Work has started on a new Scottish wind farm after energy firm SmartestEnergy agreed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Whirlwind Renewables to buy the power from the project.
Under a 15-year deal...
Hywind is the first commercial floating wind farm, located more than 15 miles off the coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland in the North Sea. Built by Norwegian conglomerate Statoil, the six turbines came...
Renewable energy facilities totalling 2 GW are set to be commissioned in Kazakhstan by end-2020, the Astana Times reports, citing energy minister Kanat Bozumbayev.
The capacity will come from about 52 of renewable...
A Mennonite college in northern Indiana is planning to install more than 900 electricity-generating solar panels on its campus.
Goshen College says the solar panels will be placed atop the school's Rec-Fitness Center....
GE Renewable Energy has unveiled the world’s largest offshore wind turbine, the 12 megawatt Haliade-X which measures in at 260 meters in height and boasting a 220-meter rotor, and is capable of...
Hong Kong has announced plans for a green bond programme with a borrowing ceiling of HKD100bn (US$12.8bn) as part of its budget for 2018/19, in a bid "to demonstrate the government's commitment...
The world's largest solar park set up at an investment of Rs 16,500 crore at Pavagada in Karnataka's Tumakuru district was launched by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today.
The 2,000 MW park, named as...
The rate at which sea level rise is occurring is continuing to increase every year, according to a new study that was published in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy...
Two big names have announced their commitments to using 100% renewable electricity across their operations, digital payments giant Visa and Japan’s largest homebuilder Daiwa House Industry, both of which have also committed...
The air pollution mitigation plans in place in the UK currently aren’t enough on their own to address the issue, and need to be improved, the union’s High Court has ruled, according...
Microsoft has signed its first renewables deal in Asia, inking an agreement with Singaporean solar firm Sunseap to buy all the electricity from a new 60MW rooftop solar project.
The deal, announced yesterday,...
A new study from US researchers has shown that wind and solar power generation could reliably meet 80% of the country’s electricity demand, and 100% could be met by scaling up energy...
California-based independent power company Pattern Energy announced this week that it had acquired 206 megawatts worth of Japanese renewable energy projects and has made a move to acquire controlling interest of Japanese...
Indian Railways will soon launch tenders to set up large-scale solar power projects working towards its overall solar power target of 5 gigawatts.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal recently announced that Indian Railways will...
The Mayor of Rome has announced plans to ban diesel cars from the city centre by 2024, becoming the latest European city to declare war on the fuel.
In an effort to clear...
Spanish wind energy giant Siemens Gamesa announced this week it has signed an agreement to develop 1 gigawatt worth of wind capacity in Turkey.
Announced on Tuesday, Siemens Gamesa revealed that it had...
