OPINION: Solar and battery storage: A clean solution to a dirty problem
You can hear—and smell—them everywhere you go in the world’s poorest countries. Diesel-burning back-up generators wail through neighborhoods at all hours, cough noxious pollutants into the air, and account for a disproportionate amount of consumers’ spending on electricity. For
Extinction Rebellion begin hunger strike outside Tory and Labour offices demanding urgent climate change action
Demonstrators call on government to back ‘three demands bill’ amid international fast Extinction Rebellion protesters have begun a hunger strike outside the Conservative and Labour parties’ headquarters to demand urgent action on climate change. Over 200 demonstrators in the
Apocalypse Got You Down? Maybe This Will Help
Searching for a cure for my climate crisis grief. One day early this fall, 19 people gathered in a small event space in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and sat in a circle. They included an immigration lawyer, a therapist, an
Powering the investment case for battery storage
The U.K. government was the first major economy in the world to pass laws to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. But to achieve this ambition is going to take some major changes – not least of
Power to the people: how suburban solar could become the Uber of the energy grid
Australians are embracing the ‘virtual power plant’, which advocates say can protect the grid, save money and combat the climate crisis Power to the people might remain a political pipe dream, but changes taking place in the energy market
Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People
Creator of the ‘ecological footprint’ on life and death in a world 4 C hotter. "Carbon emissions may continue to rise, the polar ice caps may continue to melt, crop yields may continue to decline, the world’s forests may
Scientists and climate advisers condemn Tory environmental record
Party under pressure on climate crisis as Corbyn says Johnson can not be trusted The Conservative party’s record on tackling the climate crisis has been condemned by leading scientists and former government advisers, as the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn,
Battery Energy Storage
Batteries are having a moment. In early October, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to three scientists for their research on lithium-ion batteries. Their work decades ago led to batteries becoming smaller,
Power Cut Backup Options with Battery Storage
What are the different backup options with a home battery.