Headline News:
- An electric plane project is in the works at NASA, and the new aircraft is called the X-57. It’s an initiative to demonstrate that electric-powered aviation can be clean, quiet, and quick. With 14 small engines means the X-57 will need less energy to cruise at a speed of 175 mph. [Fox News]
Artist’s concept of the X-57. (NASA Langley / Advanced Concepts Lab, AMA, Inc.)
- Throughout the second half of 2015, and first six months of 2016, renewables have weathered the global price slump for oil handily. This is turning out to be the year when cheap renewable energy sources are beginning to dominate the global energy markets. [Global Risk Insights]
- Recent trends demonstrate a rapid growth in corporations directly buying renewable energy from wind, solar and other renewable energy generators. Renewable energy capacity under corporate power purchase agreements doubled each year from 2012 to 2015. [Lexology]
- In a recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at MIT found that it currently makes economic sense to combine large-scale energy storage systems with renewable energy projects, such as wind and solar farms, in some locations. [The National Law Review]
- Entergy Nuclear got approval from state regulators to build another storage facility to hold the balance of its spent nuclear fuel that is currently in Vermont Yankee’s spent-fuel pool. The decision allows Entergy to create space for 22 dry casks to hold radioactive fuel. [Barre Montpelier Times Argus]
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from Green Energy Times http://www.greenenergytimes.net/2016/06/21/june-21-energy-news/
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