Renewable Energy World

4 days ago | renewableenergyworld.com | Paul Gerke

We’re just a few days removed from the official start of summer, and it’s already shaping up to be a scorcher in many parts of the United States. While the eastern half of the country sweats out a stretch of dangerous heat and humidity, a major Texas utility is preparing for what’s to come.

5 days ago | renewableenergyworld.com | Paul Gerke

This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate in 15 minutes or less featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week’s episode features special guest Scott Waldman from E&E News, who wrote about how the Trump administration is “crippling” the government’s ability to research global warming. This week’s “Cleantechers of the Week” are the slain and wounded MN legislators, Rep. Melissa Hortman and Sen. John Hoffman.

1 week ago | renewableenergyworld.com | Paul Gerke

Hyperscaler Google has announced a collaboration with CTC Global Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of high-capacity advanced conductors, that aims to accelerate the deployment of next-generation transmission technology for the U.S. power grid. Together, Google and CTC Global will scale the use of the latter’s high-capacity, domestically manufactured advanced conductors to rapidly boost grid capacity and reliability.

1 week ago | renewableenergyworld.com | Sean Wolfe

It’s not just the big utilities that have the option to modernize their operations – one electric co-op in the Midwest is adopting new tech that will help it manage more than 1,400 smart home devices across its territoriesHoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative, a non-profit electric generation and transmission cooperative operating in Indiana, has selected OATI’s webSmartEnergy distributed energy resource management system (DERMS).

1 week ago | renewableenergyworld.com | Paul Gerke

There is no deus ex machina coming for clean energy, after all. The United States Senate Committee on Finance could have stood in the way of the House of Representatives’ steamrolling of cleantech incentives in its version of the hotly contested budget bill, but ultimately, lobbying from industry advocates and legislators on both sides of the aisle amounted to white noise and wishful thinking.