Why Louisiana’s Electric Grid Failed in Hurricane Ida

Just weeks before Hurricane Ida knocked out power to much of Louisiana, leaving its residents exposed to extreme heat and humidity, the chief executive of Entergy, the state’s biggest utility company, told Wall Street that it had been upgrading…

Biden Urges Climate Action: ‘We Don’t Have Much More Than 10 Years’

ARVADA, Colo. — President Biden warned on Tuesday that the United States had only a decade left to confront a global climate crisis, using his second day touring a wildfire-ravaged West to try to rally the public, and congressional Democrats,…

United Nations Warns of ‘Catastrophic Pathway’ With Current Climate Pledges

But still missing are new pledges from 70 countries, including China, which currently produces the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as Saudi Arabia and India, both large economies with a significant climate footprint. Brazil,…

Joe Manchin Will Craft U.S. Climate Plan

WASHINGTON — Joe Manchin, the powerful West Virginia Democrat who chairs the Senate energy panel and earned half a million dollars last year from coal production, is preparing to remake President Biden’s climate legislation in a way that…

SunBrush mobil establishes joint service and sales office in Western Cape with AVANT South Africa

With immediate effect, solar park operators and operation and maintenance companies from South Africa and Namibia can purchase SunBrush® mobil solar PV cleaning equipment made in Lachen, Germany, with the matching loader vehicles from Finnish…

European Commission ready to speed up, scale-up and invest in solar PV

 The 38th European PV Solar Energy Conference (EU PVSEC 2021), which took place online from the 6th to the 10th of September, discussed future challenges for the sector.Session recordings of the EU PVSEC 2021 are available for three months.Ulrike…

Desert Technologies appoints Ahmad Saleh Alhusseini as Chief Strategy Officer

Desert Technologies (DT), a leading provider of renewable solar energy solutions, announces the Board of Directors’ decision approving the appointment of Mr. Ahmad Saleh Alhusseini as Group Chief Strategy Officer effective from August 29th,…

AEROCOMPACT launches new patented PV mounting system for sandwich panel roofs

The Austrian expert in PV mounting solutions AEROCOMPACT has developed a new support system for solar power systems on sandwich panels. The patented racking system is the first solution on the market that neither stresses nor damages the…

Blue Banyan reports increased demand for its SolarSuccess NetSuite application

Blu Banyan announces that data from the past three years shows that while the solar market is growing fast, SolarSuccess customers are growing faster.SolarSuccess dashboard.Blu Banyan co-founder and CEO Jan Rippingale said: “Companies…

Pearce Services’ Division Acquires Mountain Renewables

Pearce Renewables, a division of Pearce Services, has acquired Mountain Renewables LLC, a national provider of technical field services for wind energy and utility-scale solar. Mountain…