Renewables and Efficiency

Plans to build the world’s first energy island which would provide power for three million households have been given the green light by Denmark’s politicians. The giant artificial island, to be built in the North Sea, will be as big as 18 football pitches (120,000 square metres) but could end …

Over the past half decade, the energy sector has been going through a major seismic shift, pivoting away from fossil fuels toward cleaner, renewable alternatives. The sector has, amazingly, maintained its momentum amid the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns that brutally disrupted the entire global energy sector. A recent report …

That includes the 163MW Elm Branch and 153MW Briar Creek solar projects that are expected to offset greenhouse gas emissions by a total of 370,000 metric tons annually.

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has launched the spring 2021 edition of its training programme. Eligible students are now encouraged to apply for the virtual training initiative. IRENA Virtual Renewable Energy Training is IRENA’s response to the growing interest in renewables among young people. The programme aims to prepare …

An estimated 15.4GW of utility-scale solar capacity is forecast to be added to the grid in the new year, surpassing the 12GW increase in 2020.

Solar and wind will account for 70% of the nearly 40GW of new large-scale US electricity generating capacity that developers plan to bring into commercial operation in 2021, according to a preliminary estimate by the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA). Get the market insight you need into the global oil …

More than half of German citizens believe that greater use of renewables could strengthen the regional economy, according to a new survey.

An Indian state government has announced the world’s largest floating solar project will begin operations in 2022-23. The government of Madhya Pradesh made the announcement concerning the 600MW capacity facility on the Narmada river. The floating panels will be installed in the backwaters of the Omkareshwar dam and cover approximately …

Small wireless chargers will be installed beneath the tarmac of the road and will ‘communicate’ with technology installed in EVs.

A record 19GW of new solar capacity has been installed this year, according to a new report.