By Geert De Clercq NICE, France (Reuters) – A major pilot project by Europe’s largest power network operator to integrate power from rooftop solar panels into the grid has shown that battery storage of renewable energy is not yet economically viable in Europe. The conclusion is a sobering one for proponents of sun and wind energy because as more of it comes on tap, better storage will be needed to
The one-seater plane is covered with 17,000 solar cells. During the day, the panels store solar energy to stored lithium polymer batteries that keep the plane’s motor running after the sun sets. The plane reaches a maximum speed of 100 miles per hour, which is why it took Borschberg five days to travel from Japan to Hawaii instead of the 10 hours it would take on 560mph fuel-powered plane.
By Neil Marks Bridgetown, BARBADOS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday offered help to resolve a long-running border spat between Venezuela and its South American neighbor Guyana that heated up after oil was found in the disputed area in May. Exxon Mobil Corp said it discovered oil off Guyana’s coast, spurring complaints from Caracas that Guyana is unfairly exploiting a disputed territory that must be negotiated through a
By Tommy Wilkes and Aman Shah NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s $100 billion push into solar energy over the next decade will be driven by foreign players as uncompetitive local manufacturers fall by the wayside, no longer protected by government restrictions on the sector. The money pouring into India’s solar industry is likely to be soaked up by foreign-organized projects such as one run by China’s Trina Solar – not
Solar Sister has women in rural Africa sell clean energy solutions, which brings light to their communities and turns them into entrepreneurs in the process.
The German government decided on Thursday to order the shutdown of several coal-fired plants in order to reach its ambitious climate goals by 2020, government sources told Reuters. Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leaders of her two junior coalition parties also settled a dispute over high-voltage power lines which are planned to carry green energy from the breezy north to the industrial south, the sources said. Energy minister Sigmar Gabriel
Missouri utility regulators on Wednesday denied a company’s request to construct a high-voltage power line in Missouri that was planned for a multistate wind energy project. Three of the five members of …
Hydroelectric dams may cause 70 percent of wildlife in the nearby area to go extinct, according to a study Wednesday that raises new concern about what is often touted as a green energy source. The study in the journal PLOS ONE focused on how animals in the tropical rainforest were coping as a result of the Balbina Dam in the central Amazon, in Brazil. “We predicted an overall local extinction
Construction has begun on a wind farm in Bingham that is anticipated to be the state’s largest wind energy project. SunEdison announced Wednesday it had secured $360 million in financing for the wind farm …
The solar panel design will make it cheaper to produce hydrogen, but a simple version won’t be available for average citizens for at least 10 years, scientists said. Splitting water molecules to create hydrogen allows the sun’s energy to be more easily stored to generate electricity or power clean cars. The discovery has major implications for climate change, as improved solar energy would reduce fossil fuel dependence.