GM Set to Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy in the U.S. 5 Years Ahead of Schedule
100 Percent Renewable Energy
Greek Island Astypalea & Volkswagen: Kick-Off for Transformation to Smart, More Sustainable island
First Volkswagen electric vehicles put into service on Greek island with the goal of full transition to e-mobility Academic study to monitor the transformation of Astypalea Solar Park will provide 3 MW by 2023 Herbert Diess, […]
Norsepower Announces Installation of Five Tiltable Rotor Sails on a VLOC Chartered by Vale
HELSINKI – 13th May 2021: Norsepower Oy Ltd., the leading global provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, today announced the installation of five tilting Rotor Sails on board a new-build Very Large Ore Carrier (VLOC) chartered by […]
Nissan News: Nissan Announces Plans for Major Expansion of Renewable Energy & IMK Concept News
SUNDERLAND, UK – Nissan has today announced plans for a major expansion to renewable energy generation at its record-breaking plant in Sunderland, UK. Complementing the plant’s existing wind turbines and solar farm, the proposed 20MW solar farm […]
Audi & Arcadia offer Renewable Energy Subscription with 2021 Audi E-tron or E-tron Sportback Lease or Purchase
From March 2 to April 30, 2021, customers who purchase or lease a new 2021 Audi e-tron or e-tron Sportback may be eligible for a subscription to Arcadia to power their vehicles with renewable energy Participating […]
4 Recommendations to Electrify the US Federal Fleet
by Erika Myers In his first week in office, President Biden signed an executive order that gives federal agencies 90 days to devise a plan that fully transitions the federal fleet’s roughly 650,000 vehicles — including about 225,000 postal […]
EIA Projects Renewables Share of U.S. Electricity Generation Mix will Double by 2050
In its Annual Energy Outlook 2021 (AEO2021), the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that the share of renewables in the U.S. electricity generation mix will increase from 21% in 2020 to 42% in 2050. Wind and solar […]
Lightning eMotors Adds Production Capacity, Space to Meet Growing Demand from Fleets for Electric Vehicles
With the addition of 107,000 square feet, Lightning eMotors now using 231,000 square feet of space at its Loveland, Colorado facility, with first right of acceptance for over 500,000 square feet of additional manufacturing space New […]
Battery Storage Boost to Power Greener Electricity Grid
Government to relax planning legislation to make it easier to construct large batteries to store renewable energy from solar and wind farms across the UK. Government changes planning rules to maximise UK’s renewable energy storage and […]
Statkraft & GE join forces on New Stability Contract for the GB grid, Increasing Renewables growth and supporting green recovery
Statkraft, Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy, has agreed a deal to help further decarbonize the UK’s power sector and deliver a new approach to managing the stability of the grid. Statkraft UK will install GE’s […]
German Net Electricity Generation in First Half of 2020: Renewables Reach Record Share of 55.8 Percent
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE just presented the data on the net electricity generation for the public power supply for the first half of 2020, which is based on data available on the […]
A Blue-Sky Vision: Clean Energy & Mobility in India’s Recovery
Originally published on the Rocky Mountain Institute’s website. By Ryan Laemel This article was co-authored by Jagabanta Ningthoujam. We at Rocky Mountain Institute have been working in India for the past five years, supporting government and […]
Volvo Cars Chengdu Car Plant Powered By 100% Renewable Electricity
The Volvo Cars manufacturing plant in Chengdu, the company’s largest in China, is now powered by 100 per cent renewable electricity, taking the company’s global renewable electricity mix in its manufacturing network to 80 per cent. […]
The Pros, and Cons of Bio-fuels, and why Some Diesel Engines are so Polluting.
In my previous article I wrote extensively about a specific scheme, in the United Kingdom, for producing bio-gas, which would make the UK self-sufficient for domestic gas, without the use of prime agricultural land, or food […]
Gas From Grass, an Eco-friendly Bio-Fuel
Introduction In January of this year, I wrote 2 major articles, relating to climate change, and what can be done about it. I am now writing follow-up articles about some aspects of that. One item I […]