A small hydroelectric station on the edge of a forest in northern Norway looks more like an elegant hotel or luxurious home. With this unusually handsome ...
Costa Rica ran on 100% renewables for 2 straight months
Costa Rica just finished another renewable energy run: Between June and August, the country was powered solely by clean energy sources for 76 straight ...
Startup plans to cut UAE’s energy consumption by 30%
Taka solutions, a Dubai-based technology startup, uses engineering and cloud-based analytics to optimize energy consumption in buildings. With that, the ...
New tool can calculate output by renewables at any place
Researches from the Imperial College London and ETH Zürich have developed an interactive web tool to calculate the output by renewable energy sources ...
The price of cutting carbon: More natural gas
While countries aim to cut their carbon emissions and shift towards green energy, critical questions arise: Can the planet be powered successfully by ...
Guerilla-Photovoltaik: Solarstrom aus der Steckdose
Kleine Solaranlagen für die Steckdose im eigenen Zuhause gibt es schon lange – bereits vor einigen Jahren hat man ihnen zugetraut, die Energiewende ...
US: Quiet but big changes in the energy sector
Almost unnoticed by the public, the United States has shifted away from dirty power sources and more toward cleaner fuels such as wind and solar: While ...
The rise of renewables in Portugal
Portgual has proved that a country can run on renewable energy alone, at least in terms of electricity: For 107 hours in May 2016, the Iberian country was ...
Energie aus U-Bahn-Abwässern
Schon lange werden Abwässer in Tunneln zur Wärmegewinnung genutzt. Ein Doktorand hat in Glasgow nun versucht herauszufinden, ob sich das Prinzip auch auf ...
New partnership aims to improve building energy efficiency
The vast amount of energy consumed by buildings is one of the reasons why cities account for nearly 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. A new ...
