More than 47 gigawatts worth of new wind capacity is expected to be installed across Latin America over the next decade according to new analysis from MAKE Consulting.
Enel Green Power North America has signed a $365 million tax equity agreement for the development of the 300-megawatt Rock Creek wind farm set to be located in Missouri, US.
The US Energy Information Administration this week published figures which showed that renewable energy sources accounted for 19.35% of US electricity in the first quarter, well in advance of the Administration’s own predictions for renewable energy.
While the rest of the country marched for the climate in general, Los Angeles county marched for a very specific climate problem. Tesoro has been planning to expand their refinery in Wilmington, CA to start refining tar sands oil shipped in from Canada. Well, the citizens of Wilmington and surrounding cities have had enough.
It’s a warm summer night and you’re enjoying the cool breeze off of a wonderful Caribbean beach. There are no cancer-causing power plants around, because the island has gone solar. A greased up oil company exec is nearby, with the scent of millions or billions earned off the backs of working-class Americans wafting off his pale white chest. No, he doesn’t brag to you about his garage full of Lamborghinis and Rolls Royces, and the way he tried to recreate a Caribbean-like beach next to one of his mansions. No, this oil & gas billionaire — whose fortune was earned only in the most moral of ways — tells you about how he spent his life trying to help humanity, trying to bring a better life to the underappreciated common man & woman.
European consumer goods company Unilever has announced that its UK manufacturing sites are now powered 100% by renewable energy, thanks to several Power Purchase Agreements it has signed over the past six months.
A new report by Australia’s Clean Energy Council has revealed that renewable energy provided a record share of electricity in 2016 thanks in large part to record rainfalls in key hydro catchment areas and the completion of new wind and solar projects.
Spain’s leading infrastructure and renewable energy company ACCIONA has announced the beginning of operations for what the company is billing as the world’s first hybrid grid-connected wind project with battery storage.
Goldwind Americas, a division of China’s largest manufacturer of wind turbines, will offer free training in the wind power industry to unemployed coal miners in Wyoming, which is far more than the state government is doing.
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