Headline News:
- A new floating solar farm went live in the Chinese city of Huainan above a retired coal mine, China Daily reported. The mine had been flooded with groundwater after it went out of service. The new solar farm generates 40 MW, which can power 15,000 homes for a year. The second biggest active floating farm has a capacity of 6.3 MW. [EcoWatch]
World’s biggest floating solar farm (Sungrow Power Supply)
- Monday’s partial eclipse statewide took a sharp, sudden bite out of solar power production in California. Shortly after 9 AM, the state’s fast-multiplying solar farms were plunged into semi-darkness, just when they would normally be revving up. And the electricity grid survived just fine. The slack was filled by hydro-power and natural gas. [SFGate]
- Advanced Rail Energy Storage, based in California, has a solution to the problem of energy storage. It is to run some old trains up and down a hill. When a wind or solar farm is producing excess energy, repurposed electric locomotives haul enormously heavy railroad cars to the top of a hill. When power is needed, they generate it coming down. [Seeker]
- There are only about a dozen countries on Earth that don’t recognize the right to a healthy environment. The US is one. Now, a small town in rural western Pennsylvania is asserting the legal right to clean air and water. In doing so, it’s challenging the foundation of US environmental law. Grant Township is a destination for fracking waste. [CleanTechnica]
- The Trump administration has fired another shot at the scientific community, this time dismantling a federal advisory committee on climate change. The advisory committee’s big work was coming up with the release of a congressionally mandated climate report. The advisory committee was to recommend actions based on it findings. [CNN]
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August 22 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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