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15 10 2019 | 08:34

UK Universities announce £50m green energy deal.

Twenty Universities in the UK have struck a deal to buy renewable energy directly from British wind farms. The Energy Consortium (TEC) has established an aggregated power purchase agreement (PPA)…

15 10 2019 | 08:24

Development banks reducing investment in renewables despite claiming to tackle climate crisis – new report.

New report shows that multilateral development banks funding for renewables fell by half a billion dollars last year. This despite need for clean energy investment to rapidly increase to tackle…

14 10 2019 | 10:05

UN fund gets behind plan to unlock finance for South African renewables.

UN money will help South African PV players underpin project revenues without the need to resort to the government, after a year when Eskom’s woes have cast doubts on the state-offtaker route. The…

14 10 2019 | 10:04

Germany’s Bet on Solar Power May Get Lost in the Wind.

As Germany prepares to pass its climate protection plan through 2030, the government is trying to decide whether to prioritize solar or wind energy. The latest version of the plan leans toward solar…

14 10 2019 | 09:59

Solar PV prices fall to record lows in tender for 900MW solar park in Dubai.

A consortium led by Saudi Arabia-based ACWA Power had reportedly lodged a world record low price bid of $16.953 ($A25) a megawatt hour for a 900MW solar park in Dubai. The bid – reported by…

14 10 2019 | 09:53

Best time for thermal plants to upgrade for renewable energy: GE Steam Power’s Kevin Cogo and GE Power India’s Prashant Jain.

With the rising share of renewable energy, questions are being raised regarding the future of coal-based power plants. Kevin Cogo, who leads GE Steam Power’s rotating equipment product line globally…

14 10 2019 | 09:45

How green is green gas?

Green gas is being talked up of late as one new way forward for decarbonisation. So what exactly is green gas? It could, in fact, be a lot of different things, some of which are far from green. In…

14 10 2019 | 09:38

Jobs, Mpumalanga & death of coal: Switch to renewables will ensure future for the embattled province.

Mpumalanga is not alone in facing a dicey future: Coal regions around the world are in a similar predicament and some governments have already taken steps to compensate coal workers where mines are…

14 10 2019 | 09:34

Breathing new life into renewable energy.

Green technology has come a long way. The next challenge for the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory is to develop ways to recycle the recycling infrastructure. The clean energy sector faces a…

14 10 2019 | 09:25

Renewable news from East Africa.

Kenya gets energy investments record Sh145bn green.

11 10 2019 | 14:00

Vaclav Smil: We Must Leave Growth Behind.

On September 23, the United Nations opened its Climate Action Summit here in New York, three days after the Global Climate Strike, led by Greta Thunberg, swept through thousands of cities worldwide.

10 10 2019 | 14:17

WindEurope Offshore 2019 (26-28/11/2019): how offshore wind will help Europe go carbon-neutral.

Europe needs to expand its offshore fleet tenfold to meet the EU’s climate objectives for 2050. So that leaves us with a question: how do we get there?  

09 10 2019 | 15:45

Coal finished as renewable costs crash.

Bloomberg just published another stark reminder of the shifting landscape for energy generation – fossil fuels have a limited time as viable sources of energy. And I’m not talking about saving the…

09 10 2019 | 14:24

Climate and Energy Experts Debate How to Respond to a Warming World.

Experts in energy and environmental fields weigh in on the need for an urgent transition to alternative energy. As energy demand rises around the globe, so does concern about climate change. The…

09 10 2019 | 13:59

Community Microgrids: Renewables-Driven Resilience.

The Climate Crisis is very much in the news now. This is a global problem, but some of the solutions are happening at a local or regional level. Craig Lewis of the Clean Coalition gave a spirited…

08 10 2019 | 11:36

Last chance! 21-22/10/2019. Register now for the Seventh GGKP Annual Conference, "Achieving Global Energy Transformation".

We are two weeks away from the 7th GGKP Annual Conference (#GGKP7) "Achieving Global Energy Transformation", which will take place on 21-22 October 2019 in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

08 10 2019 | 08:34

Some $71 bln of Japanese coal assets at risk from cheaper renewables.

As much as $71 billion of Japanese coal assets could be at risk as the economic viability of plants is undermined by cheaper renewable energy, research by the University of Tokyo, Carbon Tracker and…

08 10 2019 | 08:23

Policy flip-flops will have India's renewable energy target missing by over 42%

Faced by many a regulatory challenge, policy flip-flops and also a steep fall in tariffs, the country is likely to miss the renewable energy target of 175 GW by 2022 by a wide margin, says a report…

08 10 2019 | 08:14

The Paris Agreement Hinges on a European Hydrogen Economy.

After economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin predicted the rise of The Hydrogen Economy 17 years ago, history failed to cooperate with him. The US, then hooked on foreign oil and destined to run out of its…

06 10 2019 | 18:14

Ramaphosa’s $11bn climate fund, or, how the smart money could turn Mpumalanga into the envy of the world.

In a nation that’s become used to operating in the shadows, sometimes even the mention of sunlight can be met with disbelief.