Headline News:
- Danish wind energy company Vestas announced or confirmed four separate North American wind turbine orders totaling 598 MW. Two of the orders were for the 2-MW wind turbines and two for its 3.45-MW turbines optimised to 3.6 MW. The four orders highlight Vestas’ continued dominance in North America across its supply line. [CleanTechnica]
Vestas wind turbine
- A report from ACS Central Science describes a new material that can remove heavy metals and provide clean drinking water in seconds. It is a metal-polymer sponge-like material that can sweep up lead and mercury pollutants from any source of water with extreme efficiency, and can even be cleaned and reused over and over again. [CleanTechnica]
- EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that he is scrapping former President Barack Obama’s fuel-efficiency and greenhouse gas rules for cars and light trucks. Pruitt said rules that set a 54-mpg standard by 2025, up from the current 38.3 mpg, were “not appropriate” in light of recent automobile sales data and should be revised. [Washington Examiner]
- US-based NextEra Energy has signed one of the largest solar panel supply deals in history with China-based JinkoSolar, for 2,750 MW. In a separate move, JinkoSolar said it will open its first US PV manufacturing facility in Jacksonville, Florida. The new manufacturing facility will have the capacity to build 400 MW of solar modules annually. [CleanTechnica]
- In the next five years, the world will incorporate 70,000 solar panels every hour, according to the World Economic Forum. The WEF clarified the figure by saying that number of solar panels cover a thousand football fields every day, for five years. Nearly half of all those solar panels are being installed in one country, China. [Devdiscourse]
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April 3 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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