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Schneider Electric Boosts its Contribution to Circular Economy Alongside 32 other Major French Companies
AFEP, the French Association of Private Companies, presented its report to Minister Ségolène Royal and Secretary of State Christophe Sirugue, entitled "Circular economy trajectories: 33 companies boost their contribution through 100 commitments”,...
Electric Car Networks Join Forces to Create Open Fast Charge Alliance
Five of Europe's leading networks of electric vehicle (EV) fast-chargers have this week officially launched a new initiative to ensure their technologies are "seamlessly" compatible, allowing users to access over 500 charge...
Frankfurt Institute Doctoral Student Wins ‘Sustainable Energy for all Challenge’ by Improving Modelling Tool Meant to Facilitate Universal Electricity Access
NEW YORK, (Office of Information and Communications Technology) — The United Nations announced recently that Jonas Hörsch, a doctoral student in physics at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, is the winner...
Teesside Collective Unveils Proposal for Industrial CCS Network Designed to Undercut Offshore Wind Power
Ambitious plans to turn the Tees Valley into a globally significant carbon capture and storage (CCS) hub will today take a major step forward with the publication of new proposals on how...
There Is Constantly Fewer Water Resources, Better Management Is Necessary
While preparing for the interview with PhD Nebojša Veljković, we have performed several experiments and easily made sure that the litre of water is more expensive than the litre of petrol. Continuation...
Solar-Power System Could Provide Clean Drinking Water in Rural India for the First Time
A solar-powered purification system could slake the thirsts of rural India with clean drinking water for the first time. This would be no ordinary feat. Tens of millions of people in India...
Making Freshwater from the Sun
To reduce the use of non-renewable groundwater and still meet growing water needs, the production of desalinated seawater in the MENA region is projected to be 13 times higher in 2040 compared...
World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbine Breaks 24-Hour Record for Energy Generation
Anyone who still thinks wind power is just a load of hot air obviously hasn’t been paying attention. Witness the V164, a prototype wind turbine that Denmark’s MHI Vestas Offshore tested at...
U.S. to Pull out of Paris Climate Change Agreement under Trump
As seemed likely from the day Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, the country will pull out of the global Paris Climate Agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
The move had...
Campus Greenhouse Gas Emissions Down 7 Percent Since 2014
MIT’s total campus emissions have dropped by 7 percent since 2014, according to MIT’s second annual greenhouse gas inventory. The inventory, whose results were released by the MIT Office of Sustainability in...
A Step Toward Renewable Diesel
MIT engineers have genetically reprogrammed a strain of yeast so that it converts sugars to fats much more efficiently, an advance that could make possible the renewable production of high-energy fuels such...
Tesla’s New Powerpack Battery Storage Project in Southern California Is the Largest on Earth
Mira Loma, California — Tesla cut the ribbon on a massive battery storage facility in the Southern California desert, 60 miles east of Los Angeles on Monday.
The Powerpack project, a joint venture...
Offshore Wind Energy in U.K. Far Ahead of Lower-Cost Target
The winds of change are blowing harder in the U.K. The price of energy generated by offshore wind farms has been falling steadily, and ahead of schedule too. Costs have fallen 32...
EIB Group Increases Support to Czech Republic by One Third to EUR 619 Million in 2016
The European Investment Bank Group provided EUR 619 million in new loans, guarantees equity in the Czech Republic in 2016, of which EUR 526 million from the EIB and EUR 93 million from...
Campaigners Cheer as EU Member States Vote Against Solar Trade Duties
A host of EU Member States yesterday voted against extending controversial measures imposing a Minimum Import Price (MIP) on solar cells and modules from Asia.
More than half of Member States voted against...
Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to Scrub Climate Pages from EPA Website
The Trump administration on Wednesday backed away from plans to take down some climate-change information from the Environmental Protection Agency’s website, which employees said had been planned for this week. But political...
