Renewables growing globally
Tag: Renewable Energy
General Motors to hit 60% renewables target with US solar deal
General Motors has made a significant step toward achieving its goal of sourcing 100% of its energy from renewables by 2040.
General Electric (GE) and Royal Dutch Shell are readying plans to pivot away from fossil fuel
Photovoltaics for highways
New rooftop PV system concept for motorways.
Wider wind-solar complementarity would mean less need for storage
A deeper wind and solar power complementarity could drive much wider renewable energy deployment than developing power projects with storage
EGEB: Wind and solar now generate 10% of global power
Renewable energy growth
EGEB: London Underground could be on 100% green energy by 2030
The London Underground could soon be entirely powered by green energy and become net zero by 2030.
The City of Sydney is now on 100% renewable energy
The Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): A daily technical, financial, and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Spain closes nearly half of its coal-fired power stations
Spain is phasing out coal generation
The challenges and tricks of tacking on battery storage to solar projects
Challenges faced by energy companies when adding battery storage to operational solar installations.
In 2019, 72% of the world’s new energy projects were green
Green energy made up 72% of all new energy projects in 2019, and solar and wind made up 90% of those projects