Various means such as petroleum products, biomass, sun, wind, water, nuclear fission, lead us to the production of electricity as the ultimate goal. Each of the methods of obtaining energy has its...
Solar panels installed on every roof across Switzerland could produce 83% of the nation’s entire electricity demand.
That’s the calculation made by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy, which worked out potential generation...
A new solar plant in Hawaii relies on a flock of sheep to keep vegetation from growing over its panels.
The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative’s new 28MW facility in Lawai has employed the...
During the 2016 campaign and in various postelection rallies, President Trump promised to save America's flagging coal industry and put the nation's coal miners "back to work." While Trump continues to labor under the delusion that...
Hawaii has a new, game-changing tool in its renewable energy arsenal. Power producer AES Corporation and the not-for-profit Kaua'i island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) unveiled what's claimed to be the world's largest solar-plus-storage peaker on the island of Kauai on Tuesday, the...
The $25 million Kabulasoke Solar Power Park has completed vital critical commissioning tests.
Uganda is celebrating the completion of a new 24MW solar farm in the south of the sub-Saharan nation.
The $25 million (£19.6m)...
New York has completed the construction of a 1.2MW community solar array.
Nearly 200 households and businesses are already benefitting from the site in Brooklyn, which entered operation earlier this month.
The project was...
A new report expects new worldwide solar capacity to total 123GW in the next year.
Global solar installations are forecast to rise 18% through 2019.
That’s the verdict from a new report published by IHS Markit, which...
Osoji Solar seems to think so – it says its dust-cleaning devices could significantly boost solar efficiency.
Could ‘robotic ant’ solar tech put humans out of a job?
Osoji Solar seems to think so – the...
Ambev eventually aims to use only renewable energy sources to supply its operations in Brazil.
Latin America’s largest brewer is to build a solar plant to supply clean power to its distribution centres.
The facility in...
Sunny California is officially the first state in the nation to require solar panels on most new homes.
The California Building Standards Commission unanimously confirmed the standards during a vote on Wednesday, The Mercury News reported.
Commissioner Kent Sasaki described...
Developer Azuri says the technology provides not just entertainment but also education and community bonding.
Solar TVs are boosting education rates and community engagement across off-grid areas of Africa.
That’s according to Azuri, which says...
Renewable capacity has tripled in past five years, even faster growth than the ‘dash for gas’ of the 1990s.
The capacity of renewable energy has overtaken that of fossil fuels in the UK...
Nova Innovation claims it has developed the world’s first grid-connected baseload tidal power station.
Scottish cleantech firm Nova Innovation is using Tesla batteries with its tidal energy technology to deliver what it claims is the world’s...
ReNew Power has secured a tender to build a new 3MW facility in Visakhapatnam
An Indian renewable energy company has won a proposal to develop a 3MW floating solar farmin Visakhapatnam.
The facility to be...
The projects are expected to reduce emissions by more than 2,000 metric tons over the next five years.
New York has awarded $3 million (£2.3m) for colleges and universities to invest in clean energyprojects to...
