The Queensland government has laid claim to the “world’s longest electric vehicle superhighway in a single state” after the first phase of fast charger station installations was completed last month.
State transport minister...
Florida Power & Light Company has unveiled a solar-plus-storage system that is believed to be the first in the country to fully integrate battery technology with a major solar power plant in...
A record-breaking month of rooftop installations and a flood of large-scale solar farms could almost double Australia’s solar power capacity in a single year, industry analysts say.
A massive solar energy boom is...
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has signed yet another Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Taiwan with the express purpose of helping to develop the Taichung Harbor in Taiwan for offshore wind activities, following...
Microplastics have been found in some of the most remote and uncharted regions of the oceans raising more concerns over the global scale of plastic pollution.
Samples taken from the middle of the...
The global brewing industry is racing to up its climate ambition, with rivals Heineken and Carlsberg both separately announcing progress towards emissions and renewable energy goals.
Heineken yesterday unveiled its 'Drop the C'...
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has announced plans to issue green bonds valued at ₹200 crore (~$31 million) in the financial year 2018-19. The proposal opens up a completely new avenue for municipal...
US spirits and wine producer Brown-Forman has inked a 15-year deal with energy developer Infinity Renewables to purchase 30MW of power each year from an onshore wind project currently under construction in...
More renewable energy tenders can now be expected in South Africa as the government approved an application by national utility Eskom to procure additional renewable energy.
Nearly three years after the South African...
Renewable energy solutions are often hindered by the inconsistencies of power produced by wind, water and sunlight and the continuously fluctuating demand for energy. New research by Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor...
On the heels of the wind energy auctions held by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) last year, the agency has launched a solar power tender as well.
The SECI has floated...
Last month, Brazil announced its intention to begin the process of becoming a full Member of the International Renewable Energy Agency, and this month the Agency has welcomed Brazil’s intentions, saying the...
India achieved an operational solar power capacity of 20 gigawatts by the end of 2017, Mercom India Research has claimed.
According to Mercom India Research, a record 9.5 gigawatts of solar power capacity...
Some critics of solar power say that solar panels don’t produce electricity on cloudy days. This claim is false. Solar panels can still can produce 10–25% of their typical output on a...
The UK's renewables sector continued to perform strongly during the third quarter of last year, according to new official data that shows how increased capacity and availability helped push its share of...
Morrissons has become the latest recruit to the war on plastic, announcing it will begin to "phase out" single-use plastic bags across its stores from March.
The ban will mean single use plastic...
