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A silent revolution is currently taking place almost unnoticed in our industry. For consumers, nothing has changed – their lights are still on, their homes are still heated. But for the past 18 days, it’s happened without the assistance of any electricity generated by coal. All our energy needs have…

The UK must scale-up decarbonisation of heat and transport, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) latest in-depth review of UK energy policies. Whilst the report praises the UK’s overall decarbonisation efforts, it stressed the need for greater investment in the transport and heat sectors if the country is to…

June 11, 2019 – Boulder, CO – A new report from Navigant Research provides an overview of the current state of the global electric vehicle (EV) charging industry, with market forecasts for charger sales, installation, services, and energy consumption, through 2030. Alongside a growing plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market, the…...

Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) announced today that it has completed the installation of Korea’s first floating LiDAR. The installation of the LiDAR is one of the first critical steps in the development of GIG’s first Korean offshore wind farm located about 60 kilometers east of Seosang-myon, Ulju-gun, Ulsan City.…

Leading energy tech company Limejump has signed a new flexible Power Purchase Agreement with Alphagen Renewables, which develops and operates small to medium scale landfill gas to energy projects. Limejump will manage six of Alphagen Renewables’ operations in the UK, including the Docking Biogas plant in Norfolk, through its pioneering…

Leading marine energy developer Minesto has been awarded a €2.5 million grant from the European Commission’s SME Instrument programme. The awarded funding will support the installation of Minesto’s technology in the Faroe Islands together with the utility company SEV. “This is great news for Minesto and our joint project with…

The tidal energy industry in North Wales has this week received a major boost following a Welsh Government investment of £12.6m EU funds in Anglesey-based developer, Minesto. The funding will support the next phase of the company’s ground-breaking project which involves underwater kites generating energy from tidal and ocean currents.…

Geminor has signed a five year contract to export secondary fuels, or RDF, from Iceland to an energy-from-waste (EfW) plant in the Netherlands. The waste will be used as a fuel to produce electricity, steam and heat for industry and district heating. The first shipment will leave Iceland this summer,…

STROMNESS AND LONDON, UK – June 5, 2019 –  Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced a project to supply locally produced ‘green’ electrical power to the MV Hamnavoe NorthLink ferry while docked in Stromness, Orkney, due to get underway shortly. The project…

Earlier this year, South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard went “off the grid” for seven days and lived entirely on energy from the solar panels attached to the roof of his home. Stoddard, a longtime critic of Florida Power and Light who is also a Florida International University biologist, told the Miami…