By ENEL Foundation Contributor e-buses in Santiago del Chile, the city with the largest fully electric public transportation fleet across Latin America The World Health Organization estimates that about 7 million people die because of air pollution every year, with more than 80% of people living in urban areas where the levels of pollutants exceed…
By Bob Meinetz “Elon Musk’s Tesla cars may have changed the way we look at sustainable driving, but the company’s CEO remains unconvinced that hydrogen cars are the way of the future and even called the idea ‘mind-bogglingly stupid.’During an annual shareholders’ meeting years ago, the enigmatic visionary dismissed the advent of using hydrogen fuel…
By Jenna Tsui The global market for corporate renewable energy surged in 2019, and experts expect significant growth throughout this year.Demand for renewable energy procurement is rising as pressure from both inside and outside of the private sector is encouraging businesses to commit to sustainable and eco-friendly power sources. At the same time, growth and…
By Advanced Energy Economy Last week, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) released their 8th annual “2020 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook,” revealing a decade-long transformation of the U.S. energy sector to cleaner advanced energy resources. The report shows that the United States experienced extraordinary change in how…
By Billy Ludt S-5! Metal Roof Innovations, an authority on metal roof attachment solutions, has been awarded the Metal Construction Association (MCA) Chairman’s Award for metal construction projects of 2019 in the residential category for providing solar mounts to a sustainable California neighborhood. Each year the MCA recognizes outstanding metal construction projects in North America….
By FORESIGHT Contributor Sébastien Godinot, Economist with the WWF European Policy Office, welcomes new European laws that will make it much clearer which investments are genuinely sustainable and help shift funding from fossil fuels to clean energiesA ray of light is set to penetrate the murky world of finance thanks to a new EU law….
By [email protected] (Bengt Halvorson) For those who care about the environment and keeping their driving footprint small, one of the most compelling selling points for electric cars is that your car gets cleaner over time—because the electricity you’re plugging into, from the power grid, is being weaned off coal and toward cleaner and more sustainable…
By [email protected] (Stephen Edelstein) When it comes to making cars friendlier to the environment, emissions are only part of the equation. The materials and production processes used must be considered as well. So Volvo’s electric Polestar brand is looking to use more sustainable materials in future models. The all-electric Polestar 2 has a vegan interior,…
The need to efficiently harvest solar energy for a more sustainable future is increasingly becoming accepted across the globe. A new family of solar cells based on perovskites — materials with a particular crystal structure — is now competing with conventional silicon materials to satisfy the demand in this area. Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are…
By The Energy Mix Pixabay/Pexels Grid modernization, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, public transit, and incentives for sustainable aviation fuels are key components of a five-year, US$760-billion infrastructure framework introduced last week by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, with The Hill concluding the plan puts environment at centre stage.The plan “has major initiatives that…..
By Press Release In response to the growing desire amongst all Australians for real action on climate change, the Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia (BCSD Australia) is convening a summit in our nation’s capital on Tuesday 11 February to accelerate the national conversation on how to transition Australia to a prosperous net-zero economy by…
By Press Release Port of Newcastle has offset carbon emissions from all corporate flights as part of efforts to reduce its impact on the environment and create a more sustainable port. The post Port of Newcastle partners with Greenfleet to offset carbon emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles:…
By Molly Lempriere RBS has announced that it is increasing its lending to the sustainable energy sector, after the securitisation of £1.1 billion of loans to the UK sustainable energy market. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: News – Solar Power Portal
By WPED Staff Evergy and Kansas Governor Laura Kelly announced that the investor-owned utility will expand its wind energy portfolio by 660 MW and reduce carbon output by 80% below 2005 levels by 2050, which is a commitment consistent with the Paris Climate Accord. Electricity from four new wind energy sites will be used to…
By [email protected] Pacific Gas & Electric announced an accord with a key group of Wall Street bondholders this week, bringing it one step closer to its goal of emerging from bankruptcy by midyear. But the California utility still lacks one key partner: Governor Gavin Newsom, who has already rejected PG&E’s plan as insufficient to meet…