Energy
Transitioning to a world powered by renewable energy is key to tackling climate change. Here you can find the latest good news related to our clean energy transition, covering wind, solar, green hydrogen, hydropower, and more.
Wind, solar deliver 98 percent of new US power capacity in January, February
Solar and wind power was responsible for a remarkable 98 percent of all new U.S. power generation capacity that came online in the first two months of 2018. According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) latest “Energy Infrastructure Update,” the overwhelming majority of new Read More...
The solar market could expand six-fold after this discovery
Although residential solar is booming in the US, there’s a massive market that remains untouched: low-to-moderate income (LMI) households. Solar projects have traditionally been installed on the rooftops of wealthier single-households while companies ignored LMI households. However, according to Read More...
Lockheed says 'flow' battery will boost use of renewable power
Lockheed Martin Corp hopes to launch a new “flow” battery made of inexpensive, nontoxic materials that can help utilities save money and use more renewable energy, company officials Read More...
Elon Musk shares stunning video of night sky above world’s largest battery
Tesla’s South Australia battery project is turning heads. CEO Elon Musk shared a time-lapse animation on Sunday of the Powerpack project under a starry night sky. The 100-megawatt installation in Hornsdale, providing enough power for 30,000 homes, has surprised commentators with its speedy Read More...
Nest is giving smart thermostats to low-income families to lower utility bills
The average American household spends 3.5 percent of their income on energy bills. But one in five families spend over 20 percent of their income on heating and cooling their homes. That’s why Nest is launching a new initiative to get its smart thermostats into the hands of lower income Read More...
The U.K. just went 55 hours without using coal for the first time in history
Coal, which fueled the world’s biggest economies for more than a century, is increasingly losing out to renewables. The latest example of how one of the dirtiest fossil fuels is being squeezed out of the market came this week in Britain, which went for a record 55 hours without any of its power Read More...
Glass generating electricity put into mass production
A form of glass which generates electricity has put into mass production in Sichuan's capital, Chengdu after 8 years of research and Read More...
Thin film converts heat from electronics into energy
Nearly 70 percent of the energy produced in the United States each year is wasted as heat. Much of that heat is less than 100 degrees Celsius and emanates from things like computers, cars or large industrial processes. Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a thin-film Read More...
World's most powerful wind turbine installed in full view of Trump golf course
The world's most powerful wind turbine was successfully installed Monday off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland. This is just the first of 11 turbines that will stand at Vattenfall's future European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), Scotland's largest offshore wind test and Read More...
This battery advance could make electric vehicles far cheaper
Sila Nanotechnologies has pulled off double-digit performance gains for lithium-ion batteries, promising to lower costs or add capabilities for cars and Read More...