Category:World

‘My Priority’: Macron Promises to Use Nuclear and Renewables to Deliver Emissions Cuts

Fresh from the success of hosting the One Planet Summit in Paris last week, French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday underscored his commitment to decarbonising the country's energy system. In an interview with broadcaster...

Statoil Chooses Younicos To Supply Battery Storage For Hywind Scotland Floating Wind Project

Statoil, the energy company backed by the Norwegian government, is the majority partner in the Hywind Scotland offshore floating wind farm that began operations in the past few weeks — the first...

London CO2 Cuts Must be ‘More Ambitious in Scale and Pace’, Mayoral Body Warns

London's economy has grown as greenhouse gas emissions have fallen over the past five years, but future decarbonisation in the capital will "need to be significantly more ambitious both in scale and...

Survey: Quarter of Brits More Worried About Climate Change in 2017

After a year which has seen the world hit by a series of devastating weather events and President Trump announce plans to pull out of the Paris Agreement, UK adults are now...

How Cities Can Meat the Climate Challenge

Addressing a crowd of mayors gathered in his hometown last week, former President Obama called on the "new faces of American leadership" on climate change to take swift action to spare our...

World’s Largest Solar-Wind-Storage Plant Planned for India

A wind, solar and battery storage plant is being planned for the southeastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, which has faced power woes in recent months due to grid failure. The renewable energy...

3 Extreme Weather Events in 2016 ‘Could Not Have Happened’ Without Climate Change, Scientists Say

Three of 2016's extreme weather events would have been impossible without human-caused climate change, according to new research. The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society published a collection of papers Wednesday focused on...

College Seeks Investment in Solar Energy

The Federal Government has been urged to invest more in solar energy to meet up with the electricity challenges. At the End of the Year/Graduation of ABITECH Engineering College in Ikorodu, Timothy Obano,...

Vattenfall First to Confirm Zero-Subsidy Bid in Dutch Wind Auction

The Netherlands has at least one 'subsidy-free' bidder for its offshore wind auction after Swedish utility Vattenfall confirmed on Friday its entry to the fray. Vattenfall is the first developer to confirm its...

Tata Power Launches India’s First Solar Carport

Indian companies continue to push for innovation with an endeavor to meet the highly ambitious renewable energy target set by the government. The conducive policy and regulatory regime for the development of...

Alberta (Tar Sands Capital Of The World) Invests In 600 MW Of Wind Power

Bill McKibben calls the Alberta tar sands a “carbon bomb.” Not only does it require huge quantities of energy to separate the oil from the sands, the oil produced creates more carbon...

November Another Strong Month For Scottish Renewables

Wind energy in Scotland provided more than three-quarters of the country’s entire electricity demand in November, according to new figures published by WeatherEnergy and highlighted by WWF Scotland. According to WeatherEnergy, wind energy...

Vestas Secures Largest Indian Wind Turbine Order

Vestas announced on Wednesday that it has received its largest Indian wind turbine order with a 250 megawatt turnkey order stemming from the country’s first wind power auction held earlier this year...

Siemens Announces Production Of New Solar PV Inverters In India

Siemens AG has announced plans to start manufacturing new solar photovoltaic inverters in India through its Indian arm Siemens India. Siemens India recently launched the Sinacon PV, a new generation 5,000 kVA central...

Multinationals Urge EU for Renewables Goal of ‘at Least’ 35 Per Cent by 2030

A group of some of the world's biggest multinational companies including Google, Amazon and Unilever have jointly called on the EU member states to support a binding target of "at least" 35...

Arctic Report Card 2017: Ice Cover Is Shrinking Faster Compared With Prior 1,500 Years

The 2017 Arctic Report Card reflects contributions from 85 scientists representing 12 countries. The pace of sea ice area (hereafter extent) decrease is unprecedented over the past 1,500 years, according to Emily...
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