renewable energy

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…

Plans to reduce embedded benefit payments for small power generators risks undermining rollout of clean, cheap and flexible energy grid, warn critics The UK renewables sector has responded angrily…

A new study has found that an increase in global wind speeds is set to give a boost to green energy. The research, led by a team at Princeton University, found that as average daily wind speeds are…

In the search for alternatives to fossil fuels, gas as an energy vector has the capacity to play a decisive role. To do this, it is absolutely necessary to green our gas as much as possible, writes…

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.

The impact isn’t uniform. The transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energies is a global pursuit. But it’s faster and more intensive in some countries than in others. Take the case of South Africa…

The Conservative party’s record on tackling the climate crisis has been condemned by leading scientists and former government advisers, as the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, warned that the…

The UK is exporting products and services from wind, wave and tidal energy to 37 countries across six continents, according to a new report from RenewableUK. The report – 'Export Nation' – reveals…

How does one renew an area devastated by nuclear waste? I think of brilliant Akira Kurosawa’s film Dreams. One of the dreams depicts the horror and abyss after the fallout of a nuclear accident.…

Air travel is not the only threat to life on earth, but it is a useful barometer of runaway economic growth and development that, if allowed to continue unmitigated, will irreparably harm the planet…

There are some places on Earth that just lend themselves naturally to wind and solar power. Inner Mongolia, with its abundant sunshine and steady breezes, is one of them. This week, China General…

Big Oil’s shift to renewables will result in a veritable windfall for their shareholders, Norway’s energy consultancy Rystad has said, as quoted by Bloomberg. The reason is easier access to debt…

Global oil demand will reach its peak in the mid-2020s and plateau around 2030, the International Energy Agency said in its World Energy Outlook for 2019.

In the aftermath of the recent PG&E shutdowns, we wrote about the hardships that Californians faced–especially those who didn’t have solar and battery storage available to them.

India may fall around 7 GW short of its ‘60 GW by 2022’ utility-scale solar target if the power purchase agreement revision proposal by the state government is implemented.

Sometimes, a study or report comes to such an obvious conclusion you wonder why the study needed to be done in the first place. Here’s an example. A new study from the Center for Climate, Health and…

Mirova has announced the final close of an €857m fund to invest in clean energy projects. The Mirova-Eurofideme 4 fund has already made its first investments and deployed more than €300m, financing…

The Liberal Democrats are pledging to invest £15 billion over the next parliament insulating homes to tackle climate change and fuel poverty. Plans to upgrade the energy efficiency of 26 million…

Earlier this year, French-born energy company Engie made a bold proclamation — it will add at least 9 gigawatts of renewable energy between now and 2021, at least half of which will come from power…