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India Offers $1 Billion To African Countries For Solar Projects
Following the first summit of the International Solar Alliance held in New Delhi recently, the Indian government has announced assistance worth $1 billion for implementation of solar power projects across several countries...
McDonald’s to Take Major Bite Out of Carbon Footprint with New Science-Based Targets
McDonald's has become the first global restaurant company to set greenhouse gas targets in line with global climate science, it claimed today as it launched a raft of new green commitments.
The fast...
Vattenfall Awarded Two Subsidy-Free 350 Megawatt Offshore Wind Farms In Netherlands
Swedish power company Vattenfall has been awarded the contract to build two 350 megawatt offshore wind farms in the Netherlands which, upon completion in 2022, will be the first offshore wind farms...
Anchovies and Chips: WWF Warns of Climate Threat to Iconic Dishes
Many of the UK's most popular dishes could become much more expensive, or even disappear altogether, over the coming decades as a result of climate impacts.
That is the stark warning contained in...
Facebook & Adobe Sign PPAs For Electricity From Enel’s 320 Megawatt Rattlesnake Creek Wind Farm
Enel Green Power North America announced on Monday that it had signed two Power Purchase Agreements with Facebook and Adobe for the electricity generated from its soon-to-be-completed 320 megawatt Rattlesnake Creek wind...
St. Patrick’s Cathedral In New York City Goes Green With $35 Million Geothermal Installation
St. Patrick’s Cathedral on New York’s Fifth Avenue is undergoing a $200 million renovation. Part of that upgrade is a new $35 million geothermal heating and cooling system that replaces the steam...
Global Solar Market Installed 98.9 Gigawatts In 2017
The global solar market installed an impressive 98.9 gigawatts of new capacity in 2017 according to SolarPower Europe, increasing by 29.3%, in comparison to the 76.5 gigawatts (GW) and 49% recorded in...
UK Wind Power Hits New Heights
The plummeting temperatures and fresh wave of snow and ice that hit the UK this weekend did not dampen output from UK wind farms, with turbines setting a new wind power record...
Tesla Vies to Build World’s Largest Battery Again
Tesla has already built the world's largest battery in South Australia, a lightning-fast system that switched on in December and recently saved the energy market millions during an outage.
Now, the Elon Musk-headed...
Scottish Islanders Secure £1.3m for Community Renewables System
Residents of the Isle of Canna off the west coast of Scotland have secured £1.3m to largely ditch their diesel power generators in favour of a new community-owned renewable electricity system based...
Superfast Charging Heats up in Poland — GreenWay Lands Locations for Stations
Years ago, when we surveyed both EV drivers and potential EV drivers, we found that a critical feature they were looking for in a car was superfast charging. Access to the Tesla...
For the Cost of an iPhone, You Can now Buy a Wind Turbine
Soon after assuming office, Kerala (southern state of India) Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan kicked up a storm by publicly supporting the Athirappilly hydro electric project, which environmentalists said, if implemented, would create...
China is Winning the War on Air Pollution
China is notorious for having some of the worst air pollution on the planet. In 2014 the country declared war on smog, and the results are in: China is killing it. In...
Green Light for Swindon Council’s Giant 50MW Battery Project
Swindon could soon become home to one of the UK's largest energy storage projects, after a council-backed company secured planning permission for a giant 50MW facility on a brownfield site in the...
Marija JEVTIC: We Have Upset the Planet – Now It Retalitates against Us
On the occasion of the World Environment Day, we had the opportunity to listen to the lecture by professor Marija Jevtic, Ph.D. on air, climate, energy and their importance for health. Marija...
Canadian Solar Sells 235 Megawatt California Solar Portfolio To Korean Utility
One of the world’s largest solar companies, Canadian Solar, announced this week that it had completed the sale of a portfolio of Californian solar projects worth 235 megawatts (MW) to Korea’s largest...