How Billionaire Trump Is Missing Greener Pastures
How Billionaire Trump Is Missing Greener Pastures Considering how much he brags about his business acumen, shouldn’t Donald Trump do a better job of keeping…
Renewables
The solar voyager
While Solar Impulse 2, the aircraft powered by solar energy is reaching the end of its journey around the World, another “eco” international industrial enterprise…
Five Takeaways from National Renewable Energy Policy Forum 2016
“Policy still matters” was the theme of this year National Renewable Energy Policy Forum. An event, held in Washington last March, which served to remind…
Time to Revalue Solar
New York Utilities and Solar Companies Jointly Revalue Grid-Exported Distributed Generation to Support Solar Growth On April 18, 2016, a coalition of New York State electric utilities…
Energy Storage: the key to renewables success
For some years now, scientists have been proposing the exhaustion of fossil fuels. The idea of finding a way to make renewables as primary and…
Eleven organizations collaborate on innovation Dutch Windwheel
Eleven companies and research institutes have joined forces to start an innovation program for the development of the ù AM and Royal BAM Group, Deltares, Dura…
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…
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…