renewable energy

Clean Chemistry Ørsted, an energy company in Denmark, announced in March its new plans to convert electricity from its wind turbines into hydrogen fuel, joining the ranks of several other prominent…

Johannesburg, 9 April 2019 – At least 4.7 million jobs will be created by 2050 across energy sectors in Africa through a shift to renewable energy according to a new report released by Greenpeace…

Nevada’s grid would work smoothly and reliably while delivering 50 percent of the state’s electricity from clean, renewable energy sources like solar, geothermal, and wind according to an analysis…

Reaching the EU’s target of increasing renewable heating and cooling by 1.3% each year will require a diverse array of solutions, says the European Commission’s Hans van Steen. Hans van Steen is…

Wind and solar photovoltaic are way too small to cope with Europe’s massive demand for heating, especially in winter, says Christian Holter, who calls for allocating scarce renewable energy resources…

Singapore banks OCBC and DBS's new coal ban is an Asian game changer. LAST week, in quick succession, Singapore banks OCBC and DBS signalled an end to their financing of new coal power plants. The…

A Finnish university has published a comprehensive global road map on how the world can reduce its carbon emissions before the 2050 deadline – and the research says that it is quite feasible. The …

We know our planet is in deep trouble — but that’s not what this particular Earth Day post is about. This is about what we can do to improve our state of affairs, and the technologies and initiatives…

The nascent green hydrogen market is attracting attention from oil and gas companies as it scales up. British oil giant BP is looking to create Europe’s largest renewable-energy-based hydrogen…

China has a moratorium on building new coal-fired generating stations in ten regions of that vast country because they have more electricity available than there is demand for it. That moratorium is…

Peter Scheijgrond, M.Eng, M.Phil from the Dutch Marine Energy Centre calls for smart support schemes to implement marine renewable energy across Europe The industrial opportunity for Europe…

China was nearly ten years late to the global green bond party, but when the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide did show up it certainly made an entrance. Chinese issuance of green fixed…

Kenya’s independent power producer (IPP) Sosian Energy has signed a deal worth US $65m with Chinese company Kaishan Renewable Energy Development, a subsidiary of Zhejiang Kaishan Compressor, build…

ASIA’S LARGEST OFFSHORE WIND GATHERING The Asia Wind Energy Association is organizing the 6th Asia Offshore Wind Day in Seoul on 9 May 2019.The event will bring together senior executives active in…

Eric Orlich and his wife Gioconda Rojas own two electric vehicles, which they charge at home in the garage thanks to solar panels on their roof. That could soon become the norm in Costa Rica, where…

Once leaving Britain’s highest carbon footprint with their total reliance on fossil-fuel-generated power from the mainland, Orcadians took matters into their own hands about 20 years ago. This move…

To ensure that the rapidly expanding renewable energy capacity and planned auctions of large-scale solar and wind energy projects have the adequate transmission capacity to supply power to demand…

The plummeting cost of solar and wind farms, coupled with government policies driving faster electrification, has cut the cost of reaching global climate goals by US$15 trillion in the last year,…

SOLARINET INC., CANADA SOLARINET INC. started as a Solar Power systems distributor in Canada for the big manufacturers like Schneider, Outback, Canadian Solar, Magnum and others and build a network…

The capacity of energy storage systems around the world is set to increase thirteenfold over six years, from 12 gigawatt-hours of installed capacity in 2018 to an astonishing 158 GWh in 2024,…