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Climate Change Threatens Canadian Wildlife and Winter Habitats

As climate change accelerates, its effects on wildlife across the globe are becoming increasingly evident. In Canada, one of the countries most affected by warming temperatures, the changing climate is threatening biodiversity, disrupting ecosystems, and impacting species that rely on harsh winters for survival. A recent report highlights how these changes are not only reshaping Canada’s landscapes but also undermining the delicate balance of life that many animals depend on to thrive.

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UN Warns of Deadly Heat as Hottest Decade Ends

In December 2024, the United Nations reported that the world has endured a "decade of deadly heat," with 2024 marking the tenth consecutive year of unprecedented temperatures. This period has been characterized by record-breaking heatwaves, severe droughts, and devastating wildfires, underscoring...


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Clean Energy Stakeholders Push to Preserve IRA Tax Credits

As the U.S. energy landscape shifts towards cleaner, renewable sources, stakeholders in the solar, storage, and broader clean energy sectors are intensifying their lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C., aiming to secure the future of critical tax incentives introduced under the Inflation Reduction...

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Oregon Approves Major Solar and Storage Initiative

Oregon has recently given the green light to one of the largest solar and energy storage projects in the United States, marking a monumental step toward its renewable energy future. The project, known as the Sunstone Project, will feature a massive 1.2 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity, along with...

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Fort Collins Municipality Case Study

A proposal for equipping broadband services to the Fort Collins, CO, municipality was approved by residents and a $120 million bond is now providing Fort Collins with resources to build and improve the municipality’s infrastructure so it can support broadband service for any qualifying...

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Estimating Transmission Costs for New Generation Technologies

Estimating Transmission Costs

Often when project developers talk about the cost of a new power plant, wind farm, or solar installation, they’re referring to the capital cost of building a facility. Certainly those development costs have dropped over time—especially for wind and solar.

But developers overlook the cost to move power—at their peril. You might think that transmission costs—at least the fraction of those that developers of new plants must bear—are a very small part of the total. This is true for some types of renewable generation. Rooftop solar, for example, does not usually require upgrades to electric transmission systems that are designed to transmit high voltage electricity over long distances. But what about for utility-scale renewable projects?

Here, it’s less clear, so we examined the issue closely as part of our Full Cost of Electricity (FCe-) study in the white paper “Estimation of Transmission Costs for New Generation”
[PDF]. In recent years...

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Alternative Vehicle Options: Upfitted Vans for Utilities

Utility workers and linemen work in one of the most mobile industries in the country. Think about it: utility workers are always moving from one project to the next as efficiently as possible. Since utility workers rely so heavily on their work vehicles, it is critical that they drive a vehicle...

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Solving Underground Cable Problems with Partial Discharge Testing

How to prevent failure with partial discharge testing BY HENNING OETJEN, Megger Partial discharge (PD) measurements are increasingly used as a reliable and non-destructive diagnostic method to detect weak spots in the insulation of underground cables. Routinely, partial discharge measurements are...

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