Renewable Energy
Shell backs “Europe’s largest storage project” with offtake agreement
Shell Energy Europe will provide financial security for the Minety power storage project, declared to be Europe’s largest battery storage project, via an offtake agreement.
Renewable Energy
ENGIE wins additional funding for Europe’s largest hydrogen vehicles project
ENGIE and partners have secured additional funding to implement the Zero Emission Valley Project.
Renewable Energy
Greece opens second renewable energy auction
Greece’s energy regulator, RAE, has announced the country’s second renewable energy auction for wind and solar power.
Renewable Energy
UMass announces technology that generates power from thin air
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a device that uses a natural protein to create electricity from moisture.
Renewable Energy
Warren’s $3 trillion climate change plan
White House candidate, Senator Elizabeth Warren has put forward what is said to be "one of the most aggressive, detailed and wide-ranging plans for combating climate change," according to the MIT Technology Review.
Renewable Energy
Virginia passes Clean Economy Act – sets renewables, storage targets
The Virginia state legislature narrowly passed the Virginia Clean Economy Act, passing into law a requirement that all energy produced in the state be renewable by 2050.
Renewable Energy
World’s richest man commits $10bn to fight climate change
Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, has committed $10 billion to accelerate global efforts to combat climate change.
Renewable Energy
Vestas debuts EnVentus turbine in Sweden
Vestas has secured a 39 MW order and a 30-year service contract from long-term customer Stena Renewables AB for the Riskebo wind energy project in the Hedemora Municipality in Sweden.
Renewable Energy
Rio Tinto to build its first solar at $2.6 billion project
Rio Tinto has announced plans to build its first solar photovoltaic plant in Western Australia.
Renewable Energy
15% of electricity from wind – too little to deliver EU’s...
Onshore wind generation grew by 11.8 GW compared to offshore wind which grew 3.6 GW, bringing Europe's total wind capacity at the start of the decade to 205GW of wind energy - 15% of all electricity consumption in Europe last year.
