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.
These US cities are overcoming barriers to clean energy with creative solutions
In the face of inadequate federal action on climate change, cities across the United States are taking matters into their own hands to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonize local energy systems. But city staff face many hurdles when attempting to transition to renewable energy quickly, so Read More...
Norway sets record as it sells more electric vehicles than gas and diesel ones
The EV revolution is blossoming and Norway is here to prove it. In a symbolic first, electric cars outsold fossil fuel-powered ones in the Scandinavian country last month. The country set a record in March when 58.4 percent of new cars sold in the country were battery-powered. To achieve such Read More...
A battery-swapping scheme is electrifying rickshaws in India
In India, where fewer than four million cars are sold annually, auto rickshaws (called tuk-tuks in other Asian countries) are one of the dominant modes of transportation. As India attempts to clean up the country’s troublesome air pollution, some manufacturers are now, for the first time, Read More...
Better battery storage is helping make renewables cheaper than natural gas
Renewables are increasingly becoming more attractive as their costs continue to drop at a stunning pace. Solar and wind plants are now not only significantly cheaper than coal power, as a new report revealed last week, but they're also putting natural gas to shame. New research shows that the cost Read More...
The way utilities earn money is all wrong. New York City is out to change that
Isn’t it strange that your energy bills keep rising even though the quality of our energy infrastructure is not improving? Yes, it is, especially considering that a staggering $55 billion is invested annually into electric utilities a year. The problem is that money is flowing to old-school Read More...
Norway’s oil and gas giant is betting big on energy storage technology
The rise of cheap renewable energy is starting to upend the bottom lines of fossil-fuel companies all over the world. Initially, that was why so many of them instinctively fought the newfangled technologies. Increasingly, it’s why many of them are shifting strategy, hustling to try to profitably Read More...
Corporate giants are making it easier for US companies to switch to clean energy
The green energy transition is essential in our fight against climate change, but to make the transition we need more corporations to get on board! In order to make it easier for companies to switch to renewable energy, some of America's top tech firms, manufacturers, and consumer companies are Read More...
Copenhagen could become the first carbon-neutral capital city by 2025
The capital cities of the world need to take a good look at that ambitious goal that Copenhagen is attempting to achieve. By 2025, the Danish capital wants to be carbon neutral by generating more renewable energy than it consumes from fossil fuels. Technologically speaking, Copenhagen has the Read More...
Simply heating stones could help solve the problem of storing clean energy
Energy storage has long posed an efficiency problem for renewable energy transformation. But lately, new technologies have been emerging that could solve the matter. One of those technologies comes from Denmark and involves a giant facility that heats up stones to 600 degrees as a means of storing Read More...
Puerto Rico passes historic 100% renewable energy legislation
After Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico in 2017, the island was without energy for months, making it an incredibly pain-staking process to deal with the aftermath of the tropical storm. To make sure that never happens again, Puerto Rico has passed a bill that sets the island on a path to Read More...