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.
Australia is taking steady steps towards cleaner energy
The Land Down Under is scaling up its efforts to make renewables its primary source of energy. The Australian government has confirmed that it will provide half the funding for a project that will produce hydrogen using solar and wind power, which could then be used to store energy for the Read More...
Wind farms could be installed off the coast of California in just a few years
In the past week, California took major steps to enable companies to lease waters off the coast for wind projects. If all goes as the state’s regulators and utilities expect, floating windmills could begin producing power within six years. This is especially big news for the state as it attempts Read More...
Hawaii is on course to achieve its carbon neutrality goal
In 2015 the Aloha state expressed its commitment to going completely renewable and carbon neutral by 2045, the most ambitious goal in the US. Hawaii is expected to reach those goals as the state’s main utility company is reaching the final steps of a deal to add seven new solar-plus-storage Read More...
Global demand for fossil fuels will peak in 2023, says thinktank
Global demand for fossil fuels will peak in 2023, an influential thinktank has predicted, posing a significant risk to financial markets because trillions of dollars’ worth of oil, coal and gas assets could be left worthless. Explosive growth in wind and solar will combine with action on climate Read More...
This cheap mineral is making LED lighting technology far more efficient
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) may be the most energy efficient light-generating technology we have now, but scientists have found a way to make them even more efficient. Using perovskite, a mineral found abundantly in the Earth’s mantle, as the semiconductor, the LED can produce light more Read More...
The desolated scene of Chernobyl is producing energy once more
After suffering the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986, the land surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear plant has been devoid of human settlement and was thought to remain like this for another 24,000 years. In 2016, however, Ukrainian official came up with the idea of installing a solar farm on Read More...
30 percent of the world’s energy supply to be clean by 2023
The latest annual report of the International Energy Agency suggests that the world will install over 1 terawatt of clean energy within the coming five years. That’s more than the entire power generation of the European Union today. The expected growth is made possible by a rise in the number of Read More...
Wider use of clean energy would reduce power outages during storms
In those moments when we were all experiencing “the calm before the storm,” we could not yet know the impact Hurricane Florence would have on our state, but we were certain it would be significant. In its aftermath, Florence indeed left a devastating mark on some of North Carolina’s Read More...
A new hydrophobic surface could turn the ocean's waves into electricity
There's waterproof and then there's the surface developed by engineers at the University of California San Diego. They've developed a surface so hydrophobic that it can actually be used to generate electrical voltage, turning seawater into 50 Read More...
First California public floating solar power system delivered
Kelseyville County Waterworks District #3 will now host California's first floating solar power system. The innovative new design, announced by its producer, Ciel & Terre USA, will consist of a new 252 kW floating photovoltaic power system which will produce up to 1,650 kWh a year. The 720 Read More...