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Uruguay makes dramatic shift to nearly 95% of electricity from clean energy
In less than 10 years the country has slashed its carbon footprint and lowered electricity costs, without government subsidies. Delegates at the Paris summit can learn much from its success. Renewables now provide 94.5% of Uruguay’s electricity. As the world…
Small nations, renewable giants
Uruguay gets 94.5% of its electricity from renewables. In addition to old hydropower plants, a hefty investment in wind, biomass and solar in recent years has raised the share of these sources in the total energy mix to 55%, compared…
NYC to Create the Largest Electric Vehicle Fleet in the US
NYC Clean Fleet, named by NYC mayor Bill de Blasio, is the newest idea in cutting vehicle emissions. This electric vehicle fleet will be the largest to hit cities in the United States. This plan will cut municipal government vehicle…
Climate Change Conference in Kragujevac
On Thursday 1st October, 2015 in Kragujevac a Conference was held under the name “Local communities – key actors in the fight climate change in Serbia” within the set of activities “Ecological challenges: “What about acclimatization?” The Conference was opened…
Geothermal Energy
[tdc_zone type=”tdc_content”][vc_row][vc_column][td_block_text_with_title] Geothermal energy Geothermal is the Earth’s natural heat created by the decay of radioactive elements in the Earth’s crust and is transferred to higher layers of the Earth’s crust. When energy from the interior of the Earth accumulates…
Wind Energy
Energy future in the construction of wind farms Various renewable energy sources together with all the measures for improving of energy efficiency and energy savings represent the only solution for the most urgent and radical reduction of greenhouse gas…
Solar Energy
Why should we use solar energy at all? The sunlight is a source of energy that is responsible for favourable climatic conditions and for the existence of ecosystem on our planet. Most of the energy that is available on…