Lowering carbon emissions in social housing can yield multiple benefits and improve the ability of tenants to stay comfortable in periods of intense heat or cold weather.
One of the opportunities is…
Brussels – Entitled “Powering a climate neutral, competitive and secure Europe", this declaration calls on EU policymakers to accelerate the uptake of clean and renewable electricity as the most cost…
‘Reforestation is essential but means nothing if we’re still watching the Amazon go up in smoke,’ says Greenpeace.
Images of the Amazon being ravaged by wildfires has unified the public in shock and…
A solar panel that can generate electricity from falling raindrops has been invented, enabling power to flow even when skies cloud over or the sun has set.
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have synthesized magnetically-doped quantum dots that capture the kinetic energy of electrons created by ultraviolet light before it's wasted as heat.
"This…
Orkney-based offshore marine energy construction specialist Green Marine is exporting its skills to Japan as part of a tidal energy demonstration project.
Simec Atlantis Energy, which developed and…
Pulling on makeshift roped hooks along a sun-drenched bank of the Seine River in Paris, Youva Hadjali and Edison Gompo fish out two electric scooters -- not the most ecological fate for devices…
As an increasing number of states focus on renewable energy, batteries are becoming more of a necessity. And according to a new report, battery costs are dropping—but not enough to compete with…
Researchers based in Brazil have developed a way to better control wind energy systems in electrical generation. Wind energy systems are typically expensive to maintain, and they can only convert a…
Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, storing up a potentially huge waste management problem for the…
GE Renewable Energy has signed an agreement with China Huaneng Group, a state-owned power generation company to build a 715MW windfarm in Puyang, Henan Province. The new agreement was signed at the…
International Renewable Energy Agency says Gulf is rapidly adopting renewable energy generation.
The GCC is rapidly adopting renewable energy generation, with the International Renewable Energy…
New blueprint for affordable, sustainable ‘flow batteries’ developed at Berkeley Lab could accelerate an electrical grid powered by the sun and wind
How do you store renewable energy so it’s there…
ROST International Trading, Ltd., and 247Solar Inc., has announced a definitive agreement for ROST to market 247Solar's modular, scalable concentrated solar power (CSP) technology to the worldwide…
Non-renewable thermal power plants will increasingly be relegated to a balancing role, looking for opportunities to generate when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow.
The price of wind…
If all vehicles in British Columbia were powered by electricity instead of liquid fuels by 2055, BC would need to more than double its electricity generation capacity to meet forecasted energy demand…
Renewable energy costs have been falling, but the tariffs sparked by Trump's trade wars put wind power progress at risk, industry officials warn.
Leaders of the wind power industry are warning that…
ZESCO Limited’s assurance that load-shedding will be addressed by next year following the bringing on board of 700 megawatts to the electricity grid is soothing.
Currently, there is dissatisfaction…