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According to its provisional energy report, Spanish utility Iberdrola SA (BME:IBE) generated 83,294 GWh of electricity from its renewable energy projects worldwide in 2024, a 5% increase from the previous year. According to the data, renewable energy production fell 2.1% to 19,993 GWh in the fourth quarter. In comparison to the same period last year, the output varied across Iberdrola's markets ...
During Climate Week, Governor Kathy Hochul recently (Sept 20) announced two major green energy infrastructure projects to power New York City with wind, solar and hydropower projects from upstate New York and Canada. If approved, these infrastructure projects will create approximately 10,000 jobs statewide and bring $8.2 billion in economic development investments, including ...
Horizon Power, Western Australia's regional and remote energy utility, and PXiSE Energy Solutions, developer of next-generation grid control technology, have collaborated on a first-of-its-kind hydrocarbon-free power grid that enabled a town to power itself entirely with fossil-free distributed energy resources.In the world's first known instance of solar-plus-batteries supplying 100% of a ...
The International Hydropower Association welcomes a “landmark” collaboration agreement between environmental groups and the U.S. hydropower sector, which recognises the need to tackle climate change with renewable energy while also preserving healthy ...
Dominion Energy is proposing the largest offshore wind development in the country to provide more renewable energy to its customers in the Commonwealth and provide a boost to the offshore wind industry on the East Coast. The company filed an application with PJM, the regional transmission organization that coordinates the electrical grid in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, ...
HYDRO 2017, an international conference on hydropower & dams development will take place in Sevilla from 9-11 October 2017. ...
The bulk of the 567 terawatt-hours of renewable electricity generated in 2015—more than 44 percent—came from hydropower, a resource that is largely concentrated in the Northwest. Wind generated 34 percent of the year’s electricity followed by biomass with 11 percent. ...
The Province is providing $150,000 from the Innovative Clean Energy (ICE) Fund to the West Coast Wave Initiative (WCWI) at the University of Victoria to support research into the potential of ocean waves to generate clean, renewable and affordable electricity. “Our B.C. coast is not only one of the province’s most beautiful resources, its waves could also be a source of clean energy, ...
The report, Estimating Renewable Energy Economic Potential in the United States: Methodology and Initial Results, describes a geospatial analysis method used to estimate the economic potential of several renewable resources. Economic potential is a metric that quantifies the amount of economically viable renewable generation that is available at a specific location. Analysis to ...
China invested more than US$89 billion in renewable energy projects in the country in 2014 – a growth of 31% on the previous year, according to a detailed report on the country’s energy sector. The soaring increase is revealed in a report by the US government’s Energy Information Administration (EIA). But it adds that fossil fuels − particularly coal − still look ...
Green power is defined as electricity generated from renewable resources such as wind, solar, geothermal, biogas, biomass and low-impact hydropower. ...
Another feature of EFR is removing harmful subsidies, for example, those given for fossil fuels, and using the revenues saved to stimulate renewable energy and resource-efficient technologies. Studies have demonstrated that environmental taxes can achieve environmental objectives at the same time as raising revenues. ...
The report, Technology Roadmap: Hydropower<http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/TechnologyRoadmapHydropower.pdf>, challenges the notion that the world's hydroelectric resources have peaked. ...
Hilton Worldwide announced today that it received a 2012 Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The annual awards recognize the country’s leading renewable power purchasers for their commitment and contribution to helping advance the development of the nation’s voluntary green power market. EPA presented ...
Green power is generated from renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, and low-impact hydropower – environmentally-preferable resources that produce no net increase of harmful greenhouse gas emissions. ...
” Rockville purchased more than 67 million kWh from renewable resources, the 10th highest. Green power is generated from resources including solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biogas, and low-impact hydropower. These resources produce electricity with significantly fewer greenhouse gas emissions. ...
” Green power is generated from resources including solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biogas, and low-impact hydropower. These resources produce electricity with significantly fewer greenhouse gas emissions. ...
Green power is generated from renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biogas, and low-impact hydropower. Green power resources produce electricity with an environmental profile superior to conventional power technologies, and produce significantly fewer greenhouse gas ...
The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Natural Resources, delivered keynote remarks. The Forum on Hydropower is an annual event organized by the Canadian Hydropower Association. "Canada exports an average of 40 terawatt hours per year of hydropower to the United States," said Jacob Irving, president of the Canadian ...
Green power is generated from renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, and low-impact hydropower. Green power resources produce electricity with an environmental profile superior to conventional power technologies, and produce no net increase of greenhouse gas ...