To kick-start the financial arrangements for the nearly 100 GW planned capacity addition over the next 7 years, the Indian government is seeking $3 billion from international development banks. The government is said to be in talks with the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, KfW, the Japan International Cooperation … [continued]
The sun is shinning brightly for the western Indian state of Rajasthan, as commitments made by solar power project developers have overshot the state government’s capacity addition plans. Some of the leading solar power project developers in the world and India have signed memoranda of understanding to set up 40 … [continued]
Green jobs are growing because solar power, wind power, energy storage, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, and other green industries are all expanding quickly. Wouldn’t it be great to have new, fresh green job postings in one huge website where anyone could search for a new job that they liked, or … [continued]
It’s Day 1 after the soft March 31 deadline the United Nations set in Lima for developed nations to submit official plans (INDCs) for their individual efforts to combat climate change. Remember what’s new about these numbers: they represent the world’s first bottom-up estimates, determined by the emitting countries themselves … [continued]
Wealthy nations spend, on average, roughly 5 times more on export subsidies for fossil fuel technologies than for renewables, based on newly revealed data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Given that the European Union is home to many of these wealthy nations, but is also one … [continued]
Ah, the Silicon Valley giants can’t stop competing. As you all know, Google has unveiled an electric, self-driving car that it is working on. Apple hasn’t made anything official, but even leaders in the auto industry now agree that Apple is working on its own self-driving (almost definitely electric) car. Then, of … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Spain’s Banco Santander, the biggest bank in Europe by market value and once the world’s largest financier of renewable energy projects, has decided to sell its only Australian renewable energy investment and quit the country’s renewables market, due to Australia’s policy uncertainty around the renewable energy … [continued]
The US Environmental Protection Agency has finally released the results of its new fracking study, and it raises more questions than it answers.
Originally published on ilsr.org The US electricity system is undergoing the biggest change in its 130-year history, undermining the rationale for monopoly ownership and control. Until recently, electricity service was similar to water or roads, where a natural monopoly was most efficient. Only a single, standardized electric grid was needed to … [continued]
Originally published on 1Sun4All. The Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) round-the-world attempt is not only about solar cells stretched across the wings of one of the most beautiful airplanes ever built — behind the aeronautic record lies a very powerful message Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg want to share with the world. Existing clean … [continued]
