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6 Enlightening Facts about Solar Energy You Should Know

What you need to know about solar energy and solar panels. Get your solar energy facts straight.

Danish Prime Minister says country aims to remove fossil fuels from domestic flights by 2030

A good place to start.

Coronavirus crisis hits clean energy jobs across the US

Half a million jobs in this sector have been lost in March and April.

New, ultrathin solar cell doubles the current efficiency record by reaching almost 50%

It's a huge step up, but currently quite expensive to produce.

The UK may soon get its first cryogenic energy battery

Energy storage company Highview Power has announced its intention to build a cryogenic energy storage facility in the north of England, a first for the U.K. A decommissioned power plant will be converted to house the cryobattery, according to Highview Power. After completion, the installation will have a 50 MW/250 MWh capacity (roughly as much […]

The million-mile battery promised by Tesla is here

Elon Musk promised a battery that could take an e-vehicle a million miles and last for years at a time. Jeff Dahn, one of the pioneers of the modern lithium-ion batteries, has now delivered on that promise. In a new paper, Dahn announced that the company will soon be in possession of a battery that […]

Scotland will probably reach 100% renewable energy goal 'soon'

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Clean money, clean energy -- a look at investment patterns in the energy sector

Money always talks -- and it's talking renewable.

The UK had a coal-free week -- the first time since 1882

This is the country's first coal-free week since the advent of the Industrial Revolution.

Two-thirds of new energy installed in 2019 was renewable

Yay!

Spain is poised to go fully-renewable by 2050

Está bien!

Europe set to ban halogen light bulbs

Here's why this is a good thing.

London's Square Mile to use 100% renewable energy by October

A step in the right direction.

Massachusetts and Rhode Island to build new offshore wind farms totaling 1.2GW

As developments in Europe drive down installation costs, the US is eager to get clean energy.

BMW pledges to 100% renewable power by 2020, at COP23

BMW is going green-er!

Scott Pruitt says subsidies give renewables an unfair edge, and here's why he's a monumental hypocrite

Capital H.

Nobody is going to make coal great again, says Bloomberg New Energy Finance founder

Sorry, bro.

Chinese province runs on 100% renewable energy for a week, saves half a million tonnes of coal

Bye bye coal.

Green living at home: a list of techs to hack your house into clean energy

If you're looking to power your home cleanly, here's a good place to start.

Earlier this month, California broke yet another green record using over 67% renewable power

Woob woob!

Clean energy creates more than twice as many jobs than fossil in the US, report finds

Breadwinners > Election winners. Just sayin'.

Swiss technology can store heat in the summer to warm up your home all winter

It's like pickling heat.

The combined capacity of the renewable energy sector overtakes that of coal

No more black lung.

Startup plans to fuel our cities by turning windows into power plants

Where there's light, SolarWindow can create power.

Solar Power Today and Tomorrow

Solar power is one of the most efficient yet clean sources of energy we have access to. There are no increased fuel costs or dependencies, no ties to pollutants, and it’s both reliable and affordable. Of course, in order to harness solar power you need access to specific technology. This tech relies on either small-scale […]

Germany more than doubled its offshore wind power capacity in 2014

In 2014, Germany installed 543 offshore wind turbines, reaching a capacity of 2.35 gigawatts (GW), getting closer to their plans of having 6.5 GW of wind energy infrastructure installed and connected by 2020.

Germany sells a vision for new generation green toys

Toys made out of recycled materials are of course a great initiative and can teach your kids a lot, while being very cheap and also fun, but Germany is set to show the world that things can get even better – way better. The latest trend in German green toys have solar panels and only […]

Samsø - The World's Greenest Guinea Pig

If you were to be optimistic, where do you think mankind would get most of its energy a century from now? Most would say from renewable sources. In fact, this project has been going on for a few years now. But just as any project needs, this one has an experiment which so far has […]