Anheuser-Busch Embraces Solar to Power Past Its 100% Renewables Target

Jul 5, 2019 | News

Beer giant Anheuser-Busch announced Tuesday the signing of a 15-year virtual power-purchase agreement with Recurrent Energy for a 222-megawatt (AC) project in West Texas. In 2017, Anheuser-Busch committed to purchasing 100 percent renewable electricity by 2025. It’s...

Building Out the US Offshore Wind Supply Chain—a $68 Billion Opportunity

Jul 5, 2019 | News Archive

Click Here for Source Over the past two years, states along the U.S. East Coast have announced increasingly ambitious targets to build offshore wind projects. In January of this year, to cite the most consequential recent example, New York nearly quadrupled its...

The M&A Way into Distributed Energy

Jul 5, 2019 | News Archive

Click Here for Source But that wait-and-see period for large power companies has ended—perhaps sooner than anyone expected. Rapid technological advances in battery storage, smart-home technology, and energy management devices are making DER much more attractive in...

Why the Guardian is putting global CO2 levels in the weather forecast

Jul 5, 2019 | News Archive

Click Here for Source The Mauna Loa weather observatory in Hawaii. The Guardian will publish the Mauna Loa carbon count every day. Photograph: Courtesy of NOAA The simplest measure of how the mass burning of fossil fuels is disrupting the stable climate in which human...

New WIRES Group Report: $230 – $690 Billion Investment In US Transmission System Needed By 2050 To Support A More Electrified…

Jul 5, 2019 | News Archive

Click Here for Source A newly released report by WIRES finds that the drive towards electrification of transportation and heating in the U.S. will require major new electric transmission infrastructure. The report, titled The Coming Electrification of the North...