#ICYMI Cleantech News 5/13/16
Welcome again to our series of regular In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) cleantech news blog posts. These blog posts feature some of the most interesting, compelling and/or impactful cleantech news of the week.
This week’s highlights include Germany’s total renewable output reaching 90 percent of the country’s total electricity demand, predictions that China will be raising its energy storage capacity ten-fold by 2020 in order to cut energy waste, and a Wall Street Journal feature on how large U.S. utilities are using government incentives to boost investments in wind and solar power.
Here are some of the top stories in cleantech this week:
- ENERGY STORAGE: China is expected to raise its energy storage capacity by ten-fold to 14.5 gigawatts by 2020, as they look to cut energy waste from renewable energy projects caused by bottlenecks in the grid, reported Reuters.
- UTILITIES: Large U.S. utilities such as Duke Energy and Southern Co. are using government incentives to increase investments in wind and solar power, reported Cassandra Sweet of The Wall Street Journal.
- GERMANY: For a short period of time this week, the total output of German renewables reached 90 percent of the country’s total electricity demand, as reported by Jeremy Deaton of Think Progress.
- BIG BUSINESS: Pilita Clark of The Financial Times highlighted how some of the largest U.S. companies such as Ford, Google, Amazon and Walmart are using renewable energy to fuel their businesses.
- DESALINIZATION: Richard Martin, editor at MIT Tech review, wrote a candid piece on the real “price” of desalinization and the efforts by drought-ridden regions to commit to renewable energy.
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