First orders have been taken for Airborne Wind Energy AWE by tethered kite or drone. AWE flies higher than a wind turbine – up where winds are stronger and more continuous – stronger still at night to offset dead solar. KiteNRG of Italy is developing its AWE to 500kW and…...

Industrial software expert, COPA-DATA has warned that Boris’ ambitious wind power plans must not overlook critical investments in software. During yesterday’s conference speech, the prime minister pledged £160 million for a new scheme that he believes will “power every home in the country” with wind power within a decade. The…

Every home in the country will be powered by offshore wind within 10 years, Boris Johnson will tell the Conservative conference on Tuesday as he pledges a green industrial revolution that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs. The prime minister will say the coronavirus crisis should be used as…

Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) has today published its third annual Progress Report. Published and presented at GIG’s annual Green Energy Conference (GEC) 2020, the Progress Report provides an overview of GIG’s activity for the period from September 2019 to August 2020, detailed green impact reporting, and an overview of…

The Directors of Powerfuel Portland have provided more details about how the proposed Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at Portland Port will be a net-zero carbon project for its operational lifetime (up to 30 years). Powerfuel has now submitted a planning application to develop an ERF to generate 15MW of electricity…

Commerz Real has purchased a portfolio of three onshore wind farms in southern Sweden with a total installed capacity of 68.4 megawatts for approx. 82.5 million euros. The seller is the leading Scandinavian developer of wind power stations, Eolus Vind AB, which has a track record of having constructed more…

London, 30 September 2020 – Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions (“MIDIS”) has announced a £120 million long-term debt investment in a portfolio of energy from waste assets operated by Viridor. Viridor operates 11 energy recovery facilities across the UK. The portfolio processes 3.1 million tonnes of non-recyclable waste each year…

Hydrogen is an important alternative for sectors that are stuck in the fossil fuel economy. As national governments and European parliamentarians negotiate the EU’s hydrogen strategy, EASAC issues a new commentary. “Hydrogen can help reduce our dependency on fossil fuels,” says William Gillett, EASAC’s Energy Programme Director. “But the climate…

Leonardo da Vinci was perplexed by the power of the ocean. Notebooks reveal he speculated that tides were caused by the breath of a huge underwater creature — and went on to attempt to calculate the size of its lungs. Generating three terawatts of energy a day, tidal power truly…

Washington DC – Notwithstanding the coronavirus pandemic, renewable energy sources (i.e., biofuels, biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) continue to expand their share of the nation’s energy production and consumption as well as electricity generation, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of data in two reports just released by the…...