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.
Home wind power: Yes, in my backyard!
So maybe you’re thinking you want to generate your own electricity, and home wind power has crossed your mind. After all, who really enjoys paying a utility bill? Small wind energy is renewable, non-polluting, and, in the right circumstances, can save you Read More...
Renewables are outcompeting fossil fuels without help from subsidies
The day subsidy-free renewable energy becomes cheaper than fossil fuels will mark the beginning of the end for dirty energy. What we may not realize is that day is closer than we think. According to new research, onshore wind and solar will both be viable without subsidies by 2025 in the UK. Read More...
Burlington and San Francisco are trailblazing the path to 100 percent renewable
If we are to effectively combat climate change, cities have to make bold moves that will shape the future. Take Burlington, Vermont and San Francisco, California for example. Burlington began its transition to a net-zero economy back in 1978 when it replaced its coal plant with a power station Read More...
The world added nearly 30 percent more solar energy capacity in 2017
The global solar market grew 29.3 percent last year, with nations installing 98.9 gigawatts of new capacity, according to data from the industry group SolarPower Europe. While more capacity was installed in 2017, the global growth rate slowed last year, down from 49 percent in Read More...
The biggest solar parks in the world are now being built in India
Weeds poke listlessly from the flat, rocky earth as the temperature climbs to the mid-90s. On a cloudless March afternoon, the blue horizon stretches out uninterrupted, as if even birds are too weary to fly. On this unforgiving patch of southern India, millions of silver-gray panels glimmer in the Read More...
This father-daughter team says it has a cheaper, safer way to bury nuclear waste
Startup Deep Isolation wants to use fracking tech to drill horizontal disposal tunnels a mile below the Earth’s Read More...
Rooftop solar cost competitive with the grid in much of the U.S.
Rooftop solar panels on have always been the province of well-to-do, eco-friendly folks willing to shell out extra bucks to be green, but that is all starting to change. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the cost of putting solar panels on a typical American house has Read More...
China’s latest energy megaproject shows that coal really is on the way out
The Chinese province of Anhui built a massive floating solar farm on top of an abandoned coal mine. An even larger floating solar plant will come online by May Read More...
German company powers Puerto Rico with Internet-connected batteries
A German startup is offering its energy storage systems without charge to about a dozen blacked-out schools, churches, health-care facilities, and community centers in Puerto Rico that is still dealing with large areas without power. The equipment links solar- and battery-powered buildings to Read More...
UK sets new wind power record as turbines deliver 37 percent of electricity
Wind power in the UK set a new record by generating 14 gigawatts for the first time – nearly 37 per cent of the the country’s electricity. The National Grid control room confirmed that 13.9 gigawatts was the highest ever metered wind Read More...