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In 2006, California adopted aggressive legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and boosting renewable energy production throughout the state. And since then, the state has been tracking its progress through its annual California Green Innovation Index report. The ninth report was just released this week and it shows that the state has made some […]
OK, so the fight against climate change isn’t going flawlessly. But there is some cause for optimism, right? Money is plowing into cheap solar energy, China is leading the world in green investment and Tesla has released a nice new electric car. Already, over a fifth of the world’s electricity comes from renewables, set to […]
The power grid of the future will require sunny skies above and energy storage below. Thanks to Tesla, Kauai has both. https://media.wired.com/photos/598b917d60b7a8321df430ab/master/pass/KAUAI-TA.jpg Feed: All Latest
A WIDELY read cover story on the impact of global warming in this week’s New York magazine starts ominously: “It is, I promise, worse than you think.” It goes on to predict temperatures in New York hotter than present-day Bahrain, unprecedented droughts wherever today’s food is produced, the release of diseases like bubonic plague hitherto […]
Published time: 3 Jul, 2017 10:07 Edited time: 3 Jul, 2017 10:12 The proportion of power produced by renewable energy in Germany has risen to 35 percent in the first half of 2017 from 33 percent last year, according to a BEE renewable energy association report. Generation of green energy in the country has been […]
The Qinghai province in China just used entirely renewable energy for seven days as part of a trial to prove that it is possible to just use green energy. From June 17 to 23, the 6 million people living in the region in Northwest China only used hydro, wind, and solar power as their energy […]
Some wags will always try to claim that EVs are just as dirty as regular cars, because electricity is generated in coal-fired power stations. Except, that’s less true now, which is why the Union of Concerned Scientists has updated its data on how environmentally friendly electric cars are. The results won’t shock you, but the […]
Some wags will always try to claim that EVs are just as dirty as regular cars, because electricity is generated in coal-fired power stations. Except, that’s not really true anymore, which is why the Union of Concerned Scientists has updated its data on how environmentally friendly electric cars are. The results won’t shock you, but […]
Enlarge / The large Barren Ridge solar panel array near Mojave, California. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images) The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released numbers on US electricity generation for the first quarter of 2017, and renewable energy numbers are coming in big. According to the EIA, renewable energy sources like wind, […]
(credit: Lawrence Berkeley Lab) A new study tracking global investment in renewable energy found that investors spent less money in 2016 to add more renewable energy capacity than in any previous year. In total, investors only spent about $ 241.6 billion in renewable energy investments in 2016, down 23 percent from 2015. But they got […]
