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Solar Crowdfunding Non-Profit Wins DOE-SunShot “Solar in Your Community” Seed Funding

Solar Crowdfunding Non-Profit Wins DOE-SunShot “Solar in Your Community” Seed Funding

Innovative non-profit, community solar-focused RE-volv will use an initial $100,000 seed grant to further develop its plans to install solar PV systems for 10 local non-profits ...

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Solar-Storage Microgrids Coming to Remote WA Aboriginal Communities

Solar-Storage Microgrids Coming to Remote WA Aboriginal Communities

A solar-storage microgrid project undertaken by Energy Made Clean and Eastern Guruma Corp. will bring more reliable, efficient and affordable emissions-free power to two ...

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20-Plus Million Bangladeshis Now Have Access to Clean, Affordable Home Solar

20-Plus Million Bangladeshis Now Have Access to Clean, Affordable Home Solar

Driven primarily by rapid deployment of small-scale, off-grid home solar PV-energy storage systems, access to electricity in Bangladesh has risen from 47% to 80% since 2009.

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Episcopalian, Methodist Churches Plow $60MM into Developing World Off-Grid Solar

Episcopalian, Methodist Churches Plow $60MM into Developing World Off-Grid Solar

The Church Pension Fund and Wespath Benefits and Investments have invested $60 million ($30 million each) in Developing World Markets’ (DWM) landmark $60.8 million ORCA (Off-grid ...

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California Cleantech Startup Readies U.S. Launch of Blockchain-based EV/E-Mobility Digital Wallet

California Cleantech Startup Readies U.S. Launch of Blockchain-based EV/E-Mobility Digital Wallet

Oxygen Initiative and Germany's Innogy SE are adapting the Share&Charge e-mobility payments solution for use in the U.S., a bid that may spur uptake of EVs and hasten the ...

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World’s First Open Distributed Electricity Marketplace Set for June Launch

World’s First Open Distributed Electricity Marketplace Set for June Launch

Funded by the Australia Renewable Energy Agency, Greensync and project partners say they'll launch the first "deX" pilots in ACT and Victoria this June.

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Commissioning of Multi-Platform Solar-Storage Microgrid Under Way on Sardinia

Commissioning of Multi-Platform Solar-Storage Microgrid Under Way on Sardinia

Designed and built by Electro Power System and partner FZSoNick for Sardinia's water management agency, the hybidized microgrid integrates concentrating solar thermal and ...

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USAID Adds Momentum to Sub-Saharan Off-Grid Solar with $4 Million of New SOGE Grant Awards

USAID Adds Momentum to Sub-Saharan Off-Grid Solar with $4 Million of New SOGE Grant Awards

USAID will award Scaling Off-Grid Energy Development Grand Challenge grants of up to $500,000 each to Sub-Saharan start-ups that demonstrate commercially promising innovations and ...

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BTL, Wien Energie to Launch Pilot Blockchain Energy Trading Platform

BTL, Wien Energie to Launch Pilot Blockchain Energy Trading Platform

The project partners aim to demonstrate how BTL's Interbit can be used to streamline notoriously cumbersome energy/power industry transaction processing and book-keeping and ...

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Ugandan Off-Grid Solar, Low-Cost Internet Access Poised for a Growth Spurt

Ugandan Off-Grid Solar, Low-Cost Internet Access Poised for a Growth Spurt

Uganda's national off-grid solar and renewable power iniative brightens prospects for the economy, society and the environment. Entrepreneurial African solar start-ups are keen to ...

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Hybridized Maldives Microgrid Exceeds Expectations, Diesel Cuts 50 Percent Greater than Projected

Hybridized Maldives Microgrid Exceeds Expectations, Diesel Cuts 50 Percent Greater than Projected

Two hybridized solar PV-energy storage microgrids commissioned by Electro Power Systems (EPS) are up and running in the Maldives, part and parcel of efforts to reduce local ...

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New Solar Cells, Supercapacitors, Blockchain Apps Expected to Drive Renewable Power Costs Down Further

New Solar Cells, Supercapacitors, Blockchain Apps Expected to Drive Renewable Power Costs Down Further

Renewable power generation is now cost competitive with fossil fuels, and industry participants foresee further gains ahead in light of ongoing technological innovation, efforts ...

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Energy Access Investment Forum – Lisbon – March 22-23

Energy Access Investment Forum – Lisbon – March 22-23

The Alliance for Rural Electrification, in partnership with Energias de Portugal (EDP) and the African-EU Renewable Energy Cooperation Program (RECP), has the pleasure to invite ...

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Off-Grid Solar-Storage Program Just Scratches the Surface of Navajo Nation Sustainable Energy Potential

Off-Grid Solar-Storage Program Just Scratches the Surface of Navajo Nation Sustainable Energy Potential

The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority has installed small-scale home solar PV-energy storage systems in 20,000 homes and counting. The sustainable energy drive just scratches the ...

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How Batteries Will Enable Simplified Energy Trading with Blockchain and Peer-to-Peer Platforms

How Batteries Will Enable Simplified Energy Trading with Blockchain and Peer-to-Peer Platforms

After it's generated at the source, electricity on the grid cannot be easily controlled or directed.  Electrons do not adhere to fancy blockchain-based market designs.  Instead, ...

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Denver Solar-Storage Microgrid to Deliver Multiple Service Streams, Benefits Today

Denver Solar-Storage Microgrid to Deliver Multiple Service Streams, Benefits Today

Project partners Panasonic, Xcel Energy and Younicos lay out the stream of benefits expected from Peña Station NEXT, a 382-acre, sustainabie transit-oriented “multi-stakeholder ...

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Nigeria Launches National Off-Grid Pay-Go Solar Homes Initiative

Nigeria Launches National Off-Grid Pay-Go Solar Homes Initiative

20,000 households are expected to benefit by having off-grid, mobile pay-go solar energy systems installed over the next 12 months in the initial phase of Nigeria's Solar Home ...

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EV-Multipurpose Charging Station Combines Blockchain, IoT Tech

EV-Multipurpose Charging Station Combines Blockchain, IoT Tech

Blockchainfirst's Ethan BIoT EV/Multipurpose Charging Station is the latest in a series of blockchain-enabled IoT devices the Singapore startup has introduced, and the first of a ...

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