I don’t think I’ll ever look up again when I hear a plane overhead. The finest flights, like a bird’s, are now soundless to me. The drone of internal combustion engines is no longer state of the art for aviation. By powering human flight, a new kind of energy has … [continued]
Not working to stop global warming is one of the most disgraceful, horrible things a policymaker can do. It demonstrates a complete lack of morals — unless the policymaker is simply ignorant, but that is very barely a legitimate excuse these days, given that the opinions of thousands of climate scientists are … [continued]
WWF-Scotland has called on the Scottish Government to make greater use of the country’s renewable energy resources and potential. According to WWF-Scotland, the upcoming governmental review of Scotland’s energy strategy must strive to make greater use of the country’s renewable energy potential, and set out plans to be powered by … [continued]
Researchers from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland are fine tuning perovskite solar cells with a “burst” of vacuum flash.
Originally published on the ECOreport. In the midst of what is probably the ugliest pre-election contests of recent memory, one of California’s best known solar companies has gotten into the act with a campaign of its own. For its “Who’s the Brightest Candidate?” campaign, Sungevity used its remote solar design software to calculate how much solar … [continued]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Washington this week to meet with President Barack Obama and address the US Congress. Representing 2 of the world’s top 4 greenhouse-gas-emitting nations, they discussed important issues for the international community, including development, energy access, international finance, and climate change. “Climate and energy is an area … [continued]
Global primary energy consumption in 2015 increased by only 1%, according to new figures released in BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy. One of the world’s seven supermajor oil and gas companies, BP, has released the 65th edition its Statistical Review of World Energy, in which it sets out and analyzes energy … [continued]
New US solar PV installations in the first quarter accounted for 64% of all new electric generating capacity installed across the country, according to new figures from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association. (Editor’s Note: This matches up essentially precisely my my estimate of 64.3%. And note that … [continued]
Originally published on the ECOreport. After almost a year of feeding the grid, British Columbia’s first utility-scale solar installation has proven it can “do what it was designed to do.” Though SunMine’s production fell in December and January, the site was back within 95% of the projected yield by the end of … [continued]
How a small village in Gujarat can address India’s dual problem of power subsidies and ground-water depletion. By Akhilesh Magal The weakest link in India’s power sector is the power utility. India’s power utilities have accumulated total losses of over INR 3.8 trillion ($55 billion) and an accumulated debt of INR … [continued]
