Energy Synapse

PRNewswire | February 13, 2020

Dominion Energy and Facebook are continuing their joint effort to increase renewable energy generation by adding a new solar facility in Greensville County, Va., to the list of those that will be dedicated to Facebook. Sadler Solar, a 100 MW facility located in Greensville County, Va., was approved by the Virginia State Corporation Commission on Jan. 22, 2020 and is expected to become operational by the end of 2020. Dominion Energy will build, own and operate the solar facility. Facebook will pu...

GWEC | August 10, 2020

GWEC anticipates that by 2030 more than 205 GW of offshore wind power capacity will be added globally, including at least 6.2 GW of floating offshore wind turbines. The figure represents a growth of 15 GW over the estimates that GWEC Market Intelligence itself made before Covid-19, demonstrating the resilience of the sector to play an important role in driving the energy transition and the Ecological recovery. The World Report on offshore wind energy was released this week by GWEC and ranks this...

SOLAR+STORAGE

Longroad Energy | February 16, 2021

Longroad Energy Holdings (Longroad), a US-based renewable energy engineer, proprietor, and administrator, announced today the marking of the procurement of Sun Streams 2, 4, and 5, which absolute around 900 MWdc altogether solar limit in addition to the potential for 1-2 GWh of battery stockpiling. Longroad likewise shut the procurement of Sun Streams 2. The end of Sun Streams 4 and 5 is dependent upon administrative endorsements and standard shutting conditions. The activities we...

Google | February 28, 2020

Google has revealed that its data centers are twice as energy efficient as a typical enterprise data center thanks to more than a decade worth of work spent on improving their energy usage and cooling. In addition to being the world's largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy, the search giant has also taken action on climate change by minimizing the amount of energy it uses in the first place. In a blog post detailing Google's work on making its data centers more energy efficient, the hea...