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For those doubting that the global economy can decarbonize fast enough to avert catastrophic warming, take a look over at the United States. The nation’s massive offshore wind resources are finally in the pipeline, and its land-based…

A striking and unprecedented image of a solar eruption has been captured by NASA and the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft.It's the largest solar prominence ever observed in a single image together with the full disc of the…

Scientists in Australia have developed an optimisation framework for building-integrated photovoltaics that allows the selection of design variables according to user preferences. Their model considers PV-related features such as tilt…

With the City of Wolverhampton, the Environment Agency plans to replace a landfill with a solar farm that will generate electricity to power the New Cross Hospital. The site is expected to be operational by the summer of 2022,…

Francesco La Camera, the director general of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), believes that renewable energy is the only way we can effectively transform today’s energy system to reach climate goals. Renewables build…

With senators having called for plantation-wide solar powered pumping projects, funded by public money, the country’s National Irrigation Administration has agreed and said it wants to embrace floating solar facilities too. March 7, 2022…

The scenes in Mullumbimby and more than a dozen surrounding towns and villages in northern NSW are devastating. In Mullum, nearly every house in every street has almost its entire contents piled on to the roadside – furniture, personal…

Construction of an innovative solar to green hydrogen microgrid in the Daintree Rainforest is set to commence with the Federal Government signing off on a multi-million-dollar deal to bring renewable power to communities in the World…

Ecoppia, a robotic cleaning solutions provider for photovoltaic solar, announced another significant milestone with a first-ever hybrid solar project of 400MW with the India-based Azure Power. This large-scale project, consisting of two…

Mark Z. Jacobson is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and director of its Atmosphere/Energy Program. He is also a frequent contributor to CleanTechnica. He and his team have published several research…