Energy
Transitioning to a world powered by renewable energy is key to tackling climate change. Here you can find the latest good news related to our clean energy transition, covering wind, solar, green hydrogen, hydropower, and more.
Costa Rica runs entirely on renewable energy for 300 days
Renewable Energy Costa Rica has charted another clean energy accolade. So far this year, the Central American country has run on 300 days on 100 percent power generation from renewable energy Read More...
California is on target to reach its renewable energy goals a decade in advance
In 2015, Governor Jerry Brown signed a law that gave California until 2030 to have 50 percent of its electricity come from renewable energy. According to a new report released this month, it seems the Golden state may reach or surpass this goal by 2020. Tax incentives, along with staggering drops Read More...
More and more utilities companies are trading coal power for clean power
Another giant utilities provider has announced its ditching fossil fuels for renewable energy. American Electric Power, who generates nearly half of its electricity from coal, says it will invest $1.8 billion in renewable energy by 2020. The 2018 to 2020 plan is also on top of a $4.5 billion Read More...
Solar energy ‘like light from heaven’ for rural Nicaragua
For most of her life Dina Leiba got up in the dark, and went to bed in the dark. If she needed to get up to look after a sick child, she reached for a torch – if she had money for Read More...
In two years, Scotland will run only on renewable energy
Countries looking to transition to clean energy as quickly as possible should use Scotland as a model nation to follow. Over the past fifteen years, Scotland has gone from garnering 10 percent of its electricity from renewables to 60 percent. Now its on track to supply 100 percent of its Read More...
The world’s tallest wind turbine has been built in Germany
The taller a wind turbine is, the more efficient it is. In fact, for every three feet increase in turbine height, annual energy output increases up to 1 percent. With that in mind, a German company has built the world’s tallest wind turbine, standing at 178 meter (584 ft). The single turbine is Read More...
These greenhouses generate electricity and grow food at the same time
Greenhouses that grow food are good. Solar panels are great. Put them together, and you have a match made in heaven. In California, researchers have created ‘smart greenhouses’ that can capture solar energy for electricity without reducing plant growth. These innovative solar greenhouses Read More...
One of the world’s biggest oil companies is spending $1bn on renewable energy
One of the world’s biggest oil companies is pumping more than $1bn (£763m) a year into alternative forms of energy from algae engineered to bloom into biofuels and cells that turn emissions into electricity. The funds from Exxon Mobil are for more than a hundred of research projects on Read More...
New smart grid platform could help to decentralize the grid
A Dutch company has created a platform that allows a central grid to be divided into smaller cells that can operate independently. The platform tackles a massive issue as it can be quite a painful process for electrical grids to integrate renewable energy. What makes this platform so unique is that Read More...
Nearly 200 million European households were powered by wind on Saturday
As major storms blew over Europe this past weekend, new records were broken in wind energy production. On Saturday, it was reported that a record 24.6 percent of total electricity came from wind power sources in the 28 countries of the European Union, the majority of it being supplied from onshore Read More...