CLOSED CAPTIONS IN ENGLISH AVAILABLEESA astronaut Alexander Gerst recorded a message in German to his future grandchildren from the International Space Stati...

Domestic production covered 85 percent of Finland’s electricity consumption, with 54 percent generated from renewable energy sources.

The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries.

Ab 2024 sollen neue Heizungen zu 65 Prozent mit Erneuerbaren Energien betrieben werden. Eine Option ist es, "grünen" Wasserstoff zu nutzen statt Gas. In der Praxis gibt es dabei laut Fachleuten...

High spot electricity prices, particularly in Europe, are changing the utility wind and solar investment narrative as potential payback periods of under a

Nature Communications - The technical and economic viability of renewable energy (RE) based energy system is understudied. Here the authors utilized a LUT Energy System Transition Model to indicate...

Scientific Reports - Economic estimation of Bitcoin mining’s climate damages demonstrates closer resemblance to digital crude than digital gold

Children's toy company builds wind turbine made entirely of LEGO bricks to celebrate 

Belgian grid operator Elia announced that solar and wind generation provided enough electricity to cover the country’s entire electricity demand for the first time this Monday.

Staatsgeld gegen Klimaschutz: Frankreich will die Air France mit Milliarden retten, wenn das Unternehmen Inlandsflüge streicht. In Deutschland werden Stimmen lauter, mit der Lufthansa ähnlich zu...

The new measure should come into force on January 1. It is part of the Tax Plan 2023 package and still needs final parliamentary approval.

Contract price is nearly 6% lower than previous auction in 2019, which could ease pressure on energy bills

The decline of “baseload” has been predicted for many years, now South Australia is showing a grid can operate without it.

Der Straßengüterverkehr wird künftig von Batterien angetrieben. 2035 könnten E‑Trucks Standard bei Neuzulassungen sein – mit großem Akku, nicht per Oberleitung.

CEA's Energy Storage System (ESS) Supplier Market Intelligence Program (SMIP) offers a biannual market report about the leading global lithium-ion battery cell manufacturers and energy storage system...

New short study by the Energy Watch Group (EWG) finds: Electricity would already be cheaper today with a full supply of 100% renewables. In the coalition

Der Windanlagenbauer Vestas hat angekündigt, 590 Arbeitsplätze in der Rotorblattproduktion zu streichen. Allein in Lauchhammer (Brandenburg)

The benefits of AgriPV systems have been discussed for a long time. Against the background of the current energy discussions, there is now a surprisingly

Es gibt keine Ausreden mehr: Der rasche Umstieg auf die Komplettversorgung mit erneuerbaren Energien in allen Sektoren ist klimapolitisch notwendig,

Utility-scale PV LCOE in Europe with 7% nominal WACC ranges from 24 €/MWh in Malaga to 42 €/MWh in Helsinki in 2019 and will be 9-15 €/MWh by 2050, making PV clearly the cheapest form of electricity...

24 Stunden auf der Linie, kein Zwischenladen, 550,8 Kilometer Reichweite – das ist die beeindruckende Bilanz einer MAN eBus-Fahrt, die am 18. Mai in München unter realen Bedingungen über die Bühne...

Glut of EV batteries has not yet materialized but automotive industry initiatives to recycle the lithium-ion cells bundled in EV batteries are slow to go mainstream in Europe and the U.S.

Credit Suisse says the Inflation Reduction Act will have such a tremendous impact on renewable energy that the US may see the levelized cost of

Utility-scale PV LCOE in Europe with 7% nominal WACC ranges from 24 €/MWh in Malaga to 42 €/MWh in Helsinki in 2019 and will be 9-15 €/MWh by 2050, making PV clearly the cheapest form of electricity...

A report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory highlights core benchmarks for PV prices, deployment, imports and more.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, using a new antireflection coating, have successfully increased the efficiency of

Communications Earth & Environment - Installing heat pumps instead of traditional gas boilers for heating purposes could lead to a drastic reduction in the consumption of natural gas in...

Mit Photovoltaikanlagen können Landwirte ihre Flächen zweifach nutzen: als Agrarland und zur Stromproduktion. Bislang mussten interessierte Bauern jedoch gegen teils heftige Widerstände kämpfen. Das...

Offshore wind farms host more soil animals per square meter than the North Sea floor, discovered Leiden researchers. After 25 years, hundred times more

The key is to deploy, deploy, deploy existing clean, renewable, safe technologies as fast as possible.

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry.

Wir könnten von heute auf morgen auf sämtliche Energielieferungen aus Russland verzichten, sagt die Energieökonomin Claudia Kemfert und mahnt: solange wir

A 300MWh system has connected to the grid in Jiangsu while a compressed air storage startup has raised nearly US$50 million in funding round.

Bereits vor einiger Zeit hat die Designwork Group/Futuricum den E-LKW an DPD Schweiz ausgeliefert- nun hat man amtlich, was möglich ist: fast 1100 km

Die Stecker-Solaranlagen boomen in der Energiekrise noch stärker. Inzwischen gibt es Lieferprobleme, und auch die vorgeschriebene Installation durch eine

Fast 90 Prozent Kostensenkung binnen zehn Jahren. Auch weitere fossilfreie Lösungen viel billiger. MCC-geführte Studie zum Effekt von Technik- und Produktinnovation.

More than 200 health journals have called on governments to take emergency action to tackle the “catastrophic harm to health” from climate change. A joint

Der Entwurf des neuen Klimaschutzgesetzes sieht vor, dass bei gewerblichen und industriellen Gebäuden, die Verpflichtung ab Mitte 2022 greifen soll. Der

CSIRO says nuclear is too slow, too expensive, and its best prospects for a significant share of global generation are in weak climate targets.

CSIRO says a grid dominated by wind and solar will only require one fifth or one third of the storage needs commonly suggested.

NIF fusion power still consumes 150 times more energy than it creates. We are decades away from commercial fusion power plants.

South Australia posts a remarkable and world-first run of net 100 per cent wind and solar for more than 10 days, or 249 hours.

Hurrikan Ida zieht über Atomanlage hinweg und löst kritischen Fehler aus. Wie simplyinfo.org berichtet, werden aus dem Kernkraftwerk Waterford in

Der dritte Teil des Weltklimaberichts wird erst in einem halben Jahr veröffentlicht. Die Gruppe "Scientist Rebellion" hat nun einen Entwurf geleakt - was die Wissenschaftsaktivisten fordern, erklären...

The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) says in a new report that PV module lifetime extensions should be prioritized over closed-loop recycling to reduce demand for new materials.

In der ersten Mai-Woche trugen die in Deutschland installierten Photovoltaik-Anlagen am stärksten zur Nettostromerzeugung bei. Insgesamt speisten sie

Agri-Photovoltaik kann die Folgen von Dürreperioden auf die Produktion pflanzlicher Nahrungsmittel abschwächen: Die Beschattung, die bei ausreichend

Brazilian and US researchers have evaluated the water evaporation rate of a floating PV system on a Brazilian reservoir. They said that the 130 kW installation reduced evaporation by 60%, and claimed...

Die Bundesregierung hat einen Streit um das Verbrenner-Aus angezettelt - und damit auf europäischer Bühne viel Schaden angerichtet. Deutschland steht da als ein Land, auf das kein Verlass ist, meint...

NREL explores the complexities of the various technology paths to 100% emission-free electricity in the United States, which include 540 GWac to 1 TWac of solar power being installed by 2035.

Volkswagen has launched its battery gigafactory development in Germany and plans to dedicate capacity to grid-scale energy storage in future.

The IEA’s Global Methane Tracker shows emissions from oil, gas and coal are on the rise again, underscoring need for greater transparency, stronger

Modhera is India’s first fully solar powered town, demonstrating that battery storage can enable 24/7 clean energy.

The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has updated its long-term battery energy storage system (BESS) costs through to 2050.

Low participation rates for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech of just 12% to 43% are needed to provide short-term grid storage demand throughout the world by as early as 2030, according to a group of Dutch...

According to a new study by Finland's LUT University, solar PV consumes between 2% and 15% of the water that coal and nuclear power plants use to produce just 1 MWh of output; for wind, this percen...

Hourly operation of the European energy system in the moderate scenario in 2050 for the spring week (left) of best resource availability and the winter week (right) with the least resources.

The world’s nuclear power plants are on the frontline of climate change – and not in a good way.

Report suggests dropping fossil fuels and nuclear and going 100 pct renewables and storage would save the UK £120 billion by 2050.

Solar module prices have never fallen so sharply in such a short period of time. One reason for this is the "PV module glut" in warehouses in Europe, according to pvXchange’s Martin Schachinger.