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Nelnet | July 06, 2022

Nelnet (NYSE: NNI) announced a controlling investment in affiliates of GRNE Solutions, LLC (GRNE), known as GRNE Solar, a leading Midwest solar engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firm. In addition, Nelnet acquired certain solar assets from an affiliate of GRNE, some already generating power and others currently being constructed. The transaction closed July 1, 2022. GRNE designs and installs residential, commercial and utility-scale solar systems in Illinois, Indiana...

Petrolplaza | June 02, 2020

The Nationals Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, has released the Hydrogen Filling Simulation (H2FillS) software, a thermodynamic model designed to track and report the transient change in hydrogen temperature, pressure, and flow when filling a fuel cell vehicle. H2FillS stimulates gas flow from the hydrogen station to the car storage system. Using empirical fuelling data sets, the model has been validated over a range of fuelling conditio...

Microsoft | January 28, 2020

Microsoft’s pledge to go “carbon negative” by 2030 and take more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits raises the environmental stakes among the big tech companies. The software and services giant went further than its pledge by promising to remove by its 75th anniversary in 2050 the equivalent of all historical emissions since it was founded in 1975. With carbon emissions from computing rising rapidly as data centers handle a massive increase in traffic, the technology industry is coming und...

Energy news | March 23, 2020

As Xcel Energy prepares to join California’s imbalance market, other utilities in the state have looked east instead. Like the Continental Divide that splits Colorado waters into those flowing toward the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, the state’s electrical utilities have decided to go either east or west to take advantage of new or growing energy markets. But will this new seam in energy imbalance markets remain as utilities seek even greater benefits of a regional transmission organization? ...