Tag: solar

Lightsource and BlackRock Announce £1bn Solar Acquisition Spree

Solar developer Lightsource has teamed up with asset manager BlackRock in a strategic partnership aimed at consolidating the secondary UK solar market through around £1bn of acquisitions over the next three years. The...

Protein From Solar Energy & Carbon Dioxide Could Slow The Pace Of Climate Change

Humans need protein to survive, but growing the food that supplies the much needed protein adds carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere, speeding up the pace of climate change. Agriculture has...

Growth in Green Jobs Slows as Industry Waits for Government Action

The growth in the number of green jobs being created across the country has slowed over the last year thanks to the "bonfire" of clean energy policies under the current government, according...

Tech Giants Team Up to Promote Smart City Vision

Renewable energy asset management technology specialist Envision Energy has launched a new initiative to help accelerate the digitalisation of the clean energy transition. The company late last week unveiled the Energy Internet of...

Korea Development Bank Issues $300 Million Green Bond For Renewable Energy Projects

The Korea Development Bank has issued its first green bond aimed at funding implementation and expansion of renewable energy projects. The Bank raised $300 million from investors in Asia, Europe, and the United...

New Stacked Solar Cell Absorbs Energy from Almost the Entire Solar Spectrum

Most traditional solar cells aren’t able to convert long-wavelength photons into electricity. A team of researchers led by Matthew Lumb at The George Washington University is hoping to change that in order...

Sustainable Solar Housing with Urban Farming to Take Root in Eindhoven

A sustainable green design is taking root in the Dutch city of Eindhoven. The city just selected MVRDV and SDK Vastgoed (VolkerWessels) as the winners for the redevelopment competition of the inner...

Google Inks Supply Deal with Largest Dutch Solar Farm

Google's global renewable energy drive has continued with a new deal to purchase renewable power from the largest solar farm in the Netherlands. Dutch clean energy specialist Enenco announced that the tech giant...

Gujarat, India, Floats 1 Gigawatt Renewable Energy Tender

Perhaps for the first time, the Indian state of Gujarat will auction renewable energy projects under its state policy when it puts on the block 500 megawatts each of solar and wind...

Welsh Water Invests £250m to Produce Green Energy

Welsh Water is investing £250m to help produce its own energy needs and cut its £44m annual utility bill. It has agreed the figure in a loan with the European Investment Bank (EIB)...

Greenpeace: Renewables to Undercut All Other Forms of Power Across the G20 by 2030

Renewables have been cheaper or equal in price to power from new coal or nuclear plants in around half of G20 countries since 2015, according to a new Greenpeace commissioned report, which...

Solar Tops Poll of Most Desired Smart Home Technologies

Clean energy delivered by solar and battery storage systems has emerged as one of the most popular smart home solutions on the market, with 44 per cent of people saying they would...

Germany Breaks Green Energy Record by Generating 35% of Power from Renewables in First Half of 2017

Germany raised the proportion of its power produced by renewable energy to 35 percent in the first half of 2017 from 33 percent the previous year, according to the BEE renewable energy...

UK Renewables Hit Record Production

Clean energy delivered record amounts of power to homes and businesses around the country during the first three months of this year, according to official figures published yesterday that underscore the growing...

Sunrun Expands Into Seven New States, Nearly Doubles Market Reach

Sunrun, one of the United States’ leading residential solar developers, announced this week that it has recently completed expanding into seven new US state markets, nearly doubling its market reach in just...

GTM Predicts 27% Drop In Solar Prices By 2022

A new report from GTM Research has highlighted what is becoming an increasingly common refrain these days — solar prices simply continue to fall, and they’re not slowing down, either, with GTM...

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