Text size South Africa’s energy minister was accused of failing to back the country’s energy transition on Sunday after he “snubbed” a billion-dollar green hydrogen deal launched in partnership with the Netherlands and Denmark. The country’s biggest opposition party said energy minister Gwede Mantashe had not signed an agreement on the fund, which was approved … Read more
A recent study conducted by the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Science sheds light on the transformative potential of bamboo in revolutionising the renewable energy sector. These plants could become the next game-changer for renewable energy as the world seeks to find out urgent sources to tackle the imminent challenges in the global ecosystem, … Read more
The Ohio Valley cannot ignore the trend toward green energy, as much as it might like. The question has been whether the green energy industry will ignore the Ohio Valley. The good news is that it has chosen not to. Thursday’s announcement that CSX chose Huntington as the site to build its first hydrogen-powered locomotive … Read more
Britain’s solar industry delivered record levels of renewable electricity to the power grid earlier this year, but as daylight hours stretch longer around the summer solstice, it could be on track to reach another record. Solar power generation in June is on track to come within a hair’s breadth of the record set during an … Read more
Recently, Senator Mitch McConnell distributed a statement opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal to limit fossil fuel emissions from power plants. In it, he implies that fossil fuels equal affordable energy, that decreasing reliability will lead to blackouts, and that we cannot turn to alternative energies because they are not as affordable nor as … Read more
Brighton has scored a second big green energy win this year — a solar module manufacturing plant expected to employ more than 900 workers. VSK Energy Inc. (VSK), a joint venture between India-based Vikram Solar and the private equity firm Phalanx Impact Partners and the development firm Das & Co., plans to invest $250 million … Read more
A blind justice statue. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images Your humble author has pretensions to theory and here is one for your consideration dear reader. Bear with me, but here it is in a nutshell. Governments and policymakers keep drumming it into our ears that … Read more
The North Sea has long been host to some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes and hundreds of rigs for producing oil and natural gas. Now, if European leaders have their way, this shallow and often turbulent stretch of water will, in the coming years, see what could amount to hundreds of billions of dollars … Read more
Australia’s Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen speaks at the Sydney Energy Forum in Sydney, Australia, July 13, 2022. REUTERS/Jaimi Joy/Pool/File Photo SYDNEY, June 24 (Reuters) – Australia has green-lit plans to build a A$51 million ($34 million) renewable hydrogen plant in Victoria state, Energy Minister Chris Bowen said on Saturday, as the country … Read more
San Diego Community Power , the community energy program that has enrolled about 900,000 accounts in the region, has approved a pair of solar-plus-storage projects to boost the amount of renewable power it delivers to customers in the next two years. The first is a 20-year deal with the Yellow Pine III project in Clark … Read more