Sweden Will Ban Sale Of Gasoline & Diesel Cars After 2030 Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven has announced that the sale of cars with gasoline or diesel engines will be banned in his country after 2030. Sweden now joins Denmark, India, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Israel on the list of nations which say they will ban [...]
World’s Greenest Companies Are Consistently Outperforming Their Non-Green Peers The world’s greenest and most sustainable companies have been highlighted in two parallel reports published this week by CDP, the non-profit global environmental disclosure platform, and Canadian media and research company Corporate Knights, with the common thread in both lists being the consistent economic performance of companies committed [...]
100 Percent Clean Energy: What Will It Take To Get There? Some argue that 100 percent clean energy is not the right goal, as the last five to 20 percent will be hard to achieve. But even getting to 80 percent clean energy is a monumental step from where we are today. The question is: what really has [...]
Ambitious plans to export renewable energy from Australia Australia’s northwest desert region has some of the world’s best solar and wind resources. An underwater high-voltage Direct Current (HVDC) link connecting Indonesia’s Java-Bali power grid to the Australian National Electricity Market grid through the Northern Territory would help both nations to achieve a 100% renewable power system [...]
Turning Solar Energy Into Liquid Fuel How About Turning Sunshine Into Liquid Fuel For Solar Thermal Energy Storage? Of all the strange things we do as a race on this planet, refining and over-complicating things are some of them. We’re never satisfied with letting things be and often time favor extravagant conspiracy theories over reality. After [...]
10 Predictions for Rooftop Solar and Storage in 2019 With the solar industry chaos of 2018 behind us, many of us are looking toward more predictable growth from 2019 at least until the Investment Tax Credit goes to zero for residential and 10% for commercial on December 31, 2021. Then again, we’re on the solar coaster, [...]
Reshaping Energy Systems for Future Cities The fact that approximately 74 percent of Europe’s population are city-dwellers is a testament to how people have been drawn to cities throughout history. Whether for a lack of job opportunities in rural areas or possibilities for a better lifestyle, unfortunately, the unprecedented speed and scale of urbanization do put [...]
Chinese Researchers Claim About Wind Resources A team from the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with a researcher from Purdue University in the U.S., analyzed data from more than 1,000 weather stations worldwide and found 67 percent had experienced a significant decrease in wind power potential since 1979. The amount of wind power available to [...]
The Year of 100% Clean Energy Supporters of the "Green New Deal" call for a select committee to develop a mobilization plan to tackle climate change and aid the transition to a just economy. Many localities have announced 100 percent clean energy or renewables goals in 2018. Some were more ambitious than others, but the sheer volume [...]
Feeling Blue About Climate Change? You’re Not Alone Friends, family, colleagues and reporters have all asked whether we're optimistic or hopeful about our ability to limit the severity of future climate change. And we'll be honest: we're not. But that doesn't mean we should give up—in fact, that would be among the worst things we could [...]
