Portugal’s solar energy auction sees record low paid for a licence - 14.76 euros per megawatt hour
Portugal’s huge auction of solar energy broke a world record, with one of the 24 licences on offer selling for 14.76 euros per megawatt...
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Seychelles bans plastic bags, cups, plates and cutlery
Seychelles has banned the importation, sale and commercial use of plastic bags, cups, plates and cutlery. The importation ban took effect...
Scotland Now Generates Sufficient Wind Energy, It Could Power Two Scotlands
Seeing countless renewable energy records broken and milestones passed has been a constant source of encouraging news for our...
Record solar power generation in France in June
Electricity production from solar panels in France rose 15.4% to a record 1.4 terawatt hour (TWh) in June due to long sunny spells and...
Africa’s largest wind farm launches in Kenya
Kenya’s position as a leader for renewable energy continued with this month’s launch of the Lake Turkana Wind Project. The president of...
Wind Turbines Deliver More Energy Than Coal in Texas–the Largest Consumer of Coal in US
For the first time in history, wind energy accounted for more electrical usage in Texas than coal. The Electrical Reliability Council of...
Morocco to build largest global solar plant and achieve 50% of electricity from renewables by 2030
Morocco's status as a global poster-boy for renewable energy was confirmed in May when it signed a $780mn contract to build Noor Midelt,...
Six offshore wind farms in France granted EU approval for go live 2022
The European Commission has given the green light for plans to build six new offshore wind farms in France. Each of the wind farms will...
Germany's renewable energy provides more electricity 47.3% than coal and nuclear power combined
Solar, wind, biomass and hydroelectric power generates nearly half of country’s output Renewable sources of energy produced more...
New York awards 1.7GW of offshore wind contracts to power 2m+ homes by 2025 - largest to date in US
New York has awarded the largest offshore wind energy contracts in the US, with a total capacity of 1.7GW. They are expected to help...
Scotland's Beatrice the fourth largest offshore wind farm in the world to be opened
The Beatrice project is the fourth largest offshore wind farm in the world, with only two projects in England and one off the Netherlands...
Maersk container ship operator offers customers carbon-neutral transport. H&M Group to trial first.
20 June 2019 A new carbon neutral product – the first of its kind in the industry - is being piloted with select Maersk customers who are...
Fossil fuels drop to record low in UK and now provide 79.4 per cent of overall UK energy mix
The latest set of energy figures released by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) showed the UK's...
Renewables produce more power than fossil fuels across EU in first 6 months in 2018/9
For the second consecutive year, renewables produced more power than fossil fuels in the first and second quarters of 2019. That’s the...
France Will Implement New “Ecotax” on Plane Tickets in 2020
Starting next year, all flights departing from France will have up to $20 of tax added to the fare. The French government will implement...
CDP points to 700 companies targeted by investors for not disclosing environmental information
Group of 88 investors target over 700 companies for not reporting environmental information Exxon Mobil, Amazon and Volvo among the 707...
Transitioning to Hydrogen - IET report concludes we can repurpose gas network to hydrogen
The UK is investigating supplying hydrogen to homes and businesses instead of natural gas by “repurposing” the gas network. It presents a...
Michael Bloomberg puts $500m into Beyond Carbon project, to close US coal plants by 2030
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is plunging $500 million into an effort to close all of the nation’s remaining coal plants...
Shell targets fewer greenhouse gases by around 20% by 2035 and by around half by 2050.
WHAT IS SHELL'S NET CARBON FOOTPRINT AMBITION? Shell is a big company that supplies around 3% of the energy the world uses. We want to...
Search Engine ECOSIA uses the money it earns to plant trees, 58 million so far
Each search actually removes 1KG of CO2 Can a search engine offset its carbon footprint and go even further? This is what Ecosia have to...
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