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Successful Take-Off: Private Wire Solar Farm Credited with Saving Belfast Airport £100,000

Belfast International Airport has announced it has saved £100,000 on its energy bills in the 10 months since the switch was flicked on the neighbouring Crookedstone Road solar farm. The £5m Crookedstone Solar...

Dressing for Long-Term Success: H&M Vows to Become ‘Climate Positive’ by 2040

Swedish fashion giant H&M has unveiled new plans to become a 'climate positive' retailer throughout its value chain by 2040. The headline target is a key plank of the retailers new '100 per...

Upsolar Charts Course to Bring Floating Solar to European Waters

Buoyant solar panels floating on the surface of lakes and reservoirs could soon become a common sight across Europe, if one PV manufacturer has its way. Hong Kong-based PV manufacturer Upsolar two days...

Mark van Wees: Support for Serbia through IPA project

In mid-September last year the representatives of the GFA Consulting Group took participation at the conference in the Serbian Chamber of Commerce where the beginning of work on the Strategy on Climate...

MEPs vote to ban the use of palm oil in biofuels

MEPs have voted overwhelmingly to ban biofuels made from vegetable oils including palm oil by 2020, to prevent the EU’s renewable transport targets from inadvertently contributing to deforestation. A new palm oil regulation,...

European Coal Emissions Slump 11 Per Cent

The pressure on the European coal power sector was again underlined this week, with the release of new data showing emissions from coal power plants covered by the EU's emissions trading scheme...

BT Inks £185m Wind Power Deal

Two major new corporate renewable energy deals have been inked this week, with BT signing a £185m contract with a Scottish wind farm and building materials specialist Wienerberger agreeing to purchase power...

Scotland and California Pledge Closer Ties on Climate Change and Wind Power

The governments of Scotland and California have signed a joint agreement committing the two administrations to share best practice on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and tackling climate change. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon...

El Salvador Signs Contracts for Four PV Projects at $51.48/MWh

El Salvador’s power distributors have this week signed contracts for the winning projects in the country’s renewable energy auction, which was held by the government in January. Among the projects are four...

Siemens to Provide Wind Turbines for 21 MW Futuren Project in France

Siemens Wind Power has received an order for a new onshore wind project in the southwest of France. The new wind power plant, owned by Futuren, an international independent renewable energy producer,...

SSE and Statoil Buy Out Statkraft’s Stake in Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Pojects

Statkraft has sold its entire stake in four planned offshore wind projects in the Dogger Bank zone off the North East coast of England, with SSE and Statoil snapping up the 25...

World Abandoning Coal in Dramatic Style Raises Hope of Avoiding Dangerous Global Warming, Says Report

As Donald Trump pledges to put coal miners back to work in the United States, the rest of the world appears to have suddenly started moving in the opposite direction, abandoning the...

Thailand-Based B.Grimm Group Developing Hydropower Projects in Laos

B.Grimm Power Co., a unit of Bangkok, Thailand-based B.Grimm Group, in conjunction with its partners, plans to continue developing hydropower plants in Laos, according to an announcement on March 17. Preeyanart Soontornwata, president...

Pakistan To Finally Embrace Solar Power Auctions

Perhaps motivated by the massive crash in the solar power tariff bids across the world, Pakistan is set to shift from feed-in tariff mechanism to competitive auctions in the solar power sector. Pakistan’s...

Scottish Government Grants Planning Approval to Latest Floating Wind Farm

The Scottish government's plans to establish the country as a world-leading hub for floating wind turbine technology took another step forward last week when planning approval was granted for the third demonstration...

Almost 90 Per Cent of US Rooftops Suitable for Solar Power, Google Finds

 Almost 90 per cent of rooftops in the US catch enough sunlight to be suitable for generating solar power, analysis by Google has found. The tech giant's 'Project Sunroof' initiative has analysed around...

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