UN: Global progress on affordable and clean energy must be accelerated in order to close energy gap.
Governments, businesses and civil society organizations have made tremendous strides in bringing affordable and clean energy to more people in recent years, but this progress has been largely uneven and must be accelerated in order to leave no one behind, says a new collection of policy briefs co
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Scientists say Chile's Southern Patagonia Ice Field has 'split in two'.
Chile's 12,000-square kilometre Southern Patagonia Ice Field has split in two and is likely to continue to fracture amid climate change, according to a team of Chilean scientists who were in the region in March.
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Africa Oil & Power 2019: How energy will generate jobs, economic growth in Africa.
CAPE TOWN – The Department of Energy’s flagship Africa Oil & Power (AOP) conference returns to Cape Town on October 9 to 11, with 20+ petroleum and power ministers to speak on the theme #MakeEnergyWork.
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Κοινοπραξία υπό την EDF ανέλαβε μεγάλο υβριδικό 800 MW στο Μαρόκο.
Το Μαρόκο ανέθεσε συμβόλαιο σε διεθνή κοινοπραξία υπό τη γαλλική EDF για την κατασκευή υβριδικού σταθμού με χρήση συγκεντρωμένης ηλιοθερμίας και φωτοβολταϊκών, ισχύος 800 μεγαβάτ.
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UK seeks offshore integration solutions.
The Offshore Wind Industry Council has begun a programme to ensure the UK’s low-carbon energy system makes the best use of the growing proportion of power supplied by offshore wind and other renewables.
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The EU Parliament Elections & Why They Matter — EU Renewable Energy Politics,
Next week we have elections for the Parliament of the European Union. Many people think the EU is an autocratic busybody inferring in their lives and national autonomy. Many more people think the parliament does not matter and does not have any influence.
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How do we harness different renewable energy sources?
Experts agree that microgrids are the future of renewable energy, and technology companies are ramp
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Is climate change affecting our socio-economic classes differently?
Carbon tax has featured prominently during the EU election campaign. The key issue is whether poorer households will be expected to pay a CO2 tax, when they emit less than high earners.
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Για μια φορά στη ζωή μας ας ψηφίσουμε για τα παιδιά μας!
Σήμερα πάλι, όπως πολλές Παρασκευές (#fridayforfuture #climatestrike), τα παιδιά μας απεργούν από τα σχολεί
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EU's Overshoot Day – Let’s #MoveTheDate
May 10, 2019, marks the date by which humanity would have exhausted nature’s annual budget if all people lived like EU residents, according to a new report by WWF and Global Footprint Network
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Ethiopia to receive US $1.8bn to improve electricity transmission.
Ethiopia is set to receive US $1.8bn from the State Grid Corporation of China to improve electricity transmission and distribution networks across the country.
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CSP with energy storage to ensure stable power supply.
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) with thermal storage will bridge the dispatchable energy gap according to data and analytics company GlobalData.
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The cost of generating renewable energy has fallen - a lot.
It’s the moment the global sustainable energy market has been waiting for. Battery technology, the essential element in ensuring continuity of supply from weather-dependent sources such as wind and solar, has suddenly become cost competitive.
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Swedish Energy Agency eyes PV to achieve 100% renewables by 2040.
Though PV will remain in the shadow of wind and hydropower in the north of Europe, an ambitious solar deployment scenario in Sweden could lift the market into the gigawatt club through to 2040. Is there a new dawn ahead for Swedish solar?
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Tanzania’s Mbeya coal to power project receives greenlight.
Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) has received green light for the development of the Mbeya coal-to-power project (MCPP). Aim and JSE listed Kibo received the no
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300MW Kam’mwamba coal-fired power project in Malawi underway.
Construction works on the 300MW coal-fired power project Malawi is underway. This is according to Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China Liu Hongyang.
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Botswana railways to establish a coal railway line.
Botswana Railways has aired its plan to start construction of a coal railway line – the Mmamabula-Lephalale line- in 2021. The projects key objective is to establish a higher capacity, heavy-duty coal export line that will facilitate transportation of the resource from Botswana.
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Losing Up To A Million Species Will Create ‘Danger Zone’ For Humanity: Un Commission.
The Earth is on track to lose up to a million species, many of them within decades, a rate of extinction that represents a danger zone for humanity, according to a leaked draft of a global biodiversity assessment due to be released today.
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African Summit on Entrepreneurship and Innovation-ASENTI Accra 2019.
African Summit on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ASENTI) is a non-profit forum that bring SMEs, start- ups and different stakeholders for an intensive interaction, networking and training on entrepreneurship and Innovation from across Africa.
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European Parliamentary Elections – A Guide on candidates for the new EP – from a Renewable point of view.
Elections for the European Parliament are upcoming on the 25th-26th May and the European Political groups have to notify their composition by 24th June.
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