Emma Louise Penrod
Journalist at Freelance
Writer at Utility Dive
Independent journalist covering sustainability and equity in agriculture, energy & environmental health. Writing @UtilityDive @FeedStrategy, often elsewhere.
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5 days ago |
utilitydive.com | Emma Louise Penrod
Flow batteries are not, strictly speaking, a new technology. Yet even with improvements to decrease the cost, the flow batteries have never really caught on — until, perhaps, recently. Energy storage developer XL Batteries said in May that it had penned a contract to pilot a 333-kW organic flow battery at a data center owned by Wyoming-based Prometheus Hyperscale. And other energy storage companies, focused on other types of batteries, have made similar announcements in recent months.
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1 week ago |
sltrib.com | Emma Louise Penrod
Note to readers * The following story is Part 2 of two stories reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune and support from the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Read Part 1 here. As Utah continued its trend of violating federal air pollution limits, state air quality officials asked the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for help in 2017.
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2 weeks ago |
utilitydive.com | Emma Louise Penrod
The U.S. doubled its solar cell manufacturing capacity and added 8.6 GW of solar module manufacturing capacity in the first quarter of 2025, marking the third-largest quarter for new solar manufacturing capacity on record, according to a report by Wood Mackenzie for the Solar Energy Industries Association.
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2 weeks ago |
sltrib.com | Emma Louise Penrod
Note to readers * The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune and support from the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. The plumes of mist that drifted toward the Utah Test and Training Range in November 2021 were thick enough that they had begun to interfere with military exercises.
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2 weeks ago |
utilitydive.com | Emma Louise Penrod
Sunnova, the second-largest installer of third-party owned residential solar installations by market share, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday. Although the company's customer base and revenues continued to grow, rising interest rates, inflation, tariffs and other factors had eroded the company's profit margins, rendering it unable to pay its debts, president and CEO Paul Mathews said in the bankruptcy filings.
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