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 makes unconditional offer to decarbonize its economy and build resilience
Costa Rica plan commits the country to an absolute 25% reduction of net emissions by 2030 compared to 2012. This means a target of staying a 1.73 tonnes CO2e per capita in 2030. The plan offers improvements in governance, transparency, adaptation and urban mobility. This shift the focus from carbon Read More...
Large food brand will power its food factories by mashed potatoes
One of the U.K’s biggest food brands is going green this week by powering one if its factories not by wind or solar, but by potato. In an effort to reduce carbon emissions and eliminate food waste, 2 Sisters Food Group (parent company of some of the UK’s biggest food brands including Fox’s Read More...
How Germany's renewable energy revolution took off
By many measures, Germany is an unlikely birthplace for a renewable-energy revolution. Its reputation for being a generally gloomy country, with few sunny days, is well established. Its onshore wind potential is merely middling. And with the world’s fourth-largest GDP, it requires steady Read More...
Climate change is so bad that the US and China agree on it
For years, China and the US have kept each other locked in a regulatory stalemate over climate change. As political rivals, neither one of the world’s biggest carbon emitters was going to budge unless it was sure any action it took to curb carbon dioxide emissions wouldn’t let the other Read More...
Solar power invades oil-rich Middle East
Solar energy is becoming a major power player in the Middle East In a patch of otherwise empty desert 30 miles south of Dubai, the outline of what is expected to become the Middle East’s largest photovoltaic solar project is taking form in the sands of the United Arab Emirates. The Mohammed Read More...
Walmart doubles down on renewable energy with wind deal
Walmart WMT is taking a big step toward fulfilling its long-term ambition of being wholly supplied by renewable energy with a new deal to buy more than half of the electricity generated by a new wind power facility in Texas for the next ten years. The world’s largest company will buy 58% of Read More...
How investors plan to make money in renewable energy
Renewable energy is going through a boom as big banks, private equity funds, and people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet invest billions of dollars in solar and wind technology. But by the end of next year, a federal initiative that gives residents and businesses a 30% tax credit for installing Read More...
Renewables overtake coal in the UK, wind and solar power capacity surge
There's something big happening in the UK. Al Gore and several business leaders grilled the country this week for cutting subsidies to solar and wind energy, but new government statistics show that Britain is already changing the way it produces electricity. For the first time in history, Read More...
What clean-energy innovators can learn from Apple
We noted in an earlier piece that Bill Gates’s “moonshot” investments to stop climate change, while well intentioned, are misdirected. We do need an Apollo Project for clean energy but it should be an effort that focuses on global deployment of technologies we already Read More...
Stanford researchers cool sunlight to improve solar cell efficiency
Solar panels must face the sun to function. Yet, ironically, they lose efficiency as they heat up. That's why researchers from Stanford University have developed a translucent overlay made of patterned silica that "cools" incoming light for solar panels, effectively dropping the temperature on the Read More...