Follow @EngelsAngle If Duke Energy avoids natural gas capacity additions and adds renewable energy and energy storage under a proposed North Carolina law, the utility could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 74% over the next decade, according to a study. Economists at The Battle Group prepared the study, A Pathway to Decarbonization: Generation Cost & …
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Follow @EngelsAngle Shell will install 50,000 on-street electric vehicle chargers in the UK by 2025, the company announced on Wednesday. The rollout of charging stations will be done by ubitricity, which Shell acquired in February. Ubitricity — owner of the largest public EV charging network in the UK — embeds its technology into existing street …
Follow @EngelsAngle The first community solar program in the U.S. to automatically enroll residents is now active in Western New York. The community choice solar program has been made available to more than 3,800 households and small businesses in Brockport and Lima as part of Joule Community Power’s Finger Lakes Community Choice program. All eligible …
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Follow @EngelsAngle The global push to produce all electricity from clean sources won’t be enough to meet the net-zero target of the Paris climate agreement, according to a new report from energy consultant DNV. DNV’s fifth annual Energy Transition Outlook comes two months before COP26, the climate summit of world leaders, in Glasgow. At COP21, …
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Contributed by Dr. Torill Bigg, Tunley Engineering As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. Two seemingly interchangeable terms often seen are ‘Carbon Neutral’ and ‘Net …
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Follow @EngelsAngle Solar software company Raptor Maps released a guide that outlines steps and best practices for inspecting solar PV systems from manned aircraft. The 18-page report supplements training materials that the company previously released for solar PV inspections using drones. “Solar asset owners and operators have a right to specify the quality of work …
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For an economy and a culture that thrives on fast cars, fast food, and instant gratification for virtually everything, the very lengthy process for interconnecting renewable energy resources into the electric grid is frustrating, to say the least. In order to connect new generation resources, like wind or solar, to the transmission grid, a developer …
