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World’s largest floating solar farm comes online with wind and storage

Electrek

Beijing-headquartered electric power company Huaneng Power International (HPI) has completed the world’s largest floating solar project in Dezhou, which is in Shandong, an eastern Chinese province on the Yellow Sea. The 320 megawatt (MW) project is the largest floating solar farm to come online to date.

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1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that’s curbed oil demand – IEA

Electrek

Without EVs, solar, wind, and nuclear, the global rise in emissions in the last five years would have been three times larger, new International Energy Agency (IEA) analysis shows.

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Statkraft to supply renewable power for Fortescue’s Holmaneset 300 MW green hydrogen & green ammonia project

Green Car Congress

Currently in the feasibility phase of the Holmaneset Project, FFI is conducting several environmental, viability and social studies and is developing a project concept in line with Norwegian regulations, FFI’s environmental and social policies and values, and international good practice.

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US to use AI to track the impact of offshore wind on endangered whales

Baua Electric

Hywind floating offshore wind turbine by U.S. Two US environmental agencies say they will start using AI to better monitor the impact of offshore wind farms on marine animals, particularly endangered North American right whales, of which there are only about 360 left in the world. Department of Energy is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

Cars That Think

Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Some of the wind farms instead sit in clusters more than 100 kilometers out at sea.

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The US’s first large-scale offshore wind farm just missed its first power delivery deadline

Baua Electric

Vineyard Wind 1 was supposed to deliver its first power to the Massachusetts grid by December 31 – but it didn’t. Vineyard Wind 1 is a 50/50 joint venture between Avangrid and green investors Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. And it reiterated that deadline in a public newsletter on December 27.

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Renewables to overtake coal as largest global electricity source in 2025

Teslarati

The International Energy Agency (IEA) released its Renewables 2023 report earlier this month, marking the first of the organization’s comprehensive climate analyses released since the 2030 goal was set at the COP28 conference. “The In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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