Industry News

We take an in-depth look at how utilities are addressing cybersecurity on a distributed grid, hardening against natural disasters and training utility workers. […]

The BWRX-300 is a 300 MWe reactor that is expected to require up to 60% less capital costs per MW than conventional light water reactors. […]

Renewable energy generation is still on the rise in Germany, though at a much lower pace than in the years around 2010, writes Marius Buchmann of Jacobs University in a detailed overview of the German electricity market in 2017. Costs of the feed-in tariff are stagnating, notes Buchmann, but redispatch costs which grid operators incur to keep the system stable, reached a new record far above €1 billion […]

E.On and Google are to bring their Sunroof platform to British households in the coming weeks as the companies hope to replicate the success of the solar modelling tool in Germany, where it has been used by more than 10,000 customers. […]

Leeuwarden, 2018 European Cultural Capital from the Netherlands, will be heaven for electric vehicles for two weeks. From July 1st through 14th, an electric driving world record should be broken by Frisian and international e-drivers […]

The project can demonstrate how large amounts of solar and batteries can be integrated with microgrids. […]

Australian firm Carnegie Clean Energy has raised AU$5.3 million (~US$4 million) to grow its solar PV, battery storage and wave energy businesses. […]

Spanish firm Solarpack has been selected, via its subsidiary Ekialde Solar, to develop five solar systems with a total power of 133MW in the Indian state of Karnataka. […]

The most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week were ... some weird ones. Have a look, read what you missed, and share everything with the world! Topics include electric car sales, the EV revolution, the Tesla Model 3, mowing your lawn(!), the Nissan LEAF, the Chevy Bolt, BMW EVs & PHEVs, EV charging, and mor […]

South Australia transmission company ElectraNet says it has found a cheaper solution that using the state’s gas plants to provide system strength to the local grid. […]

The biggest and most modern gas generation units in South Australia have been out of action for the past month. […]

The Fully Charged crew recently met up with the guys at QWest who have developed a custom Tesla Model S Shooting-brake, which is more commonly known as a wagon on this side of the pond. It is perhaps the only Tesla out there where people spend more time looking at the rear end than the usual juicy bits like the touchscreen […]

Construction underway on 144MW Cattle Hill Wind Farm, which will boost Tasmania's wind capacity by 50%. […]

IEEFA report shows solar taking an increasingly prominent role in driving the ongoing transformation of global electricity generation. […]

New study pin-points yet another barrier to the global shift to EVs – and it's coming up at the point of sale. The research adds a new party to the list of incumbent industry groups whose business case is being threatened by EVs: car dealers. […]