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.
Germany’s new energy plan is proving successful
Germany is undergoing what they call ‘Energiewende,’ English for ‘energy transition’. The German state is undergoing a serious shift from fossil fuel dominated energy sources to one that’s full of renewables. Critics of the new energy plan said that the mere shift would cause an increase Read More...
California on track to meet renewable goals
California is the largest state in the union, has the 5th largest economy in the world, and provides the majority of the food for the rest of the US. California is also leading the way for clean energy initiatives. Programs set in place by the current governor, and governors before him, have Read More...
Americans calling for solar and wind
Americans by large prefer alternative fuels like wind and solar instead of coal, oil, or nuclear energy—natural gas lands somewhere in between, with pros and cons. The findings were the results of a recently published study conducted over the past 12 years by Harvard researchers. Around 80 Read More...
Madrid is changing all streetlights for energy efficient ones
The city of Madrid has announced the largest energy efficient lighting project in the world. The project will reduce the city’s energy cost 44 percent by replacing old lamps with 225,000 energy efficient bulbs. And according to bulb manufacturer Phillips the project will pay for itself. Read More...
UK’s largest solar array now online
Regardless of its gloomy weather, the UK has now connected their largest solar farm to the kingdom’s power grid. The massive array is located in Oxfordshire and will produce 46 megawatts (MW) of electricity—enough energy to power 14,000 homes per year. Though the massive solar plant is the Read More...
Falling oil prices won’t impact rise of renewables
With the falling oil prices recently many are wondering if this will derail all the progress that has been made toward renewable energy sources—it won’t, and here’s why: Renewables mostly compete with coal-fired power plants for electricity generation. The price of coal has fallen in recent Read More...
Australia sets solar energy record
The efficiency of most solar panels averages between 10 and 15 percent with conversion records hitting around 35 percent. So it’s big news when a team of Australian scientists reports a 40.4 percent conversion efficiency by using commercially available solar cells combined with a mirror and Read More...
Aerodynamic trucks would save billions of gallons of diesel
Energy saving is good business. Take the trucks that carry the majority of freight around the United States. Two million tractor-trailer trucks burn about 36 billion gallons of diesel per year. Researchers have discovered that if 18-wheelers retrofit trailer skirts along the bottom sides of trucks, Read More...
The dawn of efficient, clean and connected micropower
Fossil fuel, coal and nuclear energy driven power plants not only are a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions, they are also quite inefficient. A lot of power—up to 20 percent—is lost in the long distance distribution from these big plants to the end user. This is why microgrids are quickly Read More...
Farmers discover new cash crop: Renewable energy
In the fields of eastern Iowa the same Amish families have tended the land for centuries. Amish like to be independent. That’s why they like—off the grid—renewable energy. Many are joining the new tariff programs that are popping up from Pennsylvania to Washington that allow farmers to trade Read More...