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EDF Is Calling For More Demand Response In California And Why You Should ...
Further, demand response can help California meet its goal of 33% renewable energy by 2030 by encouraging people to use non-essential devices, like swimming pool pumps and defrosters, when renewable energy is available and abundant. It is a clean, ...
GE expresses RET concern; Origin wary of RET closure
Financial services firm GE Australia has reportedly said scrapping the Renewable Energy Target would go against the Coalition Government's claim that Australia is open for business. The Australian Financial Review said the company had made the claim as ...
PUCO begins work on rules that will tell electric customers how much they're ...
Just how much the state's renewable energy requirements, which were signed into law in 2008, cost customers has been at the forefront of the political battle. Both sides of the debate have released studies saying the freeze will raise or lessen costs for ...
Huge PPL power transmission proposal faces opposition
PITTSBURGH (AP) — One of the biggest new electric transmission line proposals in decades is turning into a debate over fracking, renewable energy and the future of an aging energy grid. The $4 billion to $6 billion PPL Corp. project is designed to take ...
New Battery Tech Promises Huge Advance in Renewable Energy Storage
A new battery electrode that combines liquid-state sodium and cesium to significantly improve the safety, efficiency and life span of sodium-beta batteries has been developed by researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, ...
Negotiate with Greens on RET: Palmer
Clive Palmer has reiterated his support for the Renewable Energy Target, saying the government will need to negotiate with the Greens if it wants to change the mandated 41,000 gigawatt hours target by 2020, Fairfax reports. “We won't be voting for it, so I ...
Huge world-first man-made tidal lagoon could power over 155000 homes
If plans for a tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay go ahead, that claim will be reinforced. Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay would be world's first man-made energy-generating lagoon and could power over 155,000 homes. Renewable energy is, of course, an area of huge ...
PPL transmission line proposal questioned by environmental groups
PITTSBURGH — One of the biggest new electric transmission line proposals in decades is turning into a debate over fracking, renewable energy and the future of an aging energy grid. The $4 billion to $6 billion PPL Corp. project is designed to take electricity ...
GE expresses RET concern; Origin urges reduced target
Financial services firm GE Australia has reportedly said scrapping the Renewable Energy Target would go against the Coalition Government's claim that Australia is open for business. The Australian Financial Review said the company had made the claim as ...
Biggest solar project falls as Australia reviews policy
The project in Mildura was scrapped because of the review into the target along with lower wholesale power prices according to a statement from Solar Systems, a unit of New South Wales-based Silex, and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. Funding ...
Energy Storage North America Names Top Nine Energy Storage Project Finalists
Berkeley, CA - August 18, 2014 (Investorideas.com renewable energy stocks newswire) Energy Storage North America (ESNA), the most influential gathering of policy, technology and market leaders in energy storage, today announced finalists for its 2014 ...

Government News
Intense speculation over the Abbott government's real intentions surrounding the potential scrapping of the Renewable Energy Target (RET) have sent shock waves through the local government sector. Councils now fear they will struggle badly to manage ...
Reality Check: Germany Does Not Get Half of its Energy from Solar Panels
The rise of the Internet means that simple factual issues can be checked quicker than would have been believed possible a generation ago. The rise of social media means that facts are not checked, they are retweeted. Such is the case with renewable energy ...