Sweden closes last coal plant two years ahead of schedule
Sweden celebrated the closure of its last coal plant this month and even did so two years ahead of schedule. Swedish utility company Stockholm Exergi announced the closure of the KVV6 plant on April 16. The plant first opened in 1989 and was projected to be in use until 2022, but after the Read More...
Coal mine finds new life as “farm to bottle” distillery
When the Landree Coal Mine in Jasonville, Indiana went under, its owners planned to leave it sitting abandoned. Two Indiana University graduates had more ambitious plans for the site and have purchased it to turn it into a “farm to bottle’ distillery. The company, Land Betterment Corp, Read More...
Scotland to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by the end of the year
Scotland is shaping up as an exemplary host for this year’s UN climate conference, as the country is on track to move its energy sector to 100 percent renewables by the end of this year - around the time when the international climate talks are to take place. Environmental organization Read More...
HomeBiogas allows you to generate fuel from your home food scraps
What if plant and food scraps from your home could be used to power your stove? This is the general concept behind biogas, a concept that is being rapidly revolutionized as the world’s demand for clean, renewable energy sources surges. HomeBiogas, an Israeli company, has announced the development Read More...
Your office windows could soon harvest solar energy
Wouldn’t it be awesome if all those windows on high-rise buildings could be used to harvest the sun’s energy for electricity? Of course, it would, and now, thanks to engineers in South Korea, this image could very soon become reality. The researchers have managed to develop a new method of Read More...
Floating solar farms are slowly popping up around America
When officials of Sayreville, New Jersey, decided to install a solar panel array to power a local water treatment, they couldn’t decide where to put it. Building a solar plant big enough to meet their electricity needs would require the town to clear some 15 acres of trees, which isn’t such a Read More...
Clean energy could get a whole lot cleaner thanks to this breakthrough
One of the tricky conundrums with renewable energy is that the materials used to make the devices and batteries that produce clean energy are made out of unsustainable sources. That’s the main reason why researchers have been working on greener aluminum batteries that could one day replace ones Read More...
Solar panels are helping US farmers make ends meet
Since the start of the trade war between the US and China, there have been many people affected by the dispute, but small farmers have been bearing the brunt of it. The tit-for-tat tariffs applied by both countries to each other’s goods have cut demand for American crops, putting many small Read More...
New UN report shows a bright future for renewable energy
If you’re skeptical about the potential of renewable energy in preventing a climate catastrophe in the following decades, consider this: between 2010 and 2019, the world poured $2.6 trillion into clean energy sources and boosted capacity from 414 gigawatts to 1,650 gigawatts, according to a new Read More...
Brits could soon sell their surplus of solar-generated electricity to suppliers
As the UK seeks to spur on the country’s transition towards greener resources of energy, a new government initiative could allow British homeowners with rooftop solar panels to lower their bills by selling their surplus energy to their supplier. Under the new laws, to be introduced later this Read More...