Faced with soaring fuel prices exacerbated by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, GoMetro, a mobility company based in Cape Town, South Africa, is preparing to deploy electric minibuses in the city of…
Greece has launched a series of renewable energy tenders to procure new solar PV and wind power capacity in separate auctions and joint tenders. Earlier this week, it held its second-ever joint…
The electricity sector has been a cornerstone of the energy transition. But with the pace of change increasing, are power markets helping or hindering?
Centralized markets with prices set by the…
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…
The classical Greek philosopher Socrates believed the ideal house should be warm in winter and cool in summer. With clarity of thought like that, it's easy to see how the great man got his reputation…
A new report from analysts at Wood Mackenzie forecasts 6.6 GWh of residential energy storage to be installed across Europe by 2024. The economics of the technology are at a tipping point,…
Poland generates most of its electricity from coal, and the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party won 2015 general election partly on promises to sustain the coal industry.
Polish energy officials have called for a major overhaul of EU power markets, saying the deployment of up to 100% renewables will require a decentralised way of trading electricity, based on local “…
A new asset class is coming to the energy industry.
One of the most exciting innovations in energy over the past decade has been the development of energy storage technology. Batteries have become…
Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables projects a thirteenfold increase in grid-scale storage over the next six years. Here’s a market-by-market breakdown.
For the energy storage industry, the past…
Investors in General Electric, once one of the world's most valuable companies, lost tens of billions of dollars after the Paris climate deal as it failed to adapt to the pace of the green energy…
Price slump is one sign of Europe’s determination to phase out coal as it seeks to slash climate warming emissions, analysts say.
Gas and coal prices are plunging in Europe, hurt by the relentless…
In 2011, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the country was turning away from nuclear energy in favor of a renewable future. Since then, however, progress has been limited. Berlin has wasted…
Last year was the first time since 2001 that growth in renewable power capacity failed to increase year on year.
Statistics from International Energy Agency (IEA) reveal that new net capacity from…
Good year for wind energy with 51.3 GW new installations.
According to the 14th 'Global Wind Report' from the Global Wind Energy Council and as GWEC director of market intelligence Karin Ohlenforst…
The first phase of a new £28.5m project has been launched to create a virtual energy system in Orkney, Scotland, to digitally link distributed and intermittent renewable generation to flexible demand…