Italy and Greece are planning to install a subsea cable to increase their interconnection capacity and share renewable energy. Italian grid operator Terna announced that a public consultation for the €750 million ($797 million) subsea cable project – GR.ITA 2 – has been greenlighted. Two 250-km (155-mile) subsea cables with up to 1,000 megawatts (MW)…

BP Pulse, The EV Network (EVN) and NEC Group announced the launch of a public electric vehicle (EV) charging hub on the NEC Campus in the West Midlands near the UK. Coined the “Gigahub,” this location was officially opened by The Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP. …

Vermont’s largest utility, Green Mountain Power (GMP), wants to install battery storage for all 270,000 of its customers by 2030. Battery storage for all by 2030 Instead of building more power lines like most utilities to accommodate new clean energy and prevent outages, GMP is taking a different approach. The plan for its 2030…

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…