Surge in demand for alternate energy sources and supportive government policies for rooftop installations of solar panels drive the growth of the global solar energy market. Asia-Pacific is projected to grow at the largest CAGR of 25.0% during the forecast period. Daily activities of solar energy plants came to halt due to lockdown imposed by […]

South Africa is introducing three new renewable procurement rounds totaling 6,800MW throughout 2021, as well as three new coal, gas and storage rounds totaling 5,000MW. Announced at a three-day meeting of the African National Congress (ANC), the rounds are expected to increase renewable penetration in the market and boost electricity supply, with a view to […]

The US government plans to replace its fleet of vehicles with electric alternatives, part of a huge public investment in equipment that President Biden says will be the largest since World War II. The goal was announced today, as Biden discussed the Buy American Executive Order and strategies to strengthen American manufacturing and create jobs in the […]

Web giant global number one as Europe steps up to keep corporate renewable energy market growing despite Covid, says BloombergNEF Amazon led the field of businesses buying green power last year as global corporate renewable energy deals hit a record 23.7GW despite the Covid pandemic, said latest annual figures from BloombergNEF. The web shopping giant […]

New York (CNN Business)Europeans got more of their electricity from renewable sources than fossil fuels for the first time last year, according to an annual report from Ember and Agora Energiewende.  The report, which has been tracking EU’s power sector since 2015, found that renewables delivered 38% of electricity last year, compared to 37% delivered […]

As elsewhere, Vietnam’s increasing reliance on energy imports has driven its green energy push. In 2014, the installed capacity of non-hydroelectric renewable energy in Vietnam (such as solar, wind and biomass gasification) stood at 109 megawatts (MW), about one third of one percent of the country’s total installed capacity of 34,079 MW. At the time, Vietnam’s […]

Siemens Energy has joined Mubadala in a strategic partnership to accelerate green hydrogen capabilities in Abu Dhabi and will also collaborate with Masdar and partners on developing clean hydrogen fuels. Around the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, two Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) were signed by Siemens Energy with Mubadala Investment Company as well as with Masdar and other partners to jointly […]

While electric vehicles have seen increased usage in Europe in recent years, a fragmented mess of national legislation and technological diversity is stifling growth. We speak to car manufacturing joint venture IONITY about its plans to replace these overlapping systems with a single charging network for the whole continent to use. An optimist might suggest […]

Wind farms contributed 15% of total electricity generation in Europe in 2020, the sector’s highest ever contribution to the region’s power mix, according to new analysis by EnAppSys. A total of 429 terrawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity was generated by wind farms last year, up 4% on 2019, out of a total of 2727TWh, EnAppSys said. […]

The Mercedes Vision EQS show car will be the base for a coming full-electric luxury sedan. It will be sold alongside the S-Class, which has internal combustion based drivetrains.  After more than 125 years, the end is in sight for the fossil-fuel powered car.  A growing number of countries, which together account for around 45 percent of […]

Egypt’s electricity minister said that the government has worked hard with its development partners to overcome challenges in the electricity sector. LONDON–Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker met with Danish Ambassador to Egypt Svend Olling to discuss improvements to investment opportunities and cooperation in their allied field of renewable energy. The partnership […]

Geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout. While the technology has been around for some time — one could argue, if you look at naturally heated spas of the Romans and springs in Iceland, a very long time indeed — it’s never really been seen as a scalable part of the energy mix in […]

U.S. renewable energy consumption in 2019 surpassed coal for the first time in 135 years, according to the federal Energy Information Administration. Total renewable energy consumption in the United States grew for the fourth year in a row to a record-high 11.5 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) in 2019. Coal consumption, meanwhile, dropped for the […]