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While the United States races to switch to clean, reliable solar and storage, all of this work could come to a screeching halt if we don’t address the elephant in the room: our electric grid is too small. Over the next 15 years, the…

The green hydrogen market has been taking off like a rocket, thanks mainly to the availability of low-cost wind and solar power for water electrolysis. Researchers are not resting on their laurels, though. The race is on to mimic nature’s…

Guzman Energy is not exactly a household word, but it should be. The Denver-based company sailed across the CleanTechnica radar three years ago with an innovative coal-for-solar financing plan aimed at rural electric cooperatives. In the…

For those doubting that the global economy can decarbonize fast enough to avert catastrophic warming, take a look over at the United States. The nation’s massive offshore wind resources are finally in the pipeline, and its land-based…

Agriculture Published on July 2nd, 2020 | by Tina Casey July 2nd, 2020 by Tina Casey It started as a trickle and now the floodgates are open. Solar arrays that once sat on barren ground are now festooned with plants that attract…

Clean Power Published on June 22nd, 2020 | by Tina Casey June 22nd, 2020 by Tina Casey A vast middle ground of opportunity for solar power development is ripe for the picking if only somebody could see where it is. Well, the US…