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Shift Towards Clean Energy in Southeastern Europe: Challenges and Opportunities
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...
Compensation for Conservation: Water Markets Are Economists’ Answer to Scarcity
As cites grow and put more pressure on water sources, scarcity is an increasingly important issue. More than two thirds of the world’s population experience a water shortage every year. Just because...
Costa Rica Is One of the World’s Happiest Countries – Here’s What It Does Differently
Costa Rica is getting something right. The Central American country of stunning beaches, rainforests, and biodiversity, is also known for its stable democracy and educated population.Its president, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, said at...
Germany Agrees to End Reliance on Coal Stations by 2038
Germany has agreed to end its reliance on polluting coal power stations by 2038, in a long-awaited decision that will have major ramifications for Europe’s attempts to meet its Paris climate change...
Sheep and Solar Panels? Not a Baaa-d Idea!
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...
Ukraine to Build Its Largest Ever Wind Farm
Ukraine is to build its largest ever wind farm.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has issued a loan of €150 million (£130m) to the country for the construction.
Upon completion, the...
World’s Largest Wind Turbine to Test Its Wings in Rotterdam
Rotterdam's skyline will soon feature the world's largest and most powerful offshore wind turbine.GE Renewable Energy announced on Wednesday it will install the first 12-megawatt Haliade-X prototype in the Dutch city this...
Hitachi Scraps £16bn Nuclear Power Station in Wales
Japanese giant unable to agree deal with UK as fears grow for Anglesey atomic plant.Hitachi has scrapped plans to build a nuclear power station in Wales, becoming the second firm in two months to...
U.S. Oil and Gas Industry Is Drilling Us Towards Climate Disaster
As the 116th Congress commences, in the wake of dire reports from climate scientists, the debate over U.S. climate policies has taken a welcome turn towards bold solutions. Spurred on by grassroots pressure from Indigenous communities, the...
Wind and Solar Are the Final Nails in Coal’s Coffin
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...
600+ Environmental Groups Urge Congress to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
On Thursday more than 600 environmental groups called on the U.S. House of Representatives to pursue ambitious climate legislation that matches the scale and urgency of the climate crisis.The groups' letter calls for a thoughtful...
Dubai Is Busy Embracing Solar Energy
If there’s one resource that Dubai has in abundance, it’s sunshine. Not surprisingly, the city, set in a sun-drenched desert, has set out to exploit that inexhaustible resource for clean energy generation.The...
World’s Largest Solar + Battery Plant Unveiled in Hawaii
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...
Uganda Celebrates Completion of 24MW Solar Farm
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)...
Pellet Breaks New Paths!
The limitation and harmfulness of fossil fuels in energy production lead humanity towards finding and exploiting alternatives to these dirty energy sources at higher level. Windmills are springing up across our planet,...
Global Coal Generation ‘Plunging into Death Spiral’
Global coal generation is plunging into a ‘death spiral’.That’s the verdict from environmental think-tank Carbon Tracker, which has published a new report suggesting 42% of the world’s operating coal fleets are already...
