Cleaning up renewable energy
A University of South Australia researcher is helping establish a lifetime stewardship scheme to manage renewable energy waste from solar panels.
by Sezen Bakan, The Lead, Australia
Australia has the highest proportion of household photovoltaic (PV)...
FedEx says it will be carbon-neutral by 2040
Company is going all-electric and funding a new Yale center for applied research focused on carbon-negative technologies.
FedEx Corp. announced this week that it wants to achieve carbon-neutral operations globally by 2040. The company laid out three key...
Carbon-negative bioenergy project underway with Chevron, Microsoft and Schlumberger
Big name corporations Chevron and Microsoft are joining Schlumberger on a plan to develop a bioenergy project that will include carbon capture and sequestration. As a result, the energy produced would be carbon negative.
The...
7.39-MW wind power plant in Japan begins operation
On March 2, sustainable infrastructure company Ichigo announced the completion of its 52nd power plant, Ichigo Yonezawa Itaya ECO Power Plant (Ichigo Yonezawa). Ichigo Yonezawa is the company’s first wind plant, with all of...
More US wind power capacity was installed in 2020 than in any other year
According to recent data released from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), in both 2019 and 2020, project developers in the United States installed more wind power capacity than any other generating technology.
In its Preliminary...
Oceanus and EDF advance pumped hydro and reverse osmosis system in Latin America
Oceanus Power & Water LLC, through its subsidiary Oceanus Energia y Agua de Sudamerica SpA, announces a cooperation agreement with EDF to explore various possibilities and conditions for the implementation of the world’s first...
Retail electricity provider Peninsula Clean Energy now offering 100% emission-free power
Peninsula Clean Energy said it has begun providing 100 percent carbon-free electricity to all of its nearly 300,000 customers, which is ahead of California’s 2045 zero-emission power generation mandate and a step in helping...
CSI and Pineapple Energy merging to focus on residential DER market and VPPs
Communications Systems, Inc. (CSI), an IoT intelligent edge products and services company, announced that it entered into a definitive merger agreement with privately held Pineapple Energy, an operator and consolidator of residential solar, battery...
Evolugen and Gazifère announce hydrogen injection projects to be powered by hydro
Evolugen, the Canadian operating business of Brookfield Renewable, and Gazifère Inc., an Enbridge company, announced a green hydrogen project for injection into a natural gas distribution network in Quebec, Canada, to be powered by...
New ‘decade that matters’ report shows shifting attitudes about renewables and climate change
Over the past ten years, vocabulary moved from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’ to ‘climate crisis.’
On March 1, BayWa r.e. launched its new “Decade That Matters” report, a deep dive into online climate discussions...
