Last year, the United Nations sent out a grim warning: The world has a very short 10-year window to act to avert catastrophic and irreversible climate change.
As much as 80% of the European Union’s electricity could be fossil fuel-free by 2030, regardless of whether the European economy faces a prolonged economic crisis, industry association Eurelectric…
Egypt has begun talks over plans to sell electricity to Europe and Africa, pressing its advantage as a producer of cheap renewable energy in a bid to become a regional export hub, the head of its…
Wind and solar, the country’s cheapest source of new generation, also overlooked
Pakistan risks locking itself into building more power capacity than it needs as a result of over-optimistic energy…
The global production of zero emissions steel has taken a massive step forward, with a world leading Swedish project completing the construction of a world-first fossil-free steel pilot plant in…
The utility has added IDR100 trillion in debt annually for the last five years
Utilities globally started changing the way they do business years ago, but Indonesia’s PLN power company stands out as…
Australians are far more welcoming of change than we expect, and are furious at having been shut out of being direct participants.
In August 2015, I spent a cold night at the old TAB Royal Hotel in…
Thinktanks such as Policy Exchange are working to shift power away from state institutions – into the prime minister’s office.
To accumulate power, a government with authoritarian tendencies must…
To understand the movement of the microgrid industry, its instructive to watch it’s large players, particularly, right now, Schneider Electric. The company has been navigating the industry’s…
Electricity demand fell by 13% in second quarter which helped renewables grow to 40% of energy mix.
Carbon emissions from Britain’s electricity system plunged by more than a third during the…
Storebrand says corporate lobbying to undermine climate solutions is ‘unacceptable’.
A Nordic hedge fund worth more than $90bn (£68.6bn) has dumped its stocks in some of the world’s biggest oil…
U.S. coal power generation plunged by 30 percent in the first half of 2020 off an already-depressed base, shoved out by natural gas and renewables amid low energy prices linked to the COVID-19…
Wind and solar energy doubled its share of the global power mix over the last five years, moving the world closer to a path that would limit the worst effects of global warming. The sources of…
Heatwave brings wind turbines to standstill and causes gas plants to struggle.
National Grid has fired up a coal-fired power station for the first time in 55 days after Britain’s record-breaking…
Trouble at biggest mine in Powder River Basin speaks volumes about state of industry
Peabody Energy, the world’s largest privately owned coal company and the biggest U.S. coal producer, has finally…
As the black stuff burnt in the UK plummets to a level not seen since the early steam age, we trace its long, deep history and the problems left in its wake.
Britain achieved an unlikely status as a…
PITTSBURGH: As the world demands more energy, nations face the often-competing pressures to increase energy access and affordability, protect the environment, and assure energy security. The…
Cells are more environmentally friendly and cheaper to produce than traditional silicon-based technology.
Researchers in South Korea have manufactured a ground-breaking form of solar cell using thin…
It is the industry’s responsibility to roll-out the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication networks without increasing energy consumption, Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson writes in a report…