Renewables and Efficiency

China’s leading wind developer, Longyuan, and turbine-maker Shanghai Electric have launched what they claim is the world’s first integrated floating wind, solar and fish farming system. The facility is located off Nanri Island in Fujian Province. In 2021, the parties announced they would build the world’s first aquaculture farm integrated …

It’s not just Orsted that just realized the Green revolution is really deep red when it comes to shareholder value. Speaking at the FT Energy Transition summit on Wednesday, a clean energy executive at supermajor BP said that the U.S. offshore wind industry is “fundamentally broken” and needs a reset. …

The United States, the European Union, and the United Arab Emirates are looking to drum up new recruits in the form of other governments to sign onto a global deal that seeks to triple renewable energy investment, according to new documents seen by Reuters. The COP28 climate summit hosts are …

US technology and e-commerce group Amazon.com Inc has further expanded its portfolio of renewable energy projects backing its European operations, adding more than 1 GW of clean energy capacity as it works to achieve its overall renewables goal. The tech giant, which is the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable …

India plans to introduce new rules requiring domestic manufacturers to make solar cells and other key components in the solar module supply chain, India’s Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy, Raj Kumar Singh, said on Friday. The new rules could be introduced in a couple of years, the …

The capacity of Iran’s renewable power plants has reached 1,088.18 megawatts (MW), the country’s Energy Ministry announced. Based on the Energy Ministry data, of the mentioned total capacity, 364.89 MW is supplied by wind power plants, 465.65 MW is provided by solar power plants, 99.47 MW is supplied by small …

Bitcoin miners use an estimated 348 terawatt hours of electricity per year, and with the world increasingly moving to renewables, some are asking the question: just where does Bitcoin get its electricity? To answer that question, Visual Capitalist’s Chris Deckert partnered with HIVE Digital to visualize data from the Cambridge …

The world’s largest offshore wind farm, the Dogger Bank Wind Farm in UK waters, has achieved first power and started sending electricity to the UK national grid, the developers of the project said on Tuesday, hailing the major milestone at the offshore wind farm whose construction continues. Dogger Bank Wind …

UAE-based energy company Masdar has launched four wind farms with a total capacity of 103.5MW, as part of the UAE wind programme. The project sites are Sir Bani Yas Island in Abu Dhabi with 45MW of wind capacity and a 14MW solar farm, two 27MW wind farms on Delma Island …

Europe is losing the global race for solar components manufacturing due to high energy and labor costs and supply chain issues, according to solar industry executives who say the EU lacks incentives for manufacturers to plan future investments. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and facing competition from China and …