Renewable Energy Data Articles & Analysis

The newly released 2013 Renewable Energy Data Book illustrates United States and global energy statistics, including renewable electricity generation, renewable energy development, clean energy investments, and technology-specific data and trends. The Data Book is produced and published annually by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on behalf of the Energy Department's Office of ...

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released the 2012 Renewable Energy Data Book on behalf of the Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The annual report is an important assessment of U.S. energy statistics for 2012, including renewable electricity, worldwide renewable energy development, clean energy investments, and data on specific ...

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

U.S. renewable electricity grew to 19.7 percent of total installed capacity and 17.7 percent of total electricity generation in 2017, compared to 18.3 percent of total installed capacity and 15.6 percent of total electricity generation in 2016 according to the 2017 Renewable Energy Data BookPDF, now in its 10th edition. Installed global renewable electricity capacity also continued to increase in ...

By Smart Grid Observer

The 2016 Renewable Energy Data Book shows that U.S. renewable electricity grew to 18.3 percent of total installed capacity and 15.6 percent of total electricity generation in 2016. Published annually by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Renewable Energy Data Book presents U.S. and ...

By Smart Grid Observer

The 2015 Renewable Energy Data Book shows that U.S. renewable electricity grew to 16.7 percent of total installed capacity and 13.8 percent of total electricity generation during the past year. Published annually by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on behalf of the Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the data book illustrates U.S. and global energy ...

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Renewable energy generation continued to grow in the U.S. even as demands for electricity decline, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) 2105 Renewable Energy Data Book. The Data Book issued this month is compiled by NREL for the U.S. Department of Energy. “Since it was first released in 2009, the Renewable Energy Data Book has provided useful insights for ...

By Electric Utility Consultants, Inc. (EUCI)

The share of variable renewable energy (VRE)-mainly solar and wind-generation on U.S. regional power systems more than doubled on average from 2012 to 2018, according to the newly released 2018 Renewable Energy Grid Integration Data Book.Published biennially by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Apple Inc. said it will pay for construction of an 18-megawatt photovoltaic solar plant in northern Nevada to provide power for a data center the technology giant plans east of Reno. The Fort Churchill Solar Array, to be built in Yerington, was included in a filing Monday by NV Energy Inc. with the Public Utilities Commission. Apple announced plans last year to build the data center. The solar ...

By The Associated Press

According to its provisional energy report, Spanish utility Iberdrola SA (BME:IBE) generated 83,294 GWh of electricity from its renewable energy projects worldwide in 2024, a 5% increase from the previous year. According to the data, renewable energy production fell 2.1% to 19,993 GWh in the fourth quarter. In comparison to the same period last year, the output varied across Iberdrola's markets ...

By IBERDROLA Engineering and Construction

Munters announced today that it received two significant orders to provide cooling solutions for two Facebook data centers in Europe. The total value of the combined orders is approximately MSEK 450 depending on the final selection of options and on-site services. Having previously supplied the first two phases of Facebook’s project in Clonee, Ireland and the first phase of their more ...

By Munters

The winners of the US Department of Energy's “Apps for Energy” Challenge were announced this week, and New York based VELObill by ZeroFootprint, Inc. won 3rd place as the leading app for utility bill visualization. As of today, it is also the lead contender for the popular vote category. There is still time to cast your Public Vote for VELObill through May 31. Software developers ...

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a report that aligns solar policy and market success with state demographics. By organizing the 48 contiguous states into four peer groups based on shared non-policy characteristics, the NREL research team was able to contextualize the impact of various solar policies on photovoltaic (PV) installations. "Although ...

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

The Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently examined the carbon abatement potential of city actions in six policy areas as part of the DOE's Cities Leading through Energy Analysis and Planning (Cities-LEAP) project. The analysis uses new data on energy use in more than 23,400 U.S. cities and estimates the aggregate impact of city actions related to: building energy ...

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

CIT Group Inc. recently (2/24) announced that its Power and Energy business served as lead arranger for a $140 million financing for esVolta, a leading developer of utility-scale energy storage systems for renewable energy projects. The portfolio consists of more than 136 megawatts of energy storage units supporting eight energy projects in California. esVolta has long-term revenue contracts for ...

By Smart Grid Observer

The percentage of renewable electricity purchased by U.S. companies in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector is growing and will likely increase significantly by the start of the next decade, according to a first-ever analysis by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The report, "Renewable Electricity Use by the U.S. Information and ...

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

The U.S. Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released the 2017 Annual Technology Baseline (ATB), updating a key source of reliable electricity generation technology cost and performance data used to support and inform electric sector analysis in the United States. Now in its third year, the ATB documents technology-specific information on a broad spectrum of ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Following significant research into other software options over the past 6 months, Lean-Green signed a strategic reseller agreement with eSight Energy. Lean-Green will bundle up the eSight® energy management and analysis suite with its range of onsite sub-metering and analysis services, enabling Lean-Green to provide a complete end-to-end energy monitoring solution. Lean-Green will manage ...

By eSight Energy Ltd

Note: The following is an excerpt from Navigant Research's recent report on global data centers. Reprinted with permission Data centers are critical to a functional global digital economy and society. Investment in cloud storage, colocation, and hyperscale data centers has resulted in the construction of a large volume of new data centers globally, thus increasing energy consumption.Meanwhile, ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Steen Schelle Jensen, Head of Product Management – Solutions, Kamstrup A/S, explains how Europe is making district heating smart. Please note that this article was originally published by Open Access Government, here District heating provides the necessary flexibility to integrate, utilise and store waste heat and fluctuating energy from renewables, ultimately increasing the efficiency ...

By Euroheat & Power

CNH Industrial is committed to building a sustainable future through the design and development of our products and the plants where we build them. We have set an emissions target to have a 90% share of renewable electricity at these sites by 2030. “We are proud to be using recycled energy,” declares Amit Kumar Tiwari, Electrical Lead at the CASE Construction Equipment manufacturing ...

By CNH Global N.V. (CNH Industrial)