A Swiss startup is using reclaimed wind turbine blades instead of metal beams as horizontal supports for solar panels. Solar panels, meet wind turbine blades Founded in 2022, Turn2Sun is based in Neuchâtel and calls its use of second-life wind turbine blades to support solar panels “Blade2Sun.” The…
Read MoreThe world’s first offshore wind–green hydrogen pilot has just produced its first green hydrogen off the coast of France. Wind-generated electricity can power water electrolysis – that’s the process of using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen – to produce green hydrogen, and this is exactly what…
Read MoreA 16-megawatt (MW) wind turbine – the world’s largest – is now in place off the southeastern coast of China. June 29: These folks really didn’t mess around. Developer China Three Gorges (CTG) and wind turbine maker Goldwind have announced that the world’s largest turbine is now up…
Read MoreAll of Detroit’s municipal buildings are going to be powered by neighborhood solar as part of the city’s efforts to combat climate change – check out the city’s cool grassroots plan. Meet Detroit Rock Solar City. The city has determined that it’s going to need around 250 acres…
Read MoreSolar is growing at 33.7% year-on-year and is now at twice the capacity of coal power in China, according to a new report. Solar and coal in China Today, the China Electricity Council, a state-approved nonprofit national trade association, released its first-quarter report, the “Operational Situation of [the]…
Read MoreNew US-India joint venture VSK Energy has announced it will invest up to $1.5 billion to develop a vertically integrated solar manufacturing operation in the US, and it’s starting in Colorado. VSK Energy is made up of India-headquartered global solar module maker Vikram Solar and New York-based investors…
Read MoreSiemens Gamesa reviewed its wind turbine fleet’s failure rates and discovered that it has much bigger problems than it thought – and that they could take years to fix. Big wind turbine problems at Siemens Gamesa Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA – one of the largest wind turbine makers…
Read MoreSouth Fork Wind, New York State’s first offshore wind farm, has achieved its “steel in the water” milestone with the installation of the project’s first monopile foundation. South Fork Wind will next install the first US-built offshore substation. Hundreds of US workers and three Northeast ports will support…
Read MoreSouth America’s largest floating solar farm is now online, and it’s paired with hydropower, which boosts energy reliability and production. Sausalito, California-based Noria Energy and partners developed the 1.5 megawatt (MW) floating solar pilot project – the largest of its kind in South America – for independent power producer URRÁ.…
Read MoreThe TransWest Express, a landmark transmission project that will carry clean energy from North America’s largest wind farm in Wyoming to the US Southwest, has broken ground. The TransWest Express Transmission Project (TWE) will carry electricity generated by Chokecherry and Sierra Madre, the largest onshore wind project in…
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