Even solar energy’s biggest fans are underestimating it
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Can solar costs keep shrinking?
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Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid
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Painting one turbine blade black has shown promise for preventing bird collisions
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As California dam removal wraps up, river flows for first time in century
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Three Danish energy tech firms have opened the doors to the first ever green ammonia plant in the world, capable of producing 5,000 tons per year
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‘I have lost everything’: Bangladesh floods strand 1.24 million families. Bangladeshis claim Indian dam water release made it more severe.
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A dam collapses in eastern Sudan after heavy rainfall and local media report dozens missing
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Danish wind power giant Ørsted delays major US offshore project – news follows scrapping of two other Atlantic windfarms and axing of hundreds of jobs as costs surge
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Sweden has cut 80% of its net emissions since 1990 – while growing its economy twofold. How have they done it?
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Solar to meet half of global electricity demand growth in 2024 and 2025
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The underwater 'kites' generating electricity as they move beneath the waters of the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic
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Sun machines
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French power slumps as surging renewables push out atomic plants
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Danish researchers are exploring multiple uses for wind farms far out at sea, such as producing fresh seafood
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Sweden's nuclear power goal is challenging but attainable – government wants 2.5 gigawatts of new capacity online by 2035
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How a simple fix could double the size of the US electricity grid
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Surge in India’s renewables set to keep coal’s share below 50% in total installed capacity
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California solar installs down for 2024, but battery installs up
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Cryptocurrency mining as a novel virtual energy storage system in islanded and grid-connected microgrids
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New rules to overhaul US electric grids could boost wind and solar power
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A skeptic’s take on beaming power to Earth from space - Why we shouldn’t try to stick solar plants where the sun always shines
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Powering homes with PVT energy, Stirling engines, battery storage
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America’s wind power production drops for the first time in twenty-five years
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A golden age of renewables is beginning, and California is leading the way
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Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.
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Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon
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Networked geothermal is catching on in Minnesota
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US aiming to ‘crack the code’ on deploying geothermal energy at scale
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Norwegian court finds police acted unreasonably in fining activists who blocked government buildings
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Terraform Industries converts electricity and air into synthetic natural gas for the first time
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Why crypto could be green power's unlikely new best friend
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The true cost of offshore wind (and its crisis): what can we learn?
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Climate sustainability through a dynamic duo: Green hydrogen and crypto driving energy transition and decarbonization
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Joe Biden administration commits $6B to cut US emissions from high-carbon industries
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Germany’s solar panel industry, once a leader, is getting squeezed
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Industrial-scale thermal storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world's biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years
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How a solar revolution in farming is depleting world’s groundwater
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Hydropower can be an environmental and human disaster – but do the risks have to be so big?
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Solar comprises over half of new energy production, reaching a renewable energy milestone not seen since WWII
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Norway and the Sámi people end a dispute over Europe's largest onshore wind farm – deal includes a future-oriented solution that safeguards reindeer farming rights
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Rooftop solar drives out coal, wind and grid-scale solar in Australia
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Why isn’t solar scaling in Africa?
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This is why we don’t recycle wind turbine blades
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The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US and cost over $1 billion
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Insect populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities
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Sámi rights activists in Norway charged over protests against wind farm affecting reindeer herding
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A new kind of climate denial has taken over on YouTube
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Vertical panels let solar and farming coexist
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UK and Denmark launch Viking Link underwater cable project – potential to transport enough electricity to power up to 2.5 million UK homes
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