A new solar plant in Hawaii relies on a flock of sheep to keep vegetation from growing over its panels.
The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative’s new 28MW facility in Lawai has employed the...
Ukraine is to build its largest ever wind farm.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has issued a loan of €150 million (£130m) to the country for the construction.
Upon completion, the...
During the 2016 campaign and in various postelection rallies, President Trump promised to save America's flagging coal industry and put the nation's coal miners "back to work." While Trump continues to labor under the delusion that...
Hawaii has a new, game-changing tool in its renewable energy arsenal. Power producer AES Corporation and the not-for-profit Kaua'i island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) unveiled what's claimed to be the world's largest solar-plus-storage peaker on the island of Kauai on Tuesday, the...
The $25 million Kabulasoke Solar Power Park has completed vital critical commissioning tests.
Uganda is celebrating the completion of a new 24MW solar farm in the south of the sub-Saharan nation.
The $25 million (£19.6m)...
New York has completed the construction of a 1.2MW community solar array.
Nearly 200 households and businesses are already benefitting from the site in Brooklyn, which entered operation earlier this month.
The project was...
AB InBev has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement with Lightsource BP.
The brewer of Budweiser in the UK has signed a deal to purchase 100% renewable electricity from solar business Lightsource.
Through the 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA), AB...
Government data shows clean generation made up a record 33.1% of the mix in the third quarter of 2018.
Renewable energy’s share of generation has broken UK records for the second quarter in a...
A new report expects new worldwide solar capacity to total 123GW in the next year.
Global solar installations are forecast to rise 18% through 2019.
That’s the verdict from a new report published by IHS Markit, which...
Washington, DC made history Tuesday when its council voted unanimously to transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2032, the Huffington Post reported.
The commitment is part of the Clean Energy DC Omnibus Act of 2018, which...
Sunny California is officially the first state in the nation to require solar panels on most new homes.
The California Building Standards Commission unanimously confirmed the standards during a vote on Wednesday, The Mercury News reported.
Commissioner Kent Sasaki described...
If Australia maintains its current rate of solar and wind installations through the next decade, the industry could feasibly account for 78% of the country’s electricity supply along its west and east...
The strong winds in the UK helped set a new renewable energy generation record last week.
According to official figures from National Grid, onshore and offshore wind farms hit a new high of...
Europe’s power sector could be fully decarbonised by as early as 2045.
That’s according to a new study from Eurelectric, which says the region could beat the 2050 targets set out by the...
Cooling the Earth by injecting sun-blocking particles into the stratosphere could be “remarkably inexpensive”, according to the most detailed engineering analysis to date.
The fear of a rogue nation or military force unilaterally...
Spain has set out ambitious plans to switch to 100% renewable electricity by 2050.
Under the proposals, the government aims to install at least 3GW of wind and solar power capacity every year...
