Portugal is opening Europe’s biggest floating solar park this year
Built on Western Europe’s biggest artificial lake, the shiny floating island of 12,000 solar panels is part of Portugal’s plan to cut reliance on imported fossil fuels.
Built on Western Europe’s biggest artificial lake, the shiny floating island of 12,000 solar panels is part of Portugal’s plan to cut reliance on imported fossil fuels.
Since August 2021, Oregon’s Tri-City Water Resource Recovery Facility has been using methane gas from human waste to generate energy and bolster site resilience.
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) approved a petition filed by Atlantic City Electric Co. (ACE) to cease coal-fired generation at the two plants sometime around June 2022.
Scotland has marked the end of its coal-powered history by demolishing the huge chimney at its last remaining coal plant at Longannet in Fife.
Kenya’s electric utility company, Kenya Power, which is currently the only electricity off-taker in the country that has the mandate of procuring, distributing, and retailing electricity across the country, is piloting electric motorcycles.
The fear of running out of battery power is a barrier to many customers who might purchase an EV. This new coalition helps address that concern.
Net metering is one of the best ways of catalyzing the rapid uptake of distributed renewable energy generation.
Scotland’s gas SGN company will outfit some 300 homes in Fife with free hydrogen boilers, heaters, and cooking appliances. The effort is the largest attempt so far to test whether carbon-free hydrogen can help the UK meet its carbon goals.
In its annual World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that renewables are expected to overtake coal as the primary means of producing electricity by 2025.
A plan is under way to develop 11 solar power plants and 10 wind power plants in the prefecture, on farmlands that cannot be cultivated anymore and mountainous areas from where population outflows continue.