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Wind power just set a new record for providing electricity in America
Wind briefly powered more than 50 percent of electric demand on Sunday, the 14-state Southwest Power Pool (SPP) said, for the first time on any North American power grid. SPP coordinates the flow of electricity on the high voltage power lines from Montana and North Dakota to New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana. Wind power in the SPP region has grown significantly to over 16,000 MW currently from less than 400 megawatts in the early 2000s and is expected to continue growing. One megawatt can power about 1,000 homes.
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Electronic energy meters’ false readings almost six times higher than actual energy consumption
Some electronic energy meters can give false readings that are up to 582% higher than actual energy consumption. This emerged from a study carried out by the University of Twente (UT), in collaboration with the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). Professor Frank Leferink of the UT estimates that potentially inaccurate meters have been installed in the meter cabinets of at least 750,000 Dutch households. The is published in the scientific journal IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Magazine.
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How a Pacific Island Changed From Diesel to 100% Solar Power
On a recent Wednesday evening on the island of Ta’u—one of the outer islands in American Samoa—most of the people in all three villages are at pese—or church choir—practice. The annual island-wide youth group showcases are coming up and each choir senses the pressure of having to perfect their routines. For the Faleasao village choir, there is added pressure from being the smallest village on the island. But this year, the underdog choir believe they have a special routine that will blow away the competition.
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Physicists Have Found a Metal That Conducts Electricity but Not Heat
Researchers have identified a metal that conducts electricity without conducting heat - an incredibly useful property that defies our current understanding of how conductors work.
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Russia Will Build Its First Offshore Wind Farm In The White Sea
Russia goes offshore. A cooperation deal signed by Karelian Governor Aleksandr Khudilainen and Vice President of Chinese energy company Sinomec Li Yan includes the investment of €130 million in an offshore wind park located off the coast of Karel
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India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant
The country is on schedule to be the world’s third biggest solar market next year.
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First power drawn from tidal turbines off the coast of Scotland
Earlier this week Atlantis Resources announced that it had placed a tidal stream turbine off the northern coastline of Scotland and generated power for the first time from the 1.5 MW installation. The company plans to install three more turbines next year and use that experience to build out the site to approximately 400MW capacity.
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Daylight saving a dim idea whose time should end | GJSentinel.com
Grand Junction - This “daylight saving” they talk about every winter and spring doesn’t save any daylight at all. It’s a shell game
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Renewable Energy Capacity Overtakes Coal
The International Energy Agency says that the world's capacity to generate electricity from renewable sources has now overtaken coal.
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Most Puerto Ricans face a second night without electricity
Most Puerto Ricans faced another night of darkness Thursday as crews slowly restored electricity a day after a fire at a power plant caused the aging utility grid to fail and blacked out the entire island of 3.5 million people.
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Losing Business to Solar, U.S. Utility Companies Fight to Kill Consumer Trend
In some of the sunniest areas of the U.S., solar power is becoming a victim of its own success. With so many people leaving the grid, power utilities are now wondering who's going to pay the bill. They're fighting back, trying to make going solar much less attractive.
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The Future Of Energy Is Blowing In The Wind
A look at America's first offshore wind farm
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Is Blue the New Green? Wave Power could Revolutionize the Renewable-Energy Game
There's enough wave energy in the oceans to power the world, and scientists are finally close to harnessing it.
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UK Approves World’s Largest Wind Farm
The U.K. government on Tuesday approved phase two of the world’s largest wind farm, adding 300 turbines to a project 55 miles off England’s shore, in the North Sea. The Hornsea Two project will provide 1.8 gigawatts of generating power, in addition to the first phase’s 1.2 gigawatts. In all, the 3 gigawatts provided by Hornsea is enough to power 2.5 million average (U.S.) households. At that size, the combined project is roughly equivalent to a nuclear power plant.
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Second Phase of World's Biggest Offshore Windfarm gets go-Ahead
Multibillion-pound Hornsea Project Two, 55 miles off Grimsby coast,U.K., would see 300 turbines span an area five times size of Hull
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Alaska-Built Powerhouses Boost Fickle Green Energy in Villages
A Southwest Alaska village that installed 10 wind turbines in 2008 joined a wave of rural communities turning to renewable power to reduce sky-high energy costs.
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A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature: Ball Lightning
Every so often, given the proper conditions, a small and roughly spherical piece of the atmosphere around us will briefly catch fire.…
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The Stunning Case of Leaping Electric Eels
New experiments vindicate a naturalist’s 200-year-old account of fishing for eels—with horses. By Ed Yong.
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Big Solar is Leaving Rooftop Systems in the Dust
Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy – a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.
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California utility to close Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors by 2025
The state’s last nuclear power plant has straddled geological and political fault lines.
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