Photo credit: WindEurope. By Anders Lorenzen Analysis by WindEurope, Europe’s wind power industry group, reveals a record-breaking year for European wind power when it comes to investments in the industry as well as installing new capacity. The report revealed a significant comeback. The wind sector having struggled in 2022 with soaring inflation, interest rates and the volatile energy markets as […]
By Anders Lorenzen The Italian Serie A football team Udinese Calcio have announced a significant sustainability move and teamed up with local utility Bluenergy Group to cover the roof of the club’s stadium with solar panels. The installation is already in progress and will comprise more than 2,400 panels and is estimated to produce a daily average of 3,000 kilowatt […]
By Anders Lorenzen Even though Germany significantly ramped up its coal consumption in the wake of the decommissioning of its nuclear power plants, Turkey is on track to surpass Europe’s economic powerhouse as the continent’s biggest coal consumer. Analysis from the green think tank, Ember shows high inflation rates are driven by the surge in coal-fired electricity as it is […]
By Anders Lorenzen One of the world’s largest tech companies, Google (owned by Alphabet), has often come under criticism, partly for its commitment to tackling climate change and its overall sustainability goals, but also for double standards. Its platform hosts climate-denying content, and the company seems unable to crack down on it. But the latest initiative by Google will be […]
A coal power plant at Dadri in Gautam Budh Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh. Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. Photo credit: Mayank Makhija / Alamy. By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in […]
By Anders Lorenzen If you ask the world’s key players in the global wind power industry, 2023 was a year to forget. While the industry sentiment is that 2024 will be a more positive year, the impacts of 2023 are starting to be felt. The world’s three biggest companies operating in the sector; Siemens Energy, Orsted and Vestas this week […]
By Anders Lorenzen An announcement by US President Joe Biden to pause the approvals for pending and future applications to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from new projects has been warmly welcomed by climate activists and could delay decisions on new plants until after the US Elections taking place on the 5th of November 2024. During that pause, the Department […]
H2 Green Steel. By Anders Lorenzen H2 Green Steel, the Swedish company behind a project to construct the first large-scale green steel plant in the world, has received a significant financial boost. H2 Green Steel has raised €4.75 billion worth of funding for the flagship plant, which will be located in Boden, a town in northern Sweden. The company was […]
The Breidablikk oil field. Photo credit: Elisabeth Sahl – Jonny Engelsvoll / Equinor. By Anders Lorenzen Environmentalists are celebrating after a court ruling has found that three new offshore oil and gas fields granted by the Norwegian government were found invalid as their environmental impact was not sufficiently assessed. It is believed that this ruling could set a precedent for […]
By Bridgett Ennis Supplemental income from 50 wind turbines helps a fourth-generation family ranch stay viable. The tall grass prairie of the Flint Hills provides food for cattle and on the Ferrell Ranch, wind to power 50 turbines. The 7,000-acre ranch in Beaumont, Kansas, was started by Pete Ferrell’s great-grandfather in 1888. But ranching is hard work, and success is […]