proposed solar farm that would power an Oracle data center.
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38 Coastal, Remote, & Island Communities To Pursue Energy Reliability via Energy Technology Innovation Partnership Project
Latest Cohort Is Program’s Biggest Yet, With Broad Geographic Representation By Justin Daugherty, NLR Remote and island communities face unique energy challenges—but these challenges also present unique opportunities to increase energy affordability, reliability, and security. In their efforts to address their energy challenges, 38 coastal, remote, and island communities will … [continued]
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House Passes SPEED Act, Failing to Lower Energy Costs or Speed Clean Energy Deployment
Washington, DC — Today, the House of Representatives passed the “Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act,” or the SPEED Act. Rather than fixing the real barriers slowing clean energy projects, the SPEED Act weakens the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in ways that would do little to lower costs or … [continued]
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Renewable Energy, Economics, & Inertia
Solar panels cannot add inertia to an electrical grid. For that, we need a spinning device like a synchronous compensator.
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