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Today, Chris Markwell is the director of asset management for NEXTracker — a leading solar tracking provider — where he works to make utility-scale solar arrays more productive every day.
His journey as an engineer, leader, and person of color in clean energy began years ago with a critical decision to serve.Markwell, like millions…
Parabolic trough collectors from a concentrated solar project (Courtesy: Abengoa)Follow @EngelsAngle
To lean on old sports cliché, it’s not about how you start, it’s how you finish.
In the U.S., concentrated solar power’s start can be summarized as a…
The proposed standalone investment tax credit for energy storage was seen as a potential game-changer for the industry. But like the total $550 billion in clean energy incentives and investments in the bill, the energy storage ITC has an uncertain future. (Courtesy: Adam…
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Clean hydrogen production and use must increase by 50 fold, from 10 million tons per year to more than 500 million tons per year by 2050, if U.S. decarbonization goals are to be met.
That’s according to a report released February 14 by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). The report, a…
Image by Credit Commerce from PixabayVirtual Peaker said it received a $16.6 million investment to expand beyond its distributed energy resource systems (DERMS) platform. The funding was led by Louis Bacon’s Moore Strategic Ventures (MSV), with participation from…
A substitute for lithium? High-risk, high-reward clean energy bets receive $175 million from DOE
February 17, 2022
SPM, a private company, is developing a bulk thick crystal of semi-insulating gallium nitride for use in a 100 kV photoconductive semiconductor switch. (Courtesy: SPM)Follow @EngelsAngle
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is providing $175 million to support the research…
How renewable energy operators can confront the SCADA and IT skills shortage
February 17, 2022
Renewable energy operators are considering their options to combat the SCADA skills shortage in the face of potential supply chain impacts.(Courtesy: NREL)Contributed by Woodrow Boles, Jr., Director of Renewables SCADA for EverLine
The changes in renewable energies over the last ten years are palatable. The explosion of technologies is primarily attributed to falling costs. The economies of…
Heliene’s heterojunction solar cell module manufacturing facility in Riviera Beach, Florida (Courtesy: Heliene)Import tariffs that were put in place during the Trump administration to target solar photovoltaic (PV) modules made in Canada should be removed, according…
Imperial Oil’s petrochemical complex in Sarnia, Ontario (Courtesy: Enel X)Follow @EngelsAngle
Construction is underway on a 20 MW/40 MWh behind-the-meter battery storage system at a petrochemical complex owned by Canadian oil giant Imperial.
Enel X, a unit of Enel Group…
President Joe Biden looks at a 2022 Corvette at the General Motors’ Factory ZERO Facility in Detroit with UAW President Ray Curry and CEO of GM Mary Barra, Wednesday, November 17, 2021. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)Follow @EngelsAngle
Three months after President Joe Biden signed it in a White House ceremony, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is getting to work on clean…