A new Tesla ‘shared Powerbank’ launches as a community alternative to individual Powerwalls
The Tesla Powerwall can be a useful energy storage solution for homeowners with rooftop solar arrays.
Meeting the UK’s climate change targets would need 50GW of solar
50GW of solar would be needed by 2050 if the government is to meet its climate change targets, helping to meet all of summer demand within a zero emission energy system, according to a new report.Aurora Energy Research’s latest publication forecasts the needs of the GB power system under the high renewables scenario required to
Renewables face increasingly level playing field
Adoption of green energy will only grow, as technology makes renewables increasingly cost competitive Opponents of renewable energy—a broad church that can stretch from economists lamenting subsidies’ distortion of competitive markets to climate-change-science deniers, and from hydrocarbons industry incumbents to uncompromising single-issue environmental lobbies—have a problem. Their inconvenient truth is that
‘A total myth’: Green policy costs not to blame for energy price hikes, says new report
Policy costs are not to blame for electricity price hikes in the UK, a study by the UK Energy Research Council has concluded.
Free Government Money for 20 Years
The solar feed-in-tariff (FIT) is still running, and giving a guaranteed 20 years of income.
Mixing it up — how wind and solar can work together
WORLDWIDE: As technology costs come down, combining wind, solar and energy storage looks like the way to integrate renewables at least cost.
Clean energy is cheap, surging – and headed for a fall
Solar and wind projects are transforming Australia’s power grid, but unclear policies will slow new investments
Tidal energy firm makes waves with Tesla battery storage
Nova Innovation claims it has developed the world’s first grid-connected baseload tidal power station
Budget 2018: Hammond’s ‘missed opportunity’ as government prepares energy efficiency overhaul
The UK renewables lobby has once again expressed its exasperation that clean energy failed to merit a mention within this year’s Budget, despite the government teasing an overhaul of tax benefits for on-site generators.Yesterday afternoon chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the 2018 Budget, but during his speech in the House of Commons failed to mention climate
Can Civilization Survive What’s Coming?
The new IPCC report on climate change will fill you with existential dread — rightfully so