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Maryland’s highest court rules state can trump counties in deciding where solar, wind projects can go
Maryland's highest court has ruled that state utility regulators have the power to trump county government objections in approving solar and wind energy projects, appearing to settle an issue that has stalled renewable energy development in rural parts of the state.
5 Reasons Why We Shouldn’t Keep Subsidizing Wind And Solar Energy
In the long run, subsidies actually hurt the very industries they’re supposed to help.
Why the Country’s First Offshore Wind Farm Is Such a Big Deal
Why Natural Gas Is So Important to Wind and Solar
Natural gas pipeline giant Kinder Morgan details why natural gas is the key to growing renewables in the U.S.
What Energy Efficiency Can Learn From Solar, Uber and Spotify
The “as-a-service” model is coming for smaller energy-efficiency projects, argues Angela Ferrante.
WEC Energy bets on solar, wind and natural gas. So, what about coal?
Solar and wind projects are the least expensive way for utilities to add new power generation. And that's changing how utilities plan to operate.
Energy Suppliers Find Fresh Lift From Offshore Wind
For energy-services companies, finding new revenue streams is crucial as oil and gas from onshore shale formations flood the market—and many suppliers are seeking to diversify into offshore wind.
If solar and wind are so cheap, why are their haters making so much noise
A report from US research labs shows natural gas as the leading reason wholesale electricity pricing has fallen over the last decade across the country, however, looking at key markets it is clear there are larger downward effects where wind and solar have been most heavily deployed.
How the U.S. power grid is evolving to handle solar and wind
As renewable energy sources move mainstream, electricity generation and distribution systems are getting an extreme makeover.
Why Isn’t Wind As Sexy As Solar?
Solar startups get all the hype, but strong bipartisan support and new forays offshore have positioned wind to be a major player in the U.S. energy landscape–even under a climate-change-denying administration.
How Engineers Are Turning Wind Into Protein to Alleviate World Hunger
Researchers are attempting to use the extra energy from renewables' active periods into protein powder that may one day feed humanity.
How 11 Countries Are Leading The Shift To Renewable Energy
Who’s embracing wind? Solar? Geothermal? These countries could provide blueprints for the worldwide shift to renewable energy.
Why a Big Utility Is Embracing Wind and Solar
Building renewable plants from scratch has become cheaper in some parts of the country than operating old coal-fired plants.
What cheap solar and battery storage mean for energy's future
BP publishes its outlook for the world's energy future: Renewables and battery storage play an important role, but so do oil and gas with new extraction techniques.
This is How Wind and Solar Energy Will Crush Fossil Fuels
Wind and solar energy can't make fossil fuels obsolete by themselves, but they can with the help of cheap energy storage.
Why the public is not buying Coalition attack on wind and solar
The Coalition’s attack on renewables is being undone by the soaring electricity prices in fossil-fuel dependent Queensland. What is it that the general public appears knows about renewables a…
7 Factors Show Why Wind & Solar Are The 1st Choices
Discussions of electrical generation technologies frequently fall into the trap of considering a single factor. One way this occurs is with advocates of a specific legacy technology pointing out a single downside of wind or solar generation as if it's a gotcha. This is equally true of wind and solar advocates who point at single-factor
Solar, wind, storage and big data: Why energy may soon be free
New report from Citi suggests that the combination of solar, wind, storage and big data will finally deliver on the promise – made half a century ago by nuclear boosters – of “fre…
How Low Cost Wind & Solar Push The Market For Renewable Hydrogen
With help from low cost wind and solar, renewable hydrogen could squeeze natural gas out of ammonia production and other major industrial markets
Why the nuclear lobby makes stuff up about cost of wind and solar
Nuclear lobby has been making such extraordinary and outrageous claims about wind, solar and batteries it makes you wonder if anything they say about energy can be taken seriously.
Who should hold “hot potato” of connection costs for wind and solar farms?
Developers and contractors want more clarity, and fewer last minute changes, to connections for wind and solar projects.
