Researchers at Cornell University believe rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas are linked to emissions from the shale oil and natural gas industry.
Read More »Softbank Vision Fund Invests $110m in Swiss Energy Storage Start-Up
Energy Vault claims its technology enables renewables to deliver baseload power for less than the cost of fossil fuels 24 hours a day.
Read More »World’s Most Powerful Tidal Turbine to Be Built in Scotland
Orbital Marine Power has awarded the multi-million-pound manufacturing contract for its ‘O2’ tidal stream turbine to TEXO Group. which will build the technology at its quayside facilities in Dundee.
Read More »Audi E-Tron Becomes First EV to Score Maximum Safety Rating
It received the maximum score from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety after being assessed across six different crash tests.
Read More »Wyoming Wind Farm to Provide Same Power with 80% Fewer Turbines
PacifiCorp is to repower the state’s first commercial wind farm with modernised. more efficient turbines.
Read More »Free Solar Panel Scheme Launches to Help Businesses Go Off-Grid
The energy generated will be supplied to the grid. with the user then able to purchase it back at a discounted fixed-tariff rate.
Read More »World’s Longest Turbine Blade Arrives for Testing in The UK
The Haliade-X 12MW offshore turbine blade is bigger than nine London buses or the pitch at Wembley Stadium.
Read More »US Blacklists Chinese Nuclear Firm Involved in UK Hinkley Point C Project
China General Nuclear Power partnered with EDF to help fund a third of the £20bn cost of the nuclear power plant being built in Somerset.
Read More »Faraday Grid Enters Administration
The firm. which aimed to commercialise its flow control devices and modernise the UK grid. has gone bust after running out of funding.
Read More »Banks Renewables Behind CfD Legal Challenge
It has launched judicial review proceedings against what it says is the government’s discrimination of onshore wind in favour of offshore wind in its CfD auctions.
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