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Australian Greens’ New Policy Pushes For 20GW By 2020
The Australian Greens have unveiled a new policy that aims for 20GW of energy storage to be installed across the nation by 2030, providing incentives for storage at household and grid level, and try to move the energy debate beyond…
Australian Gullen Range Hybrid Solar & Wind Farm Is Now Generating Energy For The Grid
The Gullen Range solar farm – the first in Australia to be co-located with a wind farm – has begun generation into the grid. The 10MW solar farm is adjacent to the 165MW Gullen Range wind farm, and both are…
Price Of Solar Panels Keeps Falling In The Netherlands
The cost of solar power has never been lower. This is reflected by installations — massive projects are under construction around the globe and a record-breaking 74 gigawatts of installations were completed in 2016. Although this growth is unequally distributed…
World’s First Solar Powered Indoor Vertical Farm Comes To Philadelphia
It’s always sunny in Philadelphia, according to the title of a popular television show. If so, it’s the perfect place for the world’s first solar powered indoor vertical farm. Metropolis Farms has constructed a 500 kilowatt solar array made up…
General Motors Announces Plans To Ramp Up Electric Car Production Over Next 5 Years
First we had Ford announcing the formation of its new Team Edison unit to focus on electric cars. Now we have Mark Reuss, vice president of global product development for General Motors, announcing that his company will introduce two new…
Lush Brews Up Recycled Coffee Cup Packaging Breakthrough
The UK’s High Street coffee chains may be under fire over the billions of single use coffee cups they produce each year, the vast majority of which are not recycled. But they could be about to get a helping hand…
BNP Paribas Launches €100m Green Bond, as Sector Confirms Record 2017 Performance
BNP Paribas Asset Management has this week launched a new €100m green bond focused on mitigating or addressing climate-related issues. The news came just days after the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) confirmed that the record 2016 green bonds total of…