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Green White City
Did you know that the highest tree in the Serbian capital is growing on Zeleni venac? It is not Sequoia sempervirens, Eucalyptus regnans or Picea sitchensis but Stattwerk Biotop – an artificial...
Facebook Joins 100% Renewable Energy Revolution
Facebook announced Tuesday it will slash greenhouse gas emissions by 75 percent and transition global operations to 100 percent renewable energy by the end of 2020 in efforts to "help fight climate...
50% of Industrial Climate Change Emissions Tied to Fossil Fuel Companies
The Rocky Mountain Institute recently released a report titled Decarbonization Pathways for Mines: A Headlamp in the Darkness, in which it was stated that in 2015, half of worldwide industrial greenhouse gas...
ABB solar inverters on the roofs of “Ikea” company
In the endeavour to assist in meeting of the increasing energy demands worldwide, with the minimal negative environmental effects, ABB Company has created extra values for their customers with flexible and innovative...
UK Summer ‘Wind Drought’ Puts Green Revolution into Reverse
Britain’s long heatwave threw the country’s green energy revolution into reverse and pushed up carbon emissions this summer, leading experts to stress the need for a diverse energy mix.The summer of 2017...
Asia’s First Fully Solar-Powered Drone Lifts Off
In April, a group of students from the Innovation & Design Programme (iDP) at National University of Singapore Engineering developed a quadcopter drone that is powered completely with solar energy, without the...
Solar-Powered Car to Speed into the Sunlight by 2019
A German start-up has launched a series of trials to test its new solar-powered car.
Sono Motors’ Sion is an electric vehicle (EV) with one important difference – 330 solar cells built into...
Renewables Powered 88% of Brazil in June
Renewable energy generated 88% of Brazil’s entire demand in June.
Clean power sources such as wind, biomass, solar and hydro accounted for 81.9% of Brazil’s installed capacity of energy generation at the time,...
Community Solar Project Means All Maryland Homes Can Make the Most of the Sun
A pilot programme has launched to allow people in the US state of Maryland to get involved with solar energy – even if they have no roof space or live in the...
Egypt Set to Open Its First Solar Farm – and It’s the Largest in the World
Egypt has long relied on environmentally taxing fossil fuels. Over 90% of electricity is generated from oil and natural gas, and the country subsidizes fossil fuels, making them a cheap option for...
These Massive Renewable Energy Projects Are Powering Chilean Mines
Minerals are so abundant in Chile’s northern Atacama Desert, you can get copper just by kicking the mountain—or so says one of the miners’ favorite proverbs. A century after many of the...
Global Wind and Solar Installations Break 1TW Milestone
Wind generation made up around 54% of this figure, with the solar proportion coming in at 46%.
The volume of wind and solar energy capacity installed around the world has broken the 1TW milestone.
That’s according...
India’s Huge Solar Ambitions Could Push Coal Further into Shade
India says it intends to launch a tender for 100 gigawatts of solar power, 10 times the size of the current largest solar tender in the world – another Indian project scheduled...
New York Announces ‘Energy Storage Roadmap’ to Hit Low Carbon Goals
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced an ‘Energy Storage Roadmap’ to guide the state toward its energy storage target of 1.5GW by 2025.
This figure is equivalent to the electricity demand...
Major Coal-Fired Power Plant in Washington to Go Solar
It was once Washington state's largest coal pit, a terraced, open-to-the-sky strip mine, five miles from the city of Centralia and halfway between Seattle and Portland, Oregon. Today, the coal beds are...
Solar Jobs Could More Than Double In New Mexico
An American Jobs Project report has found that solar jobs in New Mexico could more than double by 2030. Projected growth of the New Mexico solar industry over the next 12 years...