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5 Solar-Powered Generators to Give You Cleaner, Cheaper Emergency Power This Winter
Having lived for eight years on the coast at Wilmington, North Carolina, on a jaunty spit of land that sticks out into the ocean and catches northbound Atlantic hurricanes like a greedy fishhook, I've spent a lot of time sipping hot cocoa over a…
Stray Drones Spawn a Growing Area of the Insurance Market
Storms, high winds, fire hazards and equipment failure are many of the typical risks involved with the solar power industry. For the Dagda solar farm in rural Latvia, there's now another one: drones. The owner of the farm, Sunly, has insured Dagda…
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Harvesting More Than Crops: Why Farmers Are Investing in Solar Energy
As harvest season comes to a close, farmers are looking ahead to the next growing season and are exploring ways to improve their operations. With rising energy costs and the demands of modern agriculture, more farmers are turning to solar as a…
Beyond solar and wind: Israel promotes geothermal energy
The Energy Ministry is, for the first time, promoting the establishment of a facility for generating electricity from underground heat in the southern Golan Heights. This new technology may enable clean and continuous electricity generation…
Clean Energy, Wind and Solar Stocks Up After Democrats Sweep Midterms
Clean energy stocks climbed Wednesday, after the Democrats took control of both the U.S. Senate and House in a stunning midterm victory. The change in the balance of power for President Trump's final two years in office removes the threat of a…
Giant solar farm that can power up to 40,000 homes looks set to go ahead
A gigantic solar farm generating enough power for up to 40,000 homes looks set to go ahead. The Government has approved the huge Frodsham solar development, which is set to create up to 150 jobs in the construction phase. As a major project classed…
Bustling market in Dhaka shows shift to solar triggered by Middle East war
A cramped market in the heart of Dhaka has become an unlikely ground zero for Bangladesh's energy transition. Down narrow aisles crowded with shoppers and delivery workers, tiny storefronts are overflowing with rows of solar panels and batteries.
Oil prices decline as markets soar on midterm results - TT
A supporter of Wisconsin Gov.-elect David Crowley, a Democrat, sports an 'I voted' sticker at an election night event Nov. 3 in Milwaukee. (Nam Y. Huh/AP) Oil market is down on continued uncertainty about what the war with Iran will mean for global…
The Stock Market's Election Winners and Losers
🍃☀️Wind and solar power: Turbine makers Vestas and Nordex, offshore-wind company Orsted and solar-power names including First Solar, Hanwha Q-Cells, OCI Holdings and SMA Solar all jumped on hopes the Democratic wave will…
How auroras and solar storms can threaten power grids on Earth
Our research shows that a single space weather event called a substorm, during which energy is released tens of thousands of miles away from Earth, can affect the ground within minutes. The strength of the impact can vary from place to place…
African nations look to India for solar investment, technology and capacity building
Moyo said Zimbabwe aimed to raise the share of non-fossil fuel energy in its electricity generation to 49 per cent by 2030, from less than 20 per cent currently. He said the target would include hydropower, which already contributes around 35 per…
Clean Energy Surging Around the World in the Wake of Republican's Midterm Collapse
The repudiation of the Republican agenda on display in the US midterms is already having ripple effects throughout the world market. When it comes to green energy — which has suffered under the Trump White House's supply-chain restrictions…
Penguin poo is melting Arctic ice faster than normal
Scientists have found that penguin poo, called guano, can cause Antarctic snow to melt at a faster than normal rate. This happens because the poo provides nutrients that help a tiny type of single-cell plant, called snow algae, grow. Snow algae is…
ClearVue wins A$700,000 US Govt grant for solar glass tech
Perth-based smart building materials company ClearVue Technologies has secured a US$500,000 (A$712,450) grant from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate its push into the American market. In partnership with North American…
HK's EV battery recycling: a pragmatic step toward a greener future | Jon the Port | Jonathan Lamport
Picture an electric vehicle battery. It runs on the road, unassuming, enabling the commute day after day. Now imagine that same battery, after a long and faithful life, being transformed into black mass or repurposed into batteries storing energy…
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