picture alliance via Getty reader comments 213 with 74 posters participating Share this story The United States gets about 40 percent of its electricity from carbon-free sources, including renewables and nuclear, and researchers have a pretty good idea of how to cost-effectively get to about 90 percent. But that last 10 percent? It gets expensive, ..
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reader comments 65 with 38 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, the Biden administration announced the latest in its renewable energy efforts, this time focused on a technology that hasn’t really arrived yet: floating offshore wind turbines. Compared to turbines directly anchored on the seafloor, floating versions are estimated to cost about 50 percent ..
Dyllan Furness reader comments 89 with 60 posters participating Share this story As solar and wind energy ramps up in the United States, the industries have gotten better at installing and operating their facilities. This experience can be seen in how the facilities are financed. According to new research, people working in the fields—and adjacent ..
Enlarge / An offshore wind farm under construction. reader comments 82 with 46 posters participating Share this story Shortly after taking office, President Joe Biden announced a major effort to jump-start the offshore wind industry in the US, with the stated goal of going from roughly zero to 30 GW of capacity before the decade ..
Enlarge / New Jersey hopes to be the home of scenes like this, where French workers are building the foundations for offshore wind turbines. reader comments 104 with 74 posters participating, including story author Share this story By the end of the decade, New Jersey’s beaches are set to have a view of something other ..
Enlarge / Sights like these may be more common in the US before long. reader comments 70 with 36 posters participating Share this story On Monday, the Biden administration announced a major effort to kickstart the offshore wind industry in the US. While offshore installations have been booming in Europe, the US is still limited ..
Enlarge / Wind turbines can apparently operate in Antarctica, so it’s not clear what Texas’ problem is. reader comments 505 with 242 posters participating, including story author Share this story Monday morning, as a jet stream brought frigid air south to the central United States, Texas residents found themselves facing rolling blackouts as the statewide ..
Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 150 with 113 posters participating Share this story Something as simple as black paint could be the key to reducing the number of birds that are killed each year by wind turbines. According to a study conducted at a wind farm on the Norwegian archipelago of Smøla, changing ..
reader comments 91 with 39 posters participating, including story author Share this story On Wednesday, the Global Wind Energy Council, an industry trade organization, released its review of the market in 2019. During the past year, wind power saw its second-largest amount of new installed capacity ever, with over 60GW going in. But the news ..
Enlarge / Components of an offshore windfarm await transport in Billingham, England. Ian Forsyth/Getty Images reader comments 108 with 61 posters participating Share this story The third quarter of 2019 saw the UK’s renewable generation pass that of fossil fuels for the first time, according to an analysis by the climate and energy policy group ..