The largest-ever US sale of offshore wind development rights – for regions off the shores of New York and New Jersey – garnered record-setting bids on Wednesday from firms hoping to be a part of President Joe Biden’s ambition to establish a flourishing new domestic sector, according to Aljazeera. It is the first offshore wind …
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According to the University of Cambridge, Bitcoin mining consumes more energy than all refrigerator consumption in the United States combined. Bitcoin mining would rank 27th in terms of energy use if it were its own nation. Bitcoin mining necessitates a large amount of computational power. To unlock Bitcoin transactions, it is needed the deployment of …
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Facebook, which renamed itself Meta in October 2021, has chosen Kuna, Idaho, as the location for its newest data center. The building, dubbed The Meta Kuna Data Center, will be powered entirely by renewable energy generated by new resources connected to Idaho Power’s grid, environmentalleader.com writes. Idaho Power launched its Clean Energy Your Way initiative …
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Making hydrogen economical, according to Albert Tarancon of the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, would be “the tipping point for a widespread deployment of the hydrogen economy,” supported by the “great” potential of 3D printing useful materials inside the hydrogen energy industry. In a deeper look into this burgeoning energy sector, Tarancon offered his insights …
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Amazon’s new 10-megawatt solar plant is already operational in South Africa’s Northern Cape Province, the country’s biggest province. The project is planned to create up to 28,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of renewable energy each year, which is enough to power around 8,000 ordinary South African households for an entire year, Amazon announced. The solar facility in …
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Next-generation clean energy technologies are decreasing total global energy demand and assisting in achieving climate neutrality on the energy supply side. By all accounts, 2022 will be the year when the energy mix becomes cleaner, more secure, and more competitive, according to Carolyn Fortuna for cleantechnica.com. To meet optimistic projections, energy investments this year will …
Amid an increasing number of corporate net-zero claims and mounting evidence of the destructive effects of climate change, there has been a renewed emphasis on voluntary carbon credit initiatives that promise to decrease, prevent, or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, spglobal.com writes. Nowhere has this focus been more visible than in the discussion of renewable energy …
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Google’s AI system has recently “learned” how to manage a magnetic field in a fusion reactor – and it might open the path to endless sustainable energy generation, Yahoo Finance writes. The accomplishment, in which a DeepMind-designed system was able to manage the magnetic field in a Swiss tokamak reactor, might pave the way for …
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The state’s electrical infrastructure remains vulnerable to extreme cold a year after a major winter storm triggered widespread outages in Texas. Recent research, however, shows that switching to 100 percent renewable energy might help avert future disruptions in Texas and elsewhere. Stanford researchers analyzed grid stability in 2050 in a scenario in which the United …
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Korkia, a Finnish investment business, has established a private equity fund to invest in renewable energy projects predominantly in Europe, with a transaction volume of more than 4GW. Focusing on project development, according to Korkia, would offer the fund a potential yearly revenue of more than 10%. Korkia’s investment strategy focuses on supporting renewable energy …
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