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Wind and solar make more electricity than nuclear for first time in UK
Windfarms and solar panels produced more electricity than the UK’s eight nuclear power stations for the first time at the end of last year, official figures show. Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions also continued to fall, dropping 3% in 2017, as coal use fell and the use of renewables climbed. Energy experienced the biggest drop in emissions of any UK sector, of 8%, while pollution from transport and businesses stayed flat.
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The Small Scottish Isle Leading the World in Electricity
Some 1.3 billion people lack regular access to electricity. With its reliable independent grid powered by wind, water and solar, a remote Scottish island could point to a solution.
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California is taking a cooling off period after generating too much energy from the sun
California’s solar sector has been on fire. But after a building sprint that saw its share of solar rise from 0.5% of generation in 2010 to 10% last year, the state may be taking a break following two new production records this month. Solar served up an unprecedented 50% of the state’s demand on a sunny day around 1pm PT on March 5. The next day, utility operators reported a second record for total generation from solar which produced 10,411 megawatts, beating out last year’s record by 5%.
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MIT Engineers Have Built a Device That Pulls Electricity Out of Thin Air
Temperature changes large and small are happening around us all the time, and scientists have come up with a machine that can convert those fluctuations into electricity, potentially powering sensors and communication devices almost out of thin air.
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After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat. Utilities are freaking out.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is the latest to be caught short.
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Denton aims to become second 'all renewable' city in Texas by 2020
Denton is set to become the second city in Texas to use 100 percent renewable energy. Denton’s City Council voted 6-1 on Feb. 6 to approve an amendment to the Renewable Denton Plan which institutes the new goal with a target year of 2020. The plan’s original goal was to use 70 percent renewable energy by then. The city’s utility company, Denton Municipal Electric, has determined that solar power is the city's best option for renewable energy, followed by coastal wind and then other wind energy. The city currently purchases 44 percent renewable energy.
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Puerto Ricans take matters into their own hands to restore power
Tired of months of ineffectiveness, volunteers and workers are working to fix downed power lines in attempts to restore electricity for the 400,000 people still in the dark still since hurricane Maria. So far, power has been restored to 2,000 homes.
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Bitcoin, the virtual currency, has become a massive energy hog
Bitcoin has become the world’s premier virtual currency, and although it exists only online, it runs up enormous energy costs in the real world. Verifying bitcoin transactions is so energy intensive the currency tops 159 individual countries in energy consumption, according to data consultant Alex de Vries. Every transaction related to bitcoin is verified by a key group of users called miners, who collect all those records into groups known as blocks and compete to get their block added to the chain of record. Every 10 minutes or so, one block is randomly selected, winning that miner a prize of new bitcoins.
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Tesla’s giant battery in Australia made around $1 million in just a few days
Tesla’s 100MW/ 129MWh Powerpack project in South Australia, the largest in the world for now, has been demonstrating its capacity over the last few weeks since going into operation last month. But now the system is showing its potential to be highly profitable by making an estimated $1 million AUD (~$800,000 USD) in just a few days. The Powerpack system built by Tesla and operated by Neoen as part of their nearby wind farm is used on two different levels.
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President Trump Slaps Tariffs on Solar Panels in Major Blow to Renewable Energy
It's a major blow to renewable energy
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Power prices go negative in Germany due to an excess of renewable energy sources
Germany has invested an estimated 200 billion Euros over the past two decades to promote the production of cleaner electricity, with over a third of the country's energy production coming from renewable sources in 2016. While this may sound like a good thing, it does introduce problems for the electricity market, issues that have to be resolved to make energy grids based on renewable energy sources more viable.
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Bitcoin could cost us our clean-energy future
The digital currency is slowing our effort to achieve a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.
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Bitcoin Mining in Electric Vehicles Raises Other Questions
Some creative Tesla owners came up with a way to make a few bucks from their parked EVs: Cryptocurrency mining. This raises questions that shouldn’t just be aimed at bitcoin mining, or even electric vehicles. For those unfamiliar, cryptocurrencies only work because there is a network of distributed computing that processes the transactions. To reward those offering the computing power, cryptocurrencies give fractions of new bitcoins to those who did...
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Breaking: Thunderstorms Observed Triggering Nuclear Reactions in The Sky
For the first time, scientists have witnessed lightning triggering nuclear reactions in the atmosphere, confirming a hypothesis dating back almost a century.
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Amazing wind tree sculpture.
One of the biggest criticisms against wind turbines is that they aren’t usually nice to look at, but that may be about to change thanks to the French company NewWind. Their new device, Tree Vent, is an array of vertical wind turbines that look a lot like a tree. The first Wind Tree prototypes were created in 2013 and installed in Paris in 2015 (2016)
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The Forgotten Religions That Worshipped Electricity
As electricity revolutionized the Western world, some began to admire it for more than just its scientific prospects. By Addison Nugent.
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'INFLECTION POINT': Renewables will be the 'cheapest form of new power generation' by 2020
Renewable energy sources, like solar and wind, are quickly becoming as cheap—even cheaper—than their carbon-intensive counterparts like coal. New research from Morgan Stanley estimates that renewables will be the cheapest source of power in the world in less than three years.
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America’s Hungriest Wind and Solar Power Users: Big Companies
Major U.S. corporations such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) and General Motors Co (GM.N) have become some of America’s biggest buyers of renewable energy, driving growth in an industry seen as key to helping the United States cut carbon emissions.
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New Zealand Quake Scientists make surprising find Underground
Researchers say the discovery could provide a significant new energy source
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California produced so much solar power, electricity prices just turned negative
"Yeah, they're out there havin' fun, In the warm California sun," sang The Rivieras in their 1964 hit. And it could not be more apt today as the sun in the state was so strong – and the number of solar farms so large – that electricity prices in the state have begun turning negative on the main power exchange, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has revealed.
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