Thieves steal chunk of China’s new solar highway
Thieves in China have vandalised a newly opened solar highway, less than a week after the road was christened with much fanfare. The one-kilometre stretch of road in the eastern Continue Reading
About half of new U.S. power came from renewables last year
About half of the new utility-scale power on the U.S. grid last year came from renewables and most of that was in the fourth quarter, the government said. The U.S. Continue Reading
Tesla Begins Mass Production Of Solar Shingles
Bloomberg . Musk introduced the concept to industry leaders and brand fans last year. The shingles are topped with a strong glass that allows light to pass through to specially Continue Reading
AkzoNobel and Gasunie investigating large-scale production of green hydrogen; 20MW facility for 3000 tons per year
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals and Gasunie New Energy are partnering to investigate the possible large scale conversion of sustainable electricity into green hydrogen via the electrolysis of water. Intended for Delfzijl Continue Reading
How the Sun Might Help Solve a Looming Water Crisis in the Arab Gulf
For a city in the Arabian desert, Dubai is surprisingly well-watered. Grassy lawns and man-made duck ponds dot neighborhoods called The Springs and The Lakes. Across the United Arab Emirates, Continue Reading
Low Cost Renewables Are Creating A New Middle East
Various countries in the world’s most oil-dependent region, the Middle East, have started to look above ground for generating energy to diversify away from their primary below-ground energy source. Saudi Continue Reading
Clouds drift over US solar industry
With robot precision, a series of machines at SunPower’s headquarters in San Jose, California, slices wafers from an ingot of silicon, treats them and coats them to make cells, and then Continue Reading
UK Smashes 13 Clean Energy Records In 2017
It was a record year for powering the country using renewables in the UK, National Grid has revealed, making 2017 the “greenest year ever”. The year saw 13 clean energy Continue Reading
100% Renewable Energy Worldwide Isn’t Just Possible—It’s Also More Cost-Effective
Transitioning the world to 100 percent renewable electricity isn’t just some environmentalist pipe dream—it’s “feasible at every hour throughout the year” and is more cost-effective than the current system, which Continue Reading
Physicists Just Found a Loophole in Graphene That Could Unlock Clean, Limitless Energy
By all measures, graphene shouldn’t exist. The fact it does comes down to a neat loophole in physics that sees an impossible 2D sheet of atoms act like a solid Continue Reading