Renewables and Efficiency

A unit of China’s State Power Investment Corp. has brought online a 500-megawatt solar farm in the northeastern province of Liaoning. the nation’s biggest subsidy-free solar project.

Most of today'.s solar panels capture sunlight and convert it to electricity only from the side facing the sky. If the dark underside of a solar panel could also convert sunlight reflected off the ground. even more electricity might be generated.

The facility will represent around 10% of Kosovo’s total installed capacity when complete and reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions by roughly 247.000 tonnes.

Environmental thinktank Sandbag claims biomass does not allow near-immediate carbon and cost reductions.

The 50MW Guzman plant is scheduled to start operating in the first quarter of 2020.

The steelmaker says the pledge will help it contribute to the European Commission’s Green Deal.

The company said it will no longer invest in new coal-fired power plants and will progressively phase out all remaining coal assets by 2050.

That’s according to a raft of new statistics released by the Department for Business. Energy and Industrial Strategy. covering the period from July to September.

The facility will represent around 10% of Kosovo’s total installed capacity when complete and reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions by roughly 247.000 tonnes.

A new report suggests Zimbabwe. Zambia. Namibia and Mozambique all generate a much larger proportion of their energy from clean sources.