Recent ArticlesGia Schneider and her brother Abe started Natel Energy based on a hydropower turbine their father designed. And after more than a decade of R&D, pilots, software development and a project for Apple, Natel is preparing for the next level of scale. “Our objectives have actually not wavered. But they haven’t wavered because of rigid adherence to dogma, they have not wavered because we check in consistently about ‘is this the right problem to solve?’” says Schneider. Natel is commercializing...
A court this week again rebuffed the Trump administration's efforts to put tariffs on imported bifacial solar modules. A Wednesday ruling from the United States Court of International Trade means the federal government must continue to allow bifacial solar panels to enter the U.S. duty-free, despite the administration’s repeated attempts to include them in its solar tariffs. U.S. utility-scale solar developers have been excited to install cutting-edge bifacial panels, which enhance efficiency...
The U.S. Treasury Department released guidance Wednesday that offers onshore wind and solar projects more time to meet tax credit deadlines, an acknowledgment of the challenges brought by the coronavirus lockdown. Wind was the big winner: Onshore projects that started construction in 2016 and 2017 will now have five rather than four years to finish construction while still receiving their Production Tax Credit (PTC) benefits. Solar developers got some help too, with the IRS allowing equipment...
American Electric Power has secured enough state regulator approvals to move ahead with a 1,485-megawatt wind power project in Oklahoma — even if Texas regulators end up denying its plans. AEP announced on Wednesday that it has received approvals from Louisiana and Arkansas regulators that will allow its $2 billion North Central Wind project to move ahead. The wind farms being developed in Oklahoma by Invenergy and using GE wind turbines will supply 675 megawatts of power to AEP utility Publi...
The U.S. got more energy from renewables in 2019 than it did from coal, a year sooner than that same milestone is expected for the electricity sector on its own, according to the Energy Information Administration. Last year the U.S. consumed 11.3 quadrillion British thermal units of coal, the lowest level since 1964. By comparison, total consumption of renewable energy hit a record-high 11.5 quads, the EIA said Thursday, as the country’s base of wind and solar farms continued to expand. Prior...
