Photo by Amol Mande on Pexels.com Utility-scale solar and wind provided over half of new US generating capacity added in the first half of 2023, according to new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) data.  The SUN DAY campaign reviewed FERC’s latest monthly “Energy Infrastructure Update” report and found that of the 17,017 megawatts (MW) of…

Dogger Bank, the world’s largest offshore wind farm under construction, is sending power to the UK’s grid for the very first time. The 3.6 gigawatt (GW) Dogger Bank Wind Farm is being built in UK waters 81 miles (130 km) off the Yorkshire coast and in three 1.2 GW phases – Dogger Bank A,…

IKEA Austria has become the company’s first market in the world to use green hydrogen fuel cell trucks. IKEA’s new green hydrogen trucks The Swedish furniture giant paired up with Germany’s Quantron AG to launch five QUANTRON QLI fuel cell electric vehicles – the first hydrogen vehicle in the up to 7.5t fuel cell…

US offshore wind could provide 133 gigawatts (GW) of power by 2050, but that potential is going to be impacted by a broad spectrum of factors, according to a new study. Researchers with the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) felt that the current role of offshore wind power in the…

A Saudi Arabian company has installed the largest wind turbine in Central Asia, in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan. The 6.5 megawatt (MW) wind turbine was made by Chinese wind turbine maker Envision for Saudi Arabia-based ACWA Power, and China Energy Engineering Corporation installed it. Envision says on its website that its 6X MW…

First Solar, the largest solar panel maker in the US, today announced that it will invest $1.1 billion to build a fifth US solar panel production factory. August 10: First Solar announced today that it has selected the Acadiana Regional Airport in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, as the location for its fifth solar panel production…

Vast arrays of floating solar panels near the equator could provide unlimited clean energy to countries in Southeast Asia and West Africa, according to new research. Floating solar in the equator’s waters Engineering professors at Australian National University have published a new paper in which they explain how some regions on the equator would…

Singapore-headquartered Maxeon Solar Technologies has just announced that it’s going to build a $1 billion silicon solar factory in New Mexico – the largest in the US. The 3-gigawatt factory, which will be located in Albuquerque, will produce TOPCon PV-silicon cell technology and Maxeon’s shingled-cell Performance Line solar modules. The new factory will supply…

Despite scientists’ urgent pleas to address climate change, some Americans don’t see it as a priority, and others say it’s not real. Overall, less than half – 46% – of Americans say human activity is the primary reason for climate change. By contrast, 26% say warming is mostly caused by natural patterns in the…

Vestas V236-15.0 MW wind turbine (Source: Vestas) The world’s most powerful wind turbine has broken a world record for the most power produced by a single turbine over a 24-hour period. Danish wind giant Vestas’s V236-15.0 MW prototype produced 363 megawatt-hours of power in a 24-hour period. Vestas installed the 15 megawatt (MW) offshore wind…