Panorama

Judith Garber to Head US Delegation at COP24

Friday, 30 November 2018 Dan McCue COP24, the 24th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, will take place on December 3-14, in Katowice, Poland. The event will be attended ...

Government Climate Report Warns of Worsening Disasters and Shrinking Economy

Saturday, 24 November 2018 Dan McCue Climate change could significantly worsen the havoc created by natural disasters and cost the united states hundreds of billions of dollars every year by the end of this century unless more is done on ...

USDA Announces Investments to Improve Rural Electric Infrastructure and Increase Grid Resilience

Thursday, 08 November 2018 REM Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development, Anne Hazlett, unveiled that USDA is investing $1.6 billion in 46 rural electric utility infrastructure projects to improve electric reliability and resilience ...

Energy Web Foundation and PJM-EIS Collaborate on Blockchain-Based Tool

Friday, 26 October 2018 REM Energy Web Foundation and PJM Environmental Information Services, Inc. are collaborating on a project to develop and test a market-wide reference implementation of Energy Web Origin for the Generation ...

BIRD Energy awards multi-year R&D grant to GenCell Energy and American Energy Technologies

Tuesday, 11 September 2018 Robin Whitlock Fuel cell power solution provider and manufacturer GenCell Energy and American Energy Technologies Company (AETC) have been awarded a multi-year grant by the Israel-united states Binational Industrial ...

GCube launches cyber risk cover for renewables

Friday, 07 September 2018 Robin Whitlock Leading renewable energy underwriter GCube has launched a new Cyber Risk policy designed to tackle the specific threats posed to clean energy asset owners by a recent rise in cyberattacks on global power ...

Canada

Siemens and Mortenson consortium complete Bipole III HVDC Converter Stations in Canada

Tuesday, 28 August 2018 Robin Whitlock

Siemens and Mortenson have completed the ± 500-kilovolt (kV) Bipole III high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) power converter stations for the Manitoba Hydro III transmission project in Canada.

Companies Collaborate to Accelerate Renewable Energy Development in Illinois and Virginia

Wednesday, 08 August 2018 Dan McCue Apple, Akamai, Etsy and Swiss Re have signed an agreement to develop two new wind and solar energy farms in Illinois and Virginia. The new projects will generate 290 MW to the PJM electric grid serving ...

HyperSolar announces successful stability test on its hydrogen device

Wednesday, 11 July 2018 Robin Whitlock HyperSolar, the developer of technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water, has announced that the recent stability test of of its proprietary fully integrated hydrogen ...

Renewable Energy in the USA: Infographic

Tuesday, 03 July 2018 REM Renewable energy software company Greenbyte has gathered the data for renewable energy in the USA. After a series of infographics on European countries, Greenbyte now focuses on the other side of the ocean ...