Posts from March 7, 2024

• Water is life. It’s also energy — whether you like dams or hate them
  The rain and snow that have drenched California and much of the American West over the last few months — at least relative to some of the hellishly dry years we’ve gotten recently — are a blessing not just for water supplies, but for energy.
• Norway Launches Its First Offshore Wind Auction
  Norway launched early on Monday local time its debut offshore wind auction, targeting up to 1.5 gigawatts (GW) of power capacity in the North Sea south of its coasts.
• Two-faced solar panels can generate more power at up to 70% less cost
  Researchers have built a new kind of two-faced (bifacial) panel. They used single-walled carbon nanotubes as both front and back electrodes.
• The solar eclipse is a critical test for the US power grid
  US solar power has more than doubled since the last eclipse. What will happen during this one?
• US climate law has boosted solar, batteries; hydrogen, other initiatives lag
  The U.S. has doubled the pace of cutting carbon emissions since President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed in 2022, analysts and scientists said, with more than 80 solar, wind and energy storage projects taking advantage of the law's mix of direct payments and tax credits.

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