Energy waste reduction efforts saved nearly 1.5 million MW hours of electricity and almost 5 million cubic feet of natural gas in 2018, while wind generation of electricity continued its dominance in Michigan as the largest source of renewable energy in 2019, according to two annual reports released today by the Michigan Public Service Commission.
Geronimo Energy, a National Grid company, and Basin Electric Power Cooperative have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the Wild Springs Solar Project. Wild Springs is a 128 MW solar energy project located in Pennington County, South Dakota, approximately 20 miles east of Rapid City. Wild Springs is anticipated to begin operations in 2022. Using the EPA’s greenhouse gas equivalencies calculator, the project is estimated to offset carbon dioxide emissions by 190,000 metric tons annually.
IEA Bioenergy has published today a new report on the potential for advanced biofuels cost reduction carried out under Task 41 with contributions from Germany, Netherlands and Sweden.
Silenos Energy is currently building the Bruck geothermal power plant in Garching an der Alz, Germany. With the 125 degree hot thermal water obtained from 3,840 meters of depth, around 36 million kilowatt hours of green electricity and up to 15 million kilowatt hours per year of renewable heat are to be produced for a district heating network from summer 2020 (this corresponds to the needs of up to 14,000 households).
A new study by intelligent home climate management company tado° has found that UK homes lose heat significantly faster than European neighbours, even when factoring in outside temperature.
Eight out of ten business employees who currently opt out of a company car scheme are ‘likely’ or ‘very likely’ to move back to company cars - and these cars will be electric - according to a survey conducted by DriveElectric, one of the UK’s leading EV leasing companies.
La energética AES Panamá, filial de la estadounidense AES y de la que también el estado es socia, ha anunciado la adjudicación a la española Elecnor de cuatro contratos para construir otros tantos parques fotovoltaicos de 10 MW de capacidad cada uno. Se estima una inversión total de 50 millones de dólares.
