Renewable energy sources now account for around a third of all global power capacity, according to new figures published this week. In 2018 alone, 171 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable capacity was installed. By Joshua S Hill The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) published its annual Renewable Capacity Statistics 2019 report on Tuesday, the most comprehensive, up-to-date […]
Another month passes, another 43 GWh of battery factory capacity is brought into the planning pipeline for production in 2023, adding over 4% to the global total, in just a single month (50% annualized growth). Planned annual output by 2023 will soon cross 1,000 GWh of capacity, with over two-thirds of it in China. That’s enough […]
America has officially entered the “coal cost crossover,” according to a new report by environmental firm Energy Innovation, which finds that local wind and solar could replace approximately 74% of the United States’ current fleet of coal-fired power plants at an immediate cost savings to consumers — a figure which is expected to grow to […]
Members of the European Parliament voted last week on a non-binding resolution endorsing a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target for 2050 and increasing the European Union’s 2030 target. By Joshua S Hill Cleantechnica Amidst a wide-ranging text adopted by 369 votes to 116 (and 40 abstentions), Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) expressed their support […]
Grassroots environmental organization Sierra Club has partnered with one of America’s leading solar manufacturers, SunPower, on a new incentive and rebate program open to the organization’s more than 3.5 million members and supporters. The two organizations announced the partnership on Tuesday in which Sierra Club members and supporters will be given the opportunity to install SunPower’s […]
New Mexico’s Senate and House of Representatives have quickly shuffled a carbon-free electricity bill to the Governor’s desk this week which calls for generating 80% of the state’s electricity from renewable energy sources by 2040 and 100% from “carbon-free” sources by 2045. Check out our joint with @SantaFeReporter on #nmleg's push for renewable energy. Story by […]
American manufacturing powerhouse 3M announced last week that it was committing to move to 100% renewable electricity across all its global facilities by 2050 and has started the process by switching its company headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota (pictured below), to 100% renewable electricity last Friday and kickstarting the company’s efforts by bringing its company-wide […]
Finland has brought forward its coal phase-out date by one year, according to reports, with the new deadline set for May 1, 2029, after which coal will be banned from use as an energy source except in an emergency. By Joshua S Hill Cleantechnica Reuters reported last Friday that the Finnish Parliament approved on Wednesday a […]
The efforts of developing economies to cut carbon dioxide emissions and tackle climate change are beginning to pay off, according to new research led by the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia, with policies supporting renewable energy and energy efficiency development helping to reduce emissions in 18 developed economies. By Joshua S Hill Cleantechnica […]
Corporations based in Europe are among those most likely to be making significant climate-related commitments and progress, with as much as 75% of Europe’s largest corporations acknowledging “transition” risks such as new climate legislation will meaningfully affect their businesses. By Joshua S Hill Cleantechnica These are the key findings from the latest European Report published this week […]
Wind energy provided 14% of the European Union’s electricity last year, according to figures published Thursday by the region’s wind energy trade body, WindEurope, with 11.7 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity added, including 2.65 GW of offshore wind. By Joshua S Hill Cleantechnica The growth of wind energy in Europe has been a mainstay for […]
SolarPower Europe published its official estimates of 2018 new solar capacity figures on Wednesday, revealing that the European Union installed 8 GW of new solar capacity in 2018, an increase of 36% over the 5.9 GW installed and connected to the grid in 2017. Solar installations for the European region as a whole — including […]
Global oil major BP published its annual Energy Outlook last week and predicted that renewable energy will become the dominant global source of power generation by 2040 at the same time as energy demand increases by around a third, driven primarily by rapid growth in Asia. By Joshua S Hill Cleantechnica BP’s annual Energy Outlook […]
Global non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace and internet giant Amazon are trading blows over a report published earlier this week by Greenpeace, which claims that Amazon Web Services is only meeting 12% of its renewable energy commitment in Virginia’s “data center alley.” By Joshua S Hill Cleantechnica Greenpeace published a report on Wednesday entitled Clicking Clean Virginia – The Dirty […]
Onshore wind employment figures plummeted by 37% between 2016 and 2017 in the United Kingdom as the government locked onshore wind projects out from competing in the energy market. By Joshua S Hill Cleantechnica The UK Government’s Office for National Statistics published employment numbers for the country’s low-carbon and renewable energy industries at the end of January, […]