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…

Most Americans apparently don’t know about the Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy and EV rebates and tax credits, according to a recent poll – here’s why. Tomorrow will mark a year since President Joe Biden signed the $500 billion Inflation Reduction Act, a game-changing law that’s going to help the US reduce emissions to…

Wind turbine blades and nacelles have arrived for South Fork Wind, the first utility-scale offshore wind farm in US federal waters. South Fork’s wind turbine components have landed at the port of New London, Connecticut, and installation is expected to start this summer. Danish wind giant Ørsted, which is jointly developing South Fork with…

Solar energy powering grid Source: Shutterstock Department of Energy researchers have figured out a way to help keep the grid resilient as the US rapidly electrifies. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have been undertaking research to better understand the effects of electrical faults in the modern US power grid.…