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A common criticism of a total transition to wind, water and solar power is that the US electrical grid can’t affordably store enough standby electricity to keep the system stable. Now a researcher proposes an underground solution to that problem. Read more here:: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/matter_energy/solar_energy/~3/kq2xDvoY280/151124112138.htm

Sweden’s “Minister for the Future” believes in a fossil-free future with economic growth By 2030, Sweden plans to become a fossil-free country and will be one of the world’s first fossil-free welfare nations. The benefits are clear in terms of creating a better environment, more attractive cities and new opportunities…

Unilever and Mars were among the first household names in the food and drink industry to announce plans for a 100% shift to renewable energy. But few of them have a specific deadline, while some still heavily rely on biomass, which is controversial, because of potential competition with food crops.…

DAVIS, Calif., Nov. 23, 2015 – World Of Photovoltaics – University of California (UC), Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi and SunPower representatives today are dedicating the university’s newly constructed 16.3-megawatt (AC) solar power plant. The new plant, which is estimated by UC Davis to generate 14 percent of the campus’ total electricity…

New Market Research Reports Title “Global Solar PV Inverter Market Share, Size, Growth, Analysis, Trends & Forecast to 2020: Acute Market Reports” Has Been Added to AcuteMarketReports.com Report Database. Solar PV Inverter Market, Update 2015 Segmentation, Market Size, Competitive Landscape, and Analysis to 2020″ is the latest report from GlobalData,…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday announced it will build and operate a 100-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Ohio that will power its current and future cloud service data centres. The project, called the Amazon Wind Farm US Central, is expected to generate about 320,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of wind…

Net-zero-energy (NZE) buildings were the focus at a recent conference in California, a state that has mandated that all new residential buildings achieve NZE status by 2020. In addition, all new commercial buildings must be net-zero energy by 2030, and 50 percent of the existing commercial structures must be retrofitted…

Wind energy could be the largest power supply source in the EU by 2030 as long as governments drive ambition in climate and energy policies, according to a new European Wind Energy Association report. The Aiming High report suggests that wind power has the potential to exceed gas and other…

The French Ministry of Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (MEDDE) has revealed that it will allocate 4,350 MW of PV power through the solar auctions that will be held from the first quarter of 2016 to the first quarter of 2019. The auction calendar was included in a…

By By JEFF BIGGERS In America’s heartland, farmers are taking steps to help the environment and return carbon to the soil. …read more Read more here:: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/iowas-climate-change-wisdom.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss