2017 marks the first offshore windfarm in the U.S. The wind farm, located off Block Island, isn’t providing all of the island’s power, but whereas before the island’s grid was isolated from the mainland, the windfarm allowed Block to be connected to the New England power grid for the first time, and therefore the island’s … Read more
China, the world’s biggest solar power market, added 21.4b kilowatt-hours in the three months before March 31, compared with a year earlier, according to the NEA. It’s total installed capacity is now 85gw. Their increase is despite an unused capacity (congested transmission infrastructure) worth 2.3b kilowatt-hours in the first quarter. Read more
To save around $8,000 per year, the Kentucky Coal Museum is installing rooftop solar panels. The museum is in Benham, a town of 500 people, down from 3,000 in it’s coal town heyday. The move is seen as part of a wider movement in Kentucky to move away from coal energy, which is considered to … Read more
Price hikes and fuel hording are symptoms of what is being rumored to be a China-caused fuel shortage. Signs have popped up around Pyongyang that restrictions on sales would be in place until further notice. North Korea gets most of its fuel from its neighbor, China, which has joined the U.S. in a much stronger … Read more