Research paper says the cost of renewables is now on par with natural gas Pamela Fieber · CBC News · Posted: Nov 18, 2020 4:41 PM MT | Last Updated: November 18 New research out of the University of Calgary indicates that Alberta is the prime place for renewable energy, given the province's substantial resources. [...]
The Atlantic Loop Erik Richer La Flèche Posted on November 18, 2020 Atlantic Canada’s electricity is generated primarily from fossil fuels (coal, diesel, fuel oil and natural gas) and one nuclear power plant, Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station, with a net capacity of 660 MW. But Atlantic Canada’s renewable energy potential is considerable. In its [...]
FERC expects net additions for renewables to be nearly 50 times as great as net additions for fossil fuels plus nuclear in the next three years - see Energy Infrastructure Update for April 2020. “In total, the mix of all renewables will add more than 53 gigawatts (GW) of net new generating capacity to the [...]
Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Vole au vent has installed the second and final turbine at the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) pilot project in the U.S. Construction has been coordinated from Halifax due to US shipping regulations. The two Siemens Gamesa SWT-6.0-154 units, which are the first wind turbines installed in U.S. federal waters, will [...]
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have reached a three-million-year high, at 417.1 parts per million (ppm), despite the 17% drop in daily emissions brought about by the coronavirus lockdown, according to annual measurements at the atmospheric research lab at Mauna Loa, Hawaii. The new figures, published last Thursday by the U.S. National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration [...]
An Ontario court has struck down a move by the provincial government to kill the partly-built 29-turbine Nation Rise Wind Farm southeast of Ottawa being developed by EDP Renewables. The decision quashes Environment Minister Jeff Yurek’s decision last year to block the project over his concerns about endangered bats. The ruling is a rebuke [...]
Stimulus programs backing clean energy as a path out of recession would create nearly three times as many jobs for every dollar spent on fossil fuel developments, according to a financial consultancy analysis. The assessment by professional services firm Ernst & Young (EY) says a government focus on renewable energy and climate-friendly projects to drive [...]
An energy start-up is launching Britain’s first “consumer-owned wind farm”, offering people the chance to buy a share of a turbine in return for receiving the electricity it produces. Ripple Energy is aiming to sign up about 2,000 households in the UK to crowdfund the £4.3 million construction of the pilot, one-turbine project at Graig [...]
Solar PV and onshore wind are now the cheapest sources of new-build generation for at least two-thirds of the global population. Those two-thirds live in locations that comprise 71% of gross domestic product and 85% of energy generation. Battery storage is now the cheapest new-build technology for peaking purposes (up to two-hours of discharge duration) [...]
Swedish energy company Vattenfall AB is going ahead with building one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms and the biggest without government subsidies. The 1,500-megawatt Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands combines two projects that it won tenders for in 2018 and 2019. The utility’s decision to proceed is [...]