CleanTechnica

When will rising EV sales begin to cut into global demand for oil? It sure ain’t happening yet — as we discussed in an earlier article. Over the past few years, the increasing popularity of trucks and SUVs has canceled out the gas savings from EVs a…

The Green New Deal and multiple proposed laws and resolutions in the U.S. House (HRes.540, HR.3314, HR.3671) and Senate (SRes.632, S.987) call for the United States to move entirely from fossil fuels to clean, renewable electricity and/or all energy. A new…

Bloomberg New Energy Finance's head of solar analysis has revealed that new solar installations in 2018 are likely to have hit as high as 109 gigawatts (GW) and that growth in 2019 could see annual capacity additions increase to as much as 141

It’s clear that shifting to a renewable economy is viable, will have economic consequences for a subset of industries, and will be economically beneficial in multiple ways

Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven has announced that the sale of cars with gasoline or diesel engines will be banned in his country after 2030. Sweden now joins Denmark, India, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Israel on the list of nations which say they will…

Waymo and Magna have announced they will open a factory to manufacture self-driving cars somewhere in southeastern Michigan and expect the first cars to come off the assembly line this year.

The world's greenest and most sustainable companies have been highlighted in two parallel reports published this week by CDP, the non-profit global environmental disclosure platform, and Canadian media and research company Corporate Knights, with the common…

Surface melt in Greenland's southwest is causing the ice sheet to melt faster than previously thought

Google has signed a PPA with solar energy companies in Taiwan to supply its local data center with 10 megawatts of zero emissions electricity. This is Google's first renewable energy venture in Asia.

Spanish industrial energy supplier FORTIA ENERGÍA and Nordic renewable energy producer Statkraft announced on Monday a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) which will see Statkraft provide 3 terawatt-hours of renewable energy over ten years

The energy regulators for France and Spain announced last week that they had rejected the controversial Franco-Spanish South Transit East Pyrenees (STEP) natural gas pipeline, the first stage in the larger Midi-Catalonia (MidCat) gas pipeline, citing costs…

Renewable electricity is on track to overtake fossil fuels to become the dominant source of electricity generation in Britain by 2020 according to a new report from British power analysts EnAppSys

China's National Energy Administration announced over the weekend that the country installed a total of 44.1 gigawatts (GW) of solar in 2018, down 16% on 2017 but still up on mid-year expectations, bringing the country's cumulative total to 174.63

The latest S&P Global Market Intelligence data shows that a total of 49 gigawatts (GW) of new power generation capacity will be added in the United States in 2019, but will also see the retirement of nearly 6 GW of coal

Despite warnings from the latest IPCCC report on the emergency to transition to clean energy, new fossil fuel infrastructure projects threaten global climate safety

SunShare has crossed the 100 megawatt mark for community solar projects it has developed, providing it with the largest active residential subscriber base among all developers in the country. While many community solar developers focus on one or more…

In November, GM announced plans to stop producing most of its sedans and close down five North American factories, including a plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that produces the doomed Chevrolet Cruze. Some have speculated that Tesla might be interested in buying…

There's lots of EV hype coming out of this year's Detroit Auto Show. Tesla, however, is absent. Phil LeBeau of CNBC reports, "Tesla may not be at this year’s North American International Auto Show, but it’s easy to feel the influence of Elon…

After years of record sales and huge profits, legacy automakers are preparing for leaner times ahead. The US Big Three have killed off most of their sedans to concentrate on trucks and SUVs. GM is shuttering plants and laying off workers, and has pulled out…

The company is set to kick-off the LimePod program, starting with 500 EVs in Seattle.

A New Jersey indoor farm will use a solar microgrid to grow high-quality produce independent from the grid and natural seasons.

Researchers in the UK claim injecting high pressure air into the porous sandstone beneath the North Sea could store enough energy to meet all the country's energy needs during the winter. It might be the ideal way to store energy from offshore wind turbines.

Tesla is busy searching out ways to improve profitability whether by laying off workers, ending its referral program, or doing business with battery companies other than Panasonic. That's good news for long term investors as the company reaches maturity.

The third quarter of 2018 saw notable reductions in the growth and total capacity of new natural gas and utility-scale solar nationwide, but continued growth in distributed solar and wind power

The world can meet the Paris climate targets at about a quarter of the cost of current subsidies for fossil fuels, according to a new climate study funded by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation

Microgrids have a secret weapon in gas powered co-generation engines, and renewable biogas could provide the missing sustainability link

The United States' largest private solar and storage developer, 8minutenergy, announced last week that it has entered into a joint venture with J.P. Morgan Asset Management to support 8minutenergy's current 10.7 gigawatt (GW) pipeline of solar + storage…

Onshore wind installations in the United Kingdom during 2018 fell to their lowest levels since 2011, according to new figures from RenewableUK, plummeting by nearly 80% due in large part to the fact the UK Government has excluded onshore wind projects from…

The top 10 trends in the 2019 global solar market include a skyrocketing jump in projected 2019 installations of up to 103.8 gigawatts, according to a new outlook by market analyst Wood Mackenzie

If all goes according to plan, a blockchain solar trading project in Japan could blossom from 100 rooftops into 55,000 before the end of