Energy and Climate Change

The double charge makes Montana’s world-class wind resource less competitive in out-of-state electricity markets that want clean energy.

A bike path in the Netherlands has been generating solar power since 2014, but the first example of a solar roadway built for cars opened this week in France.

Nearly 3,000 Wattway panels running through a small village in north-west France are expected to produce an average of 767 kWh of electricity per day, peaking in summer months to as much as 1,500 kWh.

WKN Montana, a Billings-based company, will break ground in late spring on a 25-to-35-turbine Vivaldi Springtime Wind Project in the hills north of Reed Point. The project is expected to finish in early 2018.

Absaroka Energy President Carl Borgquist said his company’s efforts will now turn to engineering work to solidify a construction schedule and costs estimated last year at $986 million. The company is also seeking financing, with construction expected to begin no earlier than 2018, he said.

Santa may need water skis instead of a sleigh this year.

The meters will cut costs, make responses to outages faster, and allow customers to monitor their own power use.

The launch of a giant solar array called Boulder Solar I gave the city its final shove toward its decade-long goal of 100 percent clean energy generation.

Developing countries in particular are able to sell solar power for half the cost or generating electricity from coal.

Thousands of industrial farms across the country release contaminants into the nation’s water and airways, but in many states like North Carolina, the public has limited access to information about them.