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World’s Largest Offshore Wind Turbine Can Power 16,000 Homes
The world's largest and most powerful offshore wind turbine will test its wings at an innovative facility in northeast England.
The 12-megawatt Haliade-X, developed by GE Renewable Energy, stands 853 feet tall, or...
‘Business Unusual’ Must Be the Mantra in Bonn as UN Climate Talks Resume Next Week
As the 2018 climate talks kick off under the auspices of the UN next week, "business unusual" must be the mantra delegations need heard resoundingly in Bonn, said the World Wildlife Fund...
Northern Ireland: Renewables Industry Calls for Long Term Decarbonisation Strategy
Northern Ireland's renewables industry has today published a new low carbon Energy Strategy and called on the government to adopt a number of new targets to ensure recent progress in deploying renewables...
Disney Announces New 50 Megawatt Solar Project To Power Two Theme Parks
Walt Disney World Resort has announced that it is partnering with solar project developer Origis Energy USA to develop a new 50 megawatt (MW) that will power two of its four theme...
Scientists Accidentally Create Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastic Bottles
Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles – by accident. The breakthrough could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis by enabling for the first time the...
New Satellite Could Help Rat Out Methane Polluters
As greenhouse gases go, methane is a heavy hitter – one with a heat-trapping ability 25 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2) over the course of a century. As the second-most abundant...
World’s Largest Desert Growing Even Larger, Partly Due to Climate Change
The Sahara Desert—which takes up about 3.6 million square miles of northern Africa—is growing ever larger, signaling daunting news for people living in the Sahel border region who stand to lose valuable...
Saudi Arabia to House World’s Largest Solar Project
According to the most recent data available from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Saudi Arabia is the second largest oil producer in the world. It produces 13 percent of the world's...
U.S. Asks China to ‘Immediately Halt’ Ban on Foreign Waste
Last year, China—the world's largest importer of waste—announced it no longer wanted to take in other countries' trash so it could focus on its own pollution problems.
This unexpected policy shift, which took...
New Jersey’s Offshore Wind Industry Might Not Be Dead After All
If you can’t make the connection between New Jersey and offshore wind farms, there’s a good reason for that. A few years ago, New Jersey was on track to lead the nation’s...
Flooding and Heavy Rains Rise 50 Per Cent Worldwide in a Decade, Figures Show
Global floods and extreme rainfall events have surged by more than 50 per cent this decade, and are now occurring at a rate four times higher than in 1980, according to a...
HEALTHY ENERGY IS CREATED IN “BASTALISTE”
Katarina MilenkovicKatarina Milenkovic–President of citizen’s society “Ama Centre” and the coordinator of “Bastaliste”
Katarina Milenkovic graduated communication from a Faculty of Political Sciences, the University of Belgrade. She was engaged in journalism and...
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...
Climate Change Harms Human Health
Climate change is already making people sicker, according to a deep-dive written by Renee Cho for Columbia University's Earth Institute on Monday.
Cho pointed to the example of doctors in Florida who are...
Macquarie Group Invests In 226 Megawatt Australian Murra Warra Wind Farm
The 226 megawatt (MW) Murra Warra Wind Farm Stage One has announced financial close this week after securing investments from developer Renewable Energy Systems and banking giant Macquarie Group, which will allow...
UK and Saudi Arabia Ink Clean Energy Partnership, as France Backs Global Solar Push
The controversial UK visit of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman culminated in a new clean energy agreement between the two countries, as the UK sought to underline the role it...
