Turn Your Halloween Pumpkins Into Power
With the passing of Halloween, millions of pounds of pumpkins have turned from seasonal decorations to trash destined for landfills, adding to more than 254 million…
Renewables
Energy Storage Will Likely Follow Renewable Energy’s Rapid Growth Path
As can be gleaned from recent reports in the popular and trade press, activity is swirling around energy storage systems, highlighted by Tesla’s April 30…
GE Signs Largest Battery Storage Deal to Date
General Electric (GE) signed its largest energy storage deal to date to provide Coachella Energy Storage Partners with a 30-megawatt battery system as part of…
Four reasons why the transition from fossil fuels to a green energy era is gaining traction
Don’t hold your breath, but future historians may look back on 2015 as the year that the renewable energy ascendancy began, the moment when the…
New record in worldwide wind installation
More than 50 GW Additional Wind Power Capacity, Wind Power Worldwide Close to 370 GW According to preliminary figures gathered by WWEA, the year 2014…
How All 50 States Can Go 100 Percent Renewable by 2050
California’s renewable energy revolution is a model for the rest of the United States. The state is now getting nearly a quarter of its power from…
Wind Power Beats Nuclear Again in China
China, the country that is building more nuclear reactors than any other, continued to get more electricity from the wind than from nuclear power plants…
The solar road in the Netherlands is working even better than expected
The Netherlands made headlines last year when it built the world’s first solar road – an energy-harvesting bike path paved with glass-coated solar panels. Now,…
Renewable energy saves significant amounts of water, says new report
Realising the renewable energy plans of the Gulf Cooperation Council region (GCC) will result in a 20% reduction in water withdrawals in the power sector,…
Apple, Facebook, Google progress toward a green internet, but coal-heavy utilities stand in the way
San Francisco, 12 May, 2015 – Major internet companies including Apple, Facebook and Google continue to lead efforts to build an internet that is renewably…
Fossil Fuels Just Lost the Race Against Renewables
An earlier version of this story represented the IEA’s scenario for solar in 2050 as a forecast when it was in fact one of several…
MegaCell launches solar water purification system based on reverse osmosis
MegaCell Engineering, the leading Italian Company focused on Smart Energy System and owned by Mega Group, launched the recently patented SSD (Solar Smart Solar…
Combine solar thermal energy with biomass gasification for natural gas substitute
Even at historically low natural gas prices, bioenergy may not be out of the running — it just may need a little help from the…
The Super Bowl Is An Energy-Guzzling, Carbon-Emitting Machine
The Super Bowl is an energy-guzzling, carbon-emitting, trash-generating machine, and Sunday’s tournament promises to be no different. Tens of thousands of football fans will take…
Plans submitted for world’s first tidal energy centre
Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre project location map Plans have been submitted for the world’s first tidal energy centre, proposed for waters off the Isle of…
NREL Demonstrates 45.7% Efficiency for Concentrator Solar Cell
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has announced the demonstration of a 45.7 percent conversion efficiency for a four-junction solar cell at 234 suns…