"Unprecedented” project shift is urged as UN report amplifies climate change impact warning and energy sector CO2 emissions are projected to increase 7% in 2021.
Developers Orsted and Shell-EDF will build projects totaling 2,568 MW and boost supply chains, but onshore grid connections remain logistical and political challenge
State will speed up work by three years on 585-mile Greenlink transmission line to connect to solar, geothermal and wind energy resources; 2021 world power investment to rise 5% to record $820 billion, says global energy monitor's new analysis.
Ontario 250MW facility, Canada's largest, could get federal infrastructure bank investment, while U.K. regulators approved record-size lithium-ion storage project in November.
States, grid operators and firms make moves to expand transmission capacity to integrate renewable energy projects power to high-demand areas. as they await cues from a new Biden Administration
Kiewit, GE build pioneering hydrogen-natural gas blended plant in Ohio, while Canada and EU nations launch new strategies in a transforming energy sector
Only 20 out of 100 U.S. cities surveyed in the 2020 City Clean Energy Scorecard have community-wide greenhouse gas reduction goals and are on track to meet them.
Renewables producers charge in U.S. lawsuit that agency decisions keep them from U.S. power grid, but sector still sees battery storage growth and more manufacturers in supply chain.