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.
A new efficient solar technology material could one day roll onto windows
We are edging closer and closer to a world where buildings capture energy with rooftop solar panels as well as through thin, flexible solar panels that line the windows of buildings. Making these flexible panels wouldn’t be possible with today’s silicon-based solar cells, but a rather new Read More...
Pork power: Renewable energy source?
"The gas from this project will generate carbon neutral electricity compared to the emissions that would result if the waste was left to decay naturally," Fountain went on to add. The facility will be built and owned by Carbon Cycle Energy. According to Duke Energy, the methane, once captured, will Read More...
Meet the South Korean entrepreneurs promising a clean energy revolution
For South Korean millennials born into bright lights, cheap energy and bustling modernisation, the country’s dimly lit, war torn past is a thing of the history books. This made Akas Kim’s trip to rural India, seeing remote villages struggling to secure running water and power, all the Read More...
China to more than triple solar power capacity in five years
China plans to more than triple solar power capacity by 2020 to as much as 143 gigawatts to help reduce carbon emissions. The country will add 15 to 20 gigawatts of photovoltaic power annually in the next five years, Nur Bekri, head of the National Energy Administration, said in a conference in Read More...
EU: Energy efficiency will replace oil as “fuel”
Renewable energy guru, Amory Lovins, famously said: “We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes than in all the oil buried in Alaska.” A new report by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission proves his point. The sum of energy savings plus the renewable energy power of Read More...
Your next alternative power source: Tomatoes
A vitamin-rich tomato is perfect for boosting your energy, but for all the rotten or damaged tomatoes that never reach your plate and end up in the landfill along with the unwanted tomato skins and seeds from processed products like ketchup, the result is a major production of methane, which only Read More...
”Doubling global renewables by 2030 could save $4.2 trillion”
Doubling the share of clean energy in the global energy mix would create more jobs, save millions of lives, limit global warming and save $4.2 trillion a year, say researchers of the International Renewable Energy Agency. Renewable sources, such as wind and solar, accounted for around 18 percent Read More...
Prefab homes for $150,000 that don't need any energy from the grid
Homes in the U.S are responsible for 13 percent of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Building net-zero homes would help bring that number down. But, so far, building such energy efficient homes is expensive. One home-building company is changing this. Deltec homes is designing prefab Read More...
Honda works with GM on fuel cell manufacturing, parts procurement
Honda Motor Company is in talks with General Motors over how to manufacture and procure parts for hydrogen fuel cell stacks as part of a technology development partnership, the Japanese automaker's chief executive said on Thursday. CEO Takahiro Hachigo announced the update on the collaboration Read More...
New grid storage technology helps integrate renewables
Developing cheap energy storage is a critical step in moving to renewables and away from fossil fuels as the primary source of electricity: it’s the only way such intermittent sources can supply power to the grid when the wind’s not blowing and the sun’s not shining. Duke Energy, Read More...