Tag: Solar power
California lowers solar energy incentives for homeowners
Save A Lot Solar contractors install LG Electronics solar panels on a home in Hayward, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022.David Paul Morris | [...]
BP invests in firm that supplies ‘rapidly deployable’ solar tech
The BP logo displayed outside a gas station in England on August 15, 2022.Matt Cardy | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBP said it is investing 20 mill [...]
Tesla Mega packs, giant hydrogen tank: Panasonic’s new climate factory
As a bullet train speeds by in the background, a liquid hydrogen tank towers over solar panels and hydrogen fuel cells at Panasonic's Kusatsu plant in [...]
Renewables to be main source of electricity generation by 2025: IEA
Wind turbines in the Netherlands. A report from the International Energy Agency "expects renewables to become the primary energy source for electricit [...]
Energy sector needs firms with mentality of Tesla to move forward: CEO
The energy sector requires new companies with the mentality of a Tesla or Amazon to push forward in the years ahead, according to the ex-CEO of energy [...]
Oil is all that Putin has left, presidential advisor Amos Hochstein says
Amos Hochstein photographed in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 27, 2022.Hussam Shbaro | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesOil is all Russia's economy has left [...]
Green hydrogen project aims to decarbonize Europe’s industrial north
In a statement Tuesday, the Port of Rotterdam Authority's CEO, Allard Castelein, said northwest Europe used "far more energy than it can produce in a [...]
Siemens commissions German production plant
A Siemens logo in Germany. The industrial giant says that a newly commissioned green hydrogen plant in the country will use wind and solar power from [...]
UK’s new energy chief says fracking interesting, we need fossil fuels
Jacob Rees-Mogg photographed in London on Sept. 7, 2022. The lawmaker recently called for more fossil fuel extraction from the North Sea.Carl Court | [...]
As Elon Musk backs fossil fuels, one strategist sends warning over EV sales
The uptake of electric vehicles has increased in recent years, as countries around the world attempt to reduce the environmental effects of transporta [...]
Norway invests in Indian solar project, sees it as a priority market
India is targeting a major ramp up of its renewable energy capacity, but achieving its aims represents a big challenge.Puneet Vikram Singh | Moment | [...]
Goldman doesn’t see nuclear as a transformational tech for the future
A nuclear power plant photographed in Germany, on August 4, 2022. Discussions about nuclear's role in Europe's biggest economy have been thrown into s [...]
Surging temperatures are good for solar panels, right? The answer is: It’s complicated
This image, from May 2022, shows solar panels in Worcestershire, England. The recent hot weather in the U.K. has led to a discussion about the optimum [...]
Europe’s energy giants explore potential of floating solar
Floating solar panels in the Netherlands. A number of major energy firms are looking into the potential of combining floating solar with other energy [...]
The race to make green hydrogen competitive is on
One type of hydrogen production uses electrolysis, with an electric current splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen. If the electricity used in this [...]