Recently energy towers have been back in the hype cycle, specifically the misnamed Solar Wind Energy Tower. How do they stand up to scrutiny? Well, there are numerous good reasons why they don’t appear to make much sense, but there’s one overwhelming piece of evidence that appears at the bottom … [continued]
Alstom, one of the leaders in global power industry has recently signed an agreement with PGE Energia Odnawialna S.A. for the supply of 30 ECO110 wind turbines for the “Lotnisko 90MW” wind farm located in Kopaniewo, Poland. This is the first deal secured by Alstom for implementation of a wind … [continued]
Adnan Z. Amin, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency* and initiator of a series of world conferences on off-grid and minigrid electrification, sees our world on the cusp of unprecedented energy transformation. Not only will the use of renewables for reliable, clean electricity contribute to universal access to power, … [continued]
RenewEconomy Last week was an extraordinary one for Australia’s National Electricity Market. The wind blew out all of its renewable energy records, and – for one week at least – created a new paradigm for the market. As this graph below shows, wind energy effectively became the new provider of … [continued]
Renewables in German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern don’t just provide electricity for all residents; they even create a excess.
Renewable energy will dominate global power sector investments and generation capacity additions through 2030, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
RenewEconomy Last year, in an interview with Stanford University’s Tony Seba, we foreshadowed the remarkable conclusions of his new book: that energy and transportation as we know it will be history by 2030. That book, the Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation, is now published, and it has even more dramatic prognosis: Silicon Valley … [continued]
Two new reports show that clean energy such as solar and wind power could save consumers tens of billions of dollars a year in coming decades.
RMI Outlet By Laurie Guevara-Stone If I told you about a place where almost 40 percent of the people live without electricity, over 90 percent live below the poverty line, and the unemployment rate exceeds 80 percent, you might be picturing a rural village in Africa or some other developing … [continued]
Climate Central By Bobby Magill When the U.S. Energy Information Administration launched its new U.S. Energy Mapping System last fall and upgraded it for use on mobile devices in early June, it powered a system allowing anyone to visualize some of the reams of data the EIA compiles on all things energy-related in the country. … [continued]
