Following up on the history of solar power, I thought I’d run down the history of wind turbines a bit. Enjoy! People have caught the wind to propel their boats for many thousands of years. I’m ...

Image art by Paul Gerke via ChatGPT-4o. In what appears to be an unwitting ongoing act of self-sabotage that threatens grid reliability in an era of rapid load growth, the United States federal ...

Experts anticipate significant growth in onshore and offshore turbine size. Credit: Berkley Lab Technology and commercial advancements are expected to continue to drive down the cost of wind energy, ...

In a continued effort to limit its use of fossil fuels to mitigate peaks, Georgia Power Company is adding a whole mess of new BESS. Earlier this month, Georgia Power Company submitted its 2023 ...

A consulting team consisting of NIRAS, Inuplan and AFRY has been awarded a contract to act as client consultant for expansion of the Buksefjord hydroelectric power plant in Greenland. NunaGreen A/S ...

Hanwha Qcells is still working towards full operations at its sprawling solar supply chain facility in Cartersville, Georgia, but the company already has a plan for what to do with panels that reach ...

A Connexus Energy lineworker carrying out tasks related to a recent work order. The aging workforce “gap” that threatened the labor pool of U.S. utilities has largely been addressed, according to a ...

San Diego, Calif. — Farmers in Japan can now generate solar electricity while growing crops on the same farmland. In April, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) approved the ...

Itron has announced a collaboration with Xcel Energy to manage the growing amount of distributed energy resources (DERs) in Colorado, including the record growth of residential battery energy storage.

New Hampshire, USA — New statistics from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) reveal exactly how much land is needed to site a solar plant of various sizes and technologies, based on actual ...

A 2013 inductee into Hydro Review‘s Hydro Hall of Fame, the Ames hydro plant on the South Fork of the San Miguel River in southwest Colorado made hydropower history in 1891 when it utilized ...

You probably know what a watt is. It’s a unit of power. Old, inefficient incandescent light bulbs were rated by how many watts they used (e.g., 60 watts, 70 watts, or 100 watts). A kilowatt is 1000 ...