Bernard Looney will lead the oil supermajor into an era of unprecedented change for the energy industry, and he knows it. Bob Dudley will retire next year after a 40-year career at BP, and on Friday the oil and gas supermajor named his successor as CEO. Bernard Looney, currently head of BP’s upstream business, will […]
Trump Gets Manufacturing Win as Hanwha Q Cells Opens US Solar Factory
The country’s largest solar production facility officially opens Friday in Georgia, with the Trump administration expected to be in attendance. A representative of the Trump administration and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp will converge on Dalton, Georgia on Friday to celebrate a U.S. manufacturing win, as Hanwha Q Cells officially opens its solar module manufacturing facility […]
The Energy Transition in 4 Charts
A peek at Wood Mackenzie’s latest outlooks for solar, wind energy storage and carbon emissions. There is little debate that the energy transition is underway. However, the speed at which it is happening is very much in flux. Wood Mackenzie recently compiled some of its latest power and renewables forecasts into a presentation (available here) […]
California’s Community Choice Aggregators are Filling the Gaps in EV Charger Investment
CCAs haven’t invested as much as utilities in EV charging infrastructure. New state grants for Silicon Valley CCAs, munis will help close the gaps. California’s community-choice aggregators are increasingly taking utility customers and signing big renewable energy deals. But CCAs have not matched the billions of dollars of EV charging infrastructure investments being made by […]
US Solar Executives Break Down the Odds of an ITC Extension
The chances of an ITC extension have improved, though it still looks like an uphill battle, solar executives say. With the end of 2019 approaching, the impending phase-down of the federal Investment Tax Credit is top of mind for solar executives. Unlike the ambivalence within the wind industry about an extension of its Production Tax […]