While in many countries of the world, the share of renewable energy in the electricity mix is increasing and politicians are trying to promote the expansion of renewables in a variety of ways, other countries are taking an almost unnoticed and fatal step back reinvesting in coal, gas and nuclear programs instead.

Just a few years ago, South Africa was role model for an entire continent. Being the only African country among the G20's industrial powers they made great economic progress, including a renewable energy support programme launched in 2011. Since then, a lot of money has flowed into the country from foreign investors: almost 15 billion dollars have since gone into the development of renewable ...

The GE 2 MW-127 turbine has been selected for 2.9 Gigawatts of Projects in North America

GE Renewable Energy (NYSE: GE) today announced it secured commitments for 2.9 gigawatts (GW) of its variably rated 2.2 MW to 2.5 ...

The Washington Post reports that the U.S. President wants to introduce budget cuts for the development of renewable energies and energy efficiency into Congress. The federal states won't have it and protest in their own way.

We are getting used to a lot of things when it comes to the current U.S. President Donald Trump. Nevertheless, he still manages to irritate people - like in his recent 'State of the Union' speech. There he once again made his support for fossil energy production clear and spoke of "beautiful clean ...

In the U.S., offshore wind industry is still in its infancy. Although the first offshore wind farm has been up and running since the end of 2016, residents and government still seem to be not quite convinced of the technology. This makes a study recently published by an offshore wind developer all the more interesting. The study examines the possible effects of an offshore wind farm on the electricity grid during a severe snowstorm like the one at the beginning of the year.

Background

In August 2016, the ...

13 new offshore wind farms were completed, including the world’s first floating offshore wind farm, Hywind Scotland.

13 new offshore wind farms were completed, including the world’s first floating offshore wind farm, ...

ENGIE teams up with GE Renewable Energy to bring 360 MW of wind power to create a wind project with the highest concentration of turbines in the country.

GE Renewable Energy (NYSE: GE) today announced it has ...

The new energy storage system will supply on demand power to approximately 100,000 UK homes

GE and Arenko Group are delighted to announce a strategic alliance to build grid scale ...

As part of the strategic initiative to expand project development activities beyond the offgrid/hybrid segment into utility scale PV projects, the juwi board has decided to strengthen the project development expertise in the...

Renewable energy generators and industrial consumers connected via blockchain

The one megawatt hour of renewable power was traded as part of the pilot phase of the Enerchain ...

The contract has been awarded by Terna Rete Italia S.p.A., a company fully owned by Terna S.p.A., the Italian Transmission System Operator.

Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and ...

"Building new wind farms keeps American factory and construction workers busy"

The U.S. wind power industry closed 2017 strong, delivering 7,017 megawatts (MW) of new wind power capacity representing $11 billion in new ...