While 2014 remained a challenging time for the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry, it marked an inflection point in the market’s development.
May 20, 2015
May 6, 2015
Wind energy in India
Gamesa, a global technology leader in wind energy, is to build two wind farms in India, of 50 MW and 108 MW, under turnkey arrangements for one of the country’s leading independent power producers (IPP).
May 4, 2015
Ex-Nasa man to plant one billion trees a year using drones
A drone start-up is going to counter industrial scale deforestation using industrial scale reforestation. BioCarbon Engineering wants to use drones for good, using the technology to seed up to one billion trees a year, all without having to set foot on the ground.
April 23, 2015
Australia could source 100% of power from renewables by 2050
Australia is well placed to reduce emissions at low cost because the costs of carbon-free technologies such as wind and solar have fallen significantly in recent years.
April 21, 2015
The Conservation Fund partners with Apple
The Conservation Fund announced that it is partnering with Apple to help protect working forests in the United States. The Apple initiative will conserve more than 36,000 acres of working forestland in Maine and North Carolina, ensuring these forests stay forests and any timber on the land is harvested sustainably.
April 17, 2015
Brazil is building a giant floating solar farm
Generally when you think of solar power, the sun beating down on a dry, dusty desert might come to mind. But in Brazil, a new project will see solar panels installed on a much wetter surface: the surface of a reservoir.
March 12, 2015
Artificial Skylight Could Allow Us to Build Deeper Underground
Shorter days and miserable weather are an annual winter curse across most of Europe, but imitation sunlight could soon be finding its way indoors on the greyest days, during the night, or even into subterranean metro tunnels, thanks to an Italian company that has created a hyper-realistic artificial skylight.
March 11, 2015
Farming Kindergarten
Vietnam historically an agricultural country is facing changes as it moves to a manufacturing based economy, taking its toll on the environment. Increased droughts, floods and salinization jeopardize food supplies, while numerous motorbikes cause daily congestion and air pollution in the cities. Rapid urbanization deprives Vietnamese children of green lands and playgrounds, thus relationship with nature.
March 10, 2015
The Eiffel Tower now generates its own power with new wind turbines
The famous Paris landmark has been fitted with two new wind turbines that generate enough electricity to power the commercial areas of its first floor.
March 9, 2015
Solar Eclipse: An Unprecedented Test for Europe’s Electricity System
European transmission system operators (TSOs) have been preparing for the 20 March solar eclipse for several months. Due to the amount of solar generation involved, it was necessary to evaluate and mitigate the risk, with the aim of bringing the risk of an incident back to the security level equal to that of a standard operating day.
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