Environment

The facility will be located in waters off the coast of Jutland. ah_fotobox | iStock | Getty Images Denmark is to push forward with plans to build a huge artificial island in the North Sea that will act as a major renewable energy hub and cost billions of dollars to develop. The Danish Energy Agency,

Silver as a key component in solar panels makes it a better investment than gold for investors who are interested in the metals market, Goldman Sachs‘ commodities chief Jeffrey Currie told CNBC on Thursday. Currie laid out his case in an interview on “Fast Money: Halftime Report,” and it didn’t have anything to do with

February 4th, 2021 by Zachary Shahan  SunPower has long been one of the largest, most influential, most popular solar power companies in the United States. In fact, its precursor was a core part of what launched the global solar industry decades ago. It is heavily focused these days on getting solar power installed on American

February 4th, 2021 by Jesper Berggreen  If you wonder about the size of the wind turbines that will be used in the project described below, read about my visit to the humongous wind turbine test site last year. Also note that the electricity energy use of the entire country of Denmark (population of 6 million)

Whisky distilleries on an archipelago west of mainland Scotland could soon be powered using electricity generated by subsea tidal turbines. Tidal energy firm Nova Innovation said Wednesday it would install the turbines between the islands of Jura and Islay, which are part of the Inner Hebrides. The move will be another example of how marine

February 3rd, 2021 by Scott Cooney  Rooftop or on-site solar can often generate enough power for homes, businesses, and industry, helping customers become resilient and self-sufficient, and giving them a stable price for clean electricity for decades to come. If you’re in the market for solar, though, one thing needs to be top of mind:

Owaki/Kulla | The Image Bank | Getty Images Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has been given the nod to supply and install turbines for the £6.5 billion (around $9 billion) East Anglia Hub, a major offshore wind development planned for waters off the east coast of England.  In a statement Tuesday, project developer Scottish Power Renewables

February 3rd, 2021 by Jennifer Sensiba  A recent article by Liam Denning and Elaine He at Bloomberg gives readers a really cool set of infographics showing how much energy EVs could save the US economy. They answer the question of “where would all that electricity come from” and make some really good points. The biggest

Workers photographed walking past a section of solar panels at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai on March 20, 2017. STRINGER | AFP | Getty Images BMW said Tuesday it had started to source and use aluminum that has been produced using solar energy, a move the German carmaker described as “an

February 2nd, 2021 by U.S. Energy Information Administration  Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor In the final months of 2020, electricity generation from wind turbines in the United States set daily and hourly records. Hourly data collected in the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Hourly Electric Grid Monitor show an hourly record set late in

Going green is increasingly becoming a way to make bank.  Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, is the richest of the billionaires who owe their fortune to technologies that reduce carbon emissions in the atmosphere, according to an analysis by Bloomberg Green that was published Tuesday. A full $180.7 billion of Musk’s $199.2 billion net

Mobile offshore drilling units stand in the Port of Cromarty Firth in Cromarty, U.K., on Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Jason Alden | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oil services firm Baker Hughes sees energy demand recovering in the second half of 2021, chief executive Lorenzo Simonelli said this week. “We are cautiously optimistic,” he told CNBC’s

February 2nd, 2021 by Zachary Shahan  The most popular CleanTechnica story this past week was about the US Army’ latest foray into the electric vehicle market, followed by the 9th piece in a series about a Tesla Cybertruck–inspired tiny home for the homeless. The third most popular CleanTechnica story of the past week was a

February 1st, 2021 by World Resources Institute  Originally published on WRI’s Resource Institute Blog.By Devashree Saha and Jillian Neuberger  The economic fallout from COVID-19 took a serious toll on U.S. fossil fuel workers and communities. But well before the coronavirus pandemic arrived, the U.S. fossil fuel industry was under significant pressure as the country moves toward cleaner forms of

This image shows Vestas’ V90-3MW wind turbines being used at the Kentish Flats Windfarm in England. John Turp | Moment | Getty Images A turbine production plant owned by energy giant Vestas will now be powered using an environmentally-friendly source of gas, according to a new deal announced on Monday.   A biogas facility off

February 1st, 2021 by Tina Casey  The hits just keep on coming for fossil energy stakeholders, and the worst is yet to come as new low-cost perovskite solar cell technology bubbles up through the R&D pipeline. Helping things along is the US Department of Energy. The agency has spent years plotting the nation’s course back