Feb. 9, 2026 -IAbout 2,000 feet beneath the ocean’s surface, in the dark stillness off the coast of California, a concrete sphere the size of a small house will soon have its moment. Its walls must resist pressures 77 times greater than what we feel at sea level. Yet it has no living inhabitants. Its cargo is not oil or gas. It’s electricity (sort of).

This is StEnSea — Stored Energy in the Sea — a bold new venture that seeks to solve one of the greatest challenges of the clean energy age: how to store renewable energy when the wind stops blowing and the sun disappears.

Feb 2, 2026 -With auto revenue down 10% for the year and plans to scrap Model S/X production for robots, Tesla is leaning hard into energy generation and storage (where revenue grew 27% last year). The company deployed 46.7 GWh of storage in 2025, more than 10X the rate just four years before.

Enter: a new, proprietary rooftop solar panel. The design uses a rail-less mounting system to cut installation time and parts, leveraging data from 500K prior solar installs to fix what contractors hate most about rooftop solar.

Jan. 22, 2026 -The Solar Energy Industries Association POV: Energy storage has largely escaped the political backlash that’s plagued wind and standalone solar.

So? SEIA is fighting for fair valuation in capacity markets and flexible interconnection tariffs, seeking to ensure batteries are compensated for the full range of grid services they provide (like peak smoothing) rather than just being treated as solar accessories.

Jan. 21, 2026 -Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels in the European Union’s power generation last year, a report has found, in a “major tipping point” for clean energy.

Turbines spinning in the wind and photovoltaic panels lit up by the sun generated 30% of the EU’s electricity in 2025, according to an annual review. Power plants burning coal, oil and gas generated 29%.

Jan. 21, 2026 - It’s been nearly five years now since Portugal decided to shut down its last coal plant after 30 years in service. The decision came eight years sooner than planned and showed that the country is aiming high as part of its transition to cleaner energy sources.

Back in 2023, Portugal made headlines by running on renewables for six straight days. At the time, it felt like reaching a finish line. Looking back from 2026, it looks more like a starting gun.

Jan. 19, 2026 -A US bankruptcy court approved Amazon's $83M bid to acquire the Sunstone project from bankrupt developer Pine Gate Renewables, handing the tech giant a shovel-ready site with 1.2 GW of solar and battery storage.

The context: The purchase gives Amazon a dedicated power source in Oregon, a region where it’s currently facing severe capacity shortages and is actively suing local utilities for failing to meet its energy needs.

Jan. 14, 2026 -Illinois’ aggressive state mandates have propelled it to fourth in the nation for new solar capacity, adding over 815 MW in the first three quarters of 2025.

The surge is drawing young workers into training programs, where installers are eager to hire them to meet the demand for an estimated 15 GW of new solar capacity over the next half-decade.

While we’re here: Workforce issues are big. “We don’t have enough labor pools in this country for everything that’s coming…Electricians are king right now,” Oklo CEO Jacob DeWitte told Bloomberg yesterday, noting a shortage of skilled workers could hamper its nuclear infrastructure buildout.

Jan. 14, 2026 -When the 47th solar panel exploded, Henrik Eskilsson began to fear he’d signed on with a madman.

In his SUV, he and Anders Olsson were accelerating across Sweden’s Lunda Airfield, towing a trailer fitted with a steel mast that suspended the panel. As they gained speed, the panel did something unusual: it floated, catching the wind like a hang glider while staying anchored to the mast. The speedometer crept toward 100 kilometers per hour. Behind them, the device began vibrating. Suddenly, it snapped free, tumbled through the air and shattered on the runway.

Jan. 13, 2026, -Last year China installed more than half of all wind and solar added globally. In May alone, it added enough renewable energy to power Poland, installing solar panels at a rate of roughly 100 every second.

The massive buildout is happening across the country, from crowded eastern cities increasingly topped by rooftop solar panels to remote western deserts where colossal wind farms sprawl across the landscape.

Jan. 13, 2026 -When an oil-fired generator tripped on Kaua’i in 2021, the grid suffered dangerous frequency oscillations because the island’s solar + storage plants used older “grid-following” inverters.

After upgrading to grid-forming controls—which provide “synthetic inertia” to hold frequency and voltage constant—at solar + storage plants, a similar generator trip in 2023 caused zero instability.

Jan. 12, 2026 -Trump’s easy-peasy takeover of the Venezuelan oil industry is already hitting speed bumps, to the surprise of exactly no-one, except maybe Trump himself. The near-term obstacles include fast-moving security concerns as well as structural issues. However, the real problem is the long-term persistence of the global decarbonization movement, and a fresh wave of perovskite solar cell innovation is adding even more fuel to the fire.

If you are among those anticipating that perovskite solar cells are finally about to hit the utility-scale market, run right out and buy yourself a cigar. Perovskites are relatively inexpensive, synthetic versions of a naturally occurring mineral. They are fragile and finicky as standalone solar materials, but when layered onto conventional silicon solar cells, they produce a significant win-win. The tandem perovskite-silicon combo melds the durability of silicon with a low-cost solar conversion efficiency boost from perovskite.

Jan. 8, 2026 -On a blustery November day in 2025, a Cessna turboprop fought its way through the skies over Pennsylvania. The conditions were miserable for flying: at an altitude of 5,000 meters, crosswinds whipped at 70 knots, nearly matching the speed of the small aircraft itself.

But for the engineers inside, the turbulence was a feature, not a bug. They were there to prove that a sensitive optical system could lock onto a target on the ground and hold it steady, even while being rattled by gale-force winds.

Jan. 7, 2026 -Mapping the next decade: GlobalData predicts installed solar capacity will surge from 231 GW to 738 GW and onshore wind from 156 GW to 269 GW, fueled by $442B in expected investment through 2030—even as the federal focus shifts toward “energy security” and firm generation.

GlobalData’s latest report, “United States (US) Power Market Outlook to 2035: Market Trends, Regulations, and Competitive Landscape,” reveals that renewable power capacity growth in the US is supported by state renewable portfolio standards and clean electricity standards, long-term utility integrated resource plans, and sustained corporate power purchase agreement activity from technology, manufacturing, and data center operators.

Jan 6, 2026 -The past 10 years have been the hottest on record, a dramatic increase that has raised ocean temperatures and elevations, melted glaciers, and increased damage from natural disasters including hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornados—effects that threaten wildlife species and human health.

Scientists are clear that reigning in the greenhouse gasses that are warming the planet require major shifts to renewable energies. Fortunately, the world is increasingly adopting these technologies. In 2025, coal dropped below renewables like solar and wind as the primary source of global electricity.

Still, myths about renewable energy are commonplace, says Andy Fitch, an attorney at Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Lawwho coauthored a report rebutting dozens of misconceptions.

Jan. 1, 2026 -The next decade will be powered by “any-and-all” forms of energy. Modern energy systems must integrate renewables for cost and speed, battery storage for flexibility, nuclear for reliability and natural gas for stability. Scaling these technologies in tandem is the only way to meet exponential load growth—but it will require major investment.

Renewable energy is a fixture of the global energy landscape. Following a decade of technological advancements and falling prices, renewables are now the cheapest, fastest and most scalable form of bulk electricity generation in nearly every major market.

Dec. 30, 2025 -Ismet Booley, a dentist in Cape Town, had a serious problem a few years ago. Patients showed up for appointments, only to find the power had gone out.

No power meant no X-rays, no fillings, no root canals. “I just couldn’t work,” Dr. Booley said.

South Africans like Dr. Booley have found a remedy for power cuts that have plagued people in the developing world for years. Thanks to swiftly falling prices of Chinese made solar panels and batteries, they now draw their power from the sun.

Dec. 28, 2025 -In the face of escalating climate change effects and global food security concerns, innovative solutions in agriculture are more critical than ever. Agrivoltaics, which integrates solar energy generation into arable land, provides a dual approach to harnessing renewable energy while simultaneously cultivating crops. This report outlines a comprehensive agrivoltaic project tailored for a region characterized by its humid tropical climate and rich biodiversity.

Dec. 22, 2025 -On the Italian island of Sardinia, a strange, gleaming bubble rises from a patch of flat land. It’s held upright not by steel or concrete but by a small imbalance in pressure. Inside it sits 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. But this time, the greenhouse gas is not the by-product of some polluting activity. Rather than a climate crime waiting to happen, this humble-looking dome is doing a very important job.

The structure belongs to a new kind of power plant, built by the Milan-based firm Energy Dome. Its purpose is deceptively simple: to hold on to electricity when there is too much of it, and give it back when there is not enough and the grid needs it most. In a world racing to replace coal and gas with wind and sunlight, that modest trick has become one of the hardest problems in energy science.

Dec. 20, 2025 -In the final weeks of Gov. Phil Murphy’s tenure, New Jersey climate advocates are trying to do something governors rarely manage on their way out the door: bind their successors to an ambitious climate promise.

A sweeping measure, known as the New Jersey Clean Energy Act of 2024, would write into law Murphy’s goal of running the state on 100 percent clean electricity by 2035, a target he first set by executive order in 2023.

Dec. 19, 2025 -The one-acre, 120-kilowatt array is the first real-world installation of RUTE’s patented, cable-stayed solar tracker designed specifically to coexist with grazing cattle. RUTE supplies the hardware and is also acting as the developer for its first regional cattle-plus-solar demonstrations.

What makes the setup different is the clearance. The tracker system provides about 10 feet of headroom, with panel heights reaching up to 16 feet across the array. That gives cattle full access to the pasture underneath while allowing ranchers to keep managing the land as usual. The project is interconnected to Pacific Power’s grid in Jackson County, Oregon.

Dec. 18, 2025 -The Bureau of Land Management approved key amendments (like road rerouting) for the $2.3B, 1.4 GW Libra solar + storage project in Nevada, marking the first time the agency advanced any utility-scale solar since the summer, when Sec. Doug Burgum imposed "elevated reviews" that paralyzed development.

The move ends a nervous standoff for the industry, which saw the record-breaking 6.2 GW Esmeralda 7 project axed in October. Developers are hoping this signals a return to business as usual for the 500+ projects currently at risk of political obstruction.

Dec. 17, 2025 -The multi-year deal aims to build a 1 GW dispatchable resource—roughly the size of a nuclear reactor—by 2035 by aggregating residential batteries to feed ERCOT during peak demand.

Reliant (NRG’s retail electric provider) customers with Sunrun systems can enroll to receive compensation for sharing their stored solar energy, effectively stabilizing the state's grid while lowering their own bills.

Dec. 16, 2025 -National Grid NY President Sally Librera revealed that large-load requests for the next 5 years have spiked to 10 GW, driven by a rush of data centers and chipmakers looking to set up shop in the state.

With parts of New York’s grid nearing a century old, the utility warns that modernizing infrastructure to meet this demand is the primary driver behind the rising bills frustrating ratepayers today.

Dec. 14, 2025 -Tim Teichert and Jason Thornock want the sun to help them survive as ranchers in Cokeville, Wyoming. On an overcast May day, the two drove around the one-restaurant town, lamenting high electricity prices and restrictive Wyoming laws that they say have thrown an unnecessary burden onto their broad shoulders.

“I pay $90,000 in an electric bill,” Teichert said as he and Thornock made their way through fields of cattle, alfalfa and hay. “Jason’s about $150,000. If Jason had that $150,000 back, his kids could all come back to Cokeville, and work and live here, and you’d be able to raise kids here in Cokeville.”

Dec. 14, 2025 -ERCOT reported that battery storage (>5.2 GW) and solar (>4.5 GW) dominated the 11 GW of new additions this year, leaving natural gas trailing behind despite a $10B state fund designed to boost fossil fuel plants.

Texas installed nearly 2X as much solar as California in the first 9 months of the year, though ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas warns this reliance on intermittent power leaves the grid exposed during winter freezes when the sun is down and demand spikes.

Dec. 12, 2025 -The Bureau of Land Management Idaho State Office has issued decisions to offer 18 parcels for competitive geothermal lease in southern Idaho, subject to appropriate stipulations to protect natural resource values. These parcels encompass approximately 11,940 acres in Cassia County; nearly 7,655 acres in Blaine and Camas counties; and about 51,048 acres in Owyhee County. These parcels will be offered during a competitive geothermal lease sale on Dec. 16, 2025. For information on the sale, please visit the BLM Idaho Geothermal Energy website.

The environmental assessments evaluated potential impacts from geothermal leasing and included opportunities for public input. For more information, including the decision records and associated documents, please visit the BLM National NEPA Register for the Burley and Shoshone field offices lease parcels and the Bruneau Field Office lease parcels, or contact the Idaho State Office at 208-373-4000.

Dec. 9, 2025 -The Trump administration has spent much of the year dismantling federal climate policy and attacking the clean power industry. As a result, the growth of renewable energy like wind and solar power has slowed across the United States.

Installations of solar, wind and batteries grew this year, but at the slowest rate in more than a decade. Solar installations rose just about 10 percent, and wind installations have essentially stagnated. Some $28 billion in clean energy projects have been delayed or canceled this year.

Dec. 10, 2025 -Instead of building expensive new receivers on the ground, Overview plans to aim the lasers directly at existing solar farms at night—because solar cells convert near-infrared light at 50% efficiency (vs. 20% for sunlight). If it works, it would effectively turn intermittent solar panels into 24/7 firm generation.

The business modelrelies on “geographic untethering” where satellites can chase peak demand around the globe—beaming power to Europe during its evening peak, then switching the laser to California as the sun sets there. Overview is aiming for a cost of $60–100/MWh by 2035.

Dec. 9, 2025 - When launching Tesla’s solar roof tiles nearly a decade ago, Elon Musk said they would cost less than a regular roof, last twice as long and slash or even eliminate homeowners’ utility bills. “Why would you get anything else?” Musk asked Tesla shareholders in 2016.

We’re not there yet. Conventional roofs still cost less, and most people who want solar pick panels over photovoltaics integrated into their roofs. But evolving economics and new, cheaper solar shingles hitting the market may change the equation.

Dec. 5, 2025 - Lithium-ion batteries, which power everything from cellphones to cars, are increasingly saving electric grids around the world.

Batteries as large as shipping containers are being connected to power lines and installed beside solar panels and wind turbines. They soak up power when it’s plentiful and cheap and release it when electricity use soars, helping reduce the need for expensive power plants and lines.

Dec. 4, 2025 -The drivers: Battery storage had a breakout quarter, installing a record 4.7 GW, while solar continued to do the heavy lifting (6 GW), pushing total YTD installations to nearly 31 GW—already outpacing 2024.

The yellow flag: Despite the construction boom, the business side is cooling off. New offtake deals are down 38% this year, and the future project pipeline barely budged (+1%) last quarter as developers hit the brakes amidst regulatory uncertainty.

Dec. 1, 2025 -The PSC approved the acquisitions of the Saratoga and Ursa solar sites and the Badger Hollow and Whitetail wind farms, a portfolio expected to power 150K+ homes when fully online in 2027–2028.

We Energies will take an 80% stake in each project, with Wisconsin Public Service and Madison Gas & Electric holding 10% each—part of a strategy to shift capital into new resources while retiring inefficient fossil plants.

Nov. 30, 2025 -Following a successful pilot law in Utah, legislators in New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland are pushing to exempt small "balcony solar" setups from the bureaucratic nightmare of utility interconnection agreements.

Already massive in Germany—where 1M+ homes use them—these portable panels plug directly into a standard wall socket to power appliances, bypassing the need for professional installation or homeownership.

Nov. 30, 2025 -Sodium is far cheaper and easier to source—sodium carbonate averaged $100–500/ton from 2020–24, while lithium carbonate swung between $6–83K, giving SIBs a built-in cost advantage that doesn’t depend on commodity booms.

SIBs also avoid copper, use cheaper cathodes like manganese and iron, and perform reliably across temperature extremes, making them strong candidates for grid-scale storage as production ramps from ~70 GWh today toward 400 GWh by 2030.

Nov. 24, 2025 -In California, the sun is officially eating fossil fuels for lunch—and now, thanks to batteries, it’s on the menu for dinner too. New EIA data shows that, while the state’s total electricity generation has grown 8% since 2020, natural gas burn has plummeted 18%, largely because utility-scale solar output has nearly doubled in the same timeframe.

Nov. 23, 2025 -Brookfield Renewable just signed a 20-year contract to feed Microsoft’s data centers from a hydro plant in the PJM grid—a move that follows a similar, record-breaking $3B pact with Google.

The cash injection comes just in time: Hundreds of US hydro facilities (including Brookfield’s) face expensive federal relicensing battles soon. Without Big Tech money to fund mandatory upgrades, many might have simply shuttered.

Nov. 17, 2025 -Droughts, floods and decades-old hardware are cutting output across major hydro fleets—Brazil, China, Canada, and the US all posted sharp declines as extreme weather pushed plants below historical capacity.

The global question: whether to double down on refurbishing old dams or build new ones in fragile watersheds—a hard sell in a moment when hydropower is both essential and increasingly vulnerable to the climate that once made it reliable.

Nov. 12, 2025 -Atop a research building in Sydney, scientists are testing an unassuming white coating that could make a big difference. A team from the University of Sydney have developed a nanoengineered polymer coating that cools buildings by reflecting nearly all sunlight. At the same time, it gathers fresh water directly from the air—no moving parts, no electricity required.

“Imagine roofs that not only stay cooler but also make their own fresh water,” said Professor Chiara Neto of the University of Sydney Nano Institute. “That’s the promise of this technology.”

Nov. 13, 2025 -Net energy billing has scaled from 17 MW of solar in 2015 to more than 1,600 MW today, driven by policy shifts, developer interest, and a rush of subscribers looking for cheaper power.

Lawmakers are now trying to rein in costs and stabilize the market. New reforms aim to prevent over-subscription, improve transparency, and create a more predictable regulatory runway for developers who need multi-year planning certainty.

Feb. 7, 2026 -The discussions started roughly a decade ago, when an account manager at Xcel Energy, the electricity and gas utility provider, expressed confusion, officials at Colorado Mesa University recalled.

A public school on the state’s remote western slope, Colorado Mesa had recently doubled in size, but its energy usage had hardly budged as it began installing an advanced geothermal heating and cooling system.

Jan. 30, 2026 - As geothermal heating and cooling slowly spreads in the U.S., some communities and utilities are looking to grow small pilot projects into much larger networks of pipes and heat pumps that extract and store heat in the earth to warm and cool homes and businesses as needed. Inside Climate News journalist Phil McKenna joins Host Jenni Doering to discuss the bipartisan interest in geothermal and describe a large geothermal HVAC system that demonstrates the possibilities and benefits of scaling up.

Jan. 21, 2026 -While peers like Fervo Energy engineer new ways to drill, Zanskar uses AI to find hidden, high-quality reservoirs that work with conventional equipment—a move designed to lower capex by avoiding “first-of-a-kind” tech risk.

Now, Zanskar is transitioning from a pure-play exploration tech firm into a power producer, with plans to build its first six 20 MW greenfield plants over the next 3–4 years.

Jan. 21, 2026 -NREL just released a new “heat-beneath-your-feet” cheat sheet designed to help geothermal developers stop guessing and start drilling. The deep crimson marks prime development zones for Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), and boy does it seem like the West is ready to let off some steam..

Dec. 12, 2025 -Hot rocks might be the next big thing in energy.

Global investment in geothermal energy is growing quickly — and it’s expected to keep climbing in the years to come, per new data from research firm Rystad Energy.

At the start of the 2020s, less than $2 billion flowed each year toward projects that harness the Earth’s natural underground heat to either produce electricity or directly warm buildings. By 2030, that figure could hit nearly $9 billion, Rystad predicts.

Dec. 10, 2025 -The round was led by B Capital but notably included Google, cementing the tech giant’s commitment to the tech (Fervo and Google already have a data center supply deal).

The cash will fund the completion of the 500 MW Cape Station in Utah, which Fervo says will be “mechanically complete” this year and online in 2026—a lightning-fast timeline for a major infrastructure project.

Dec. 9, 2025 -Pump jacks nod and the smell of gas wafts across the low brush and cactuses in the oil fields outside Christine, Texas. Little about the landscape suggests that a new form of alternative energy has been gaining its first commercial foothold in Texas.

But down a dirt road, near a coal-fired power plant, sits a unique kind of industrial battery, one that uses water pressure and the techniques of hydraulic fracturing to store energy deep underground and then release it to generate electricity when the time is right.

Dec. 4, 2025 -A geothermal startup said Thursday that it has hit gold in Nevada—metaphorically speaking. Zanskar, which uses AI to find hidden geothermal resources deep underground, says that it has identified a new commercially viable site for a potential power plant. The discovery, the company claims, is the first of its kind made by the industry in decades.

Dec. 3, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Energy has approved an $8.6 million grant that will allow the nation’s first utility-led geothermal heating and cooling network to double in size.

Gas and electric utility Eversource Energy completed the first phase of its geothermal network in Framingham, Massachusetts, in 2024. Eversource is a co-recipient of the award along with the city of Framingham and HEET, a Boston-based nonprofit that focuses on geothermal energy and is the lead recipient of the funding.

Dec. 2, 2025 -Rystad’s model shows the cost profile is stable worldwide—roughly half of spending goes to surface facilities, 47% to drilling and subsurface work, and some 2% to early exploration, which still carries outsized risk because it determines whether a project advances at all.

Market priorities differ by region: The US is scaling enhanced geothermal systems to supply round-the-clock power for data centers, Europe is using geothermal to decarbonize, and SE Asia continues to build out conventional geothermal for electricity as demand grows.

Nov. 30, 2025 -The system uses a sealed subsurface “lung” to store pressure and push water through a Pelton turbine on release, landing 4–6 hours of duration and 70–75% round-trip efficiency without the land, water, or geography constraints that limit pumped hydro or long-duration batteries.

SMECI—a rural co-op in a town of just 365 people—is pairing the project with 400 MW of solar and 200 MW of batteries funded through USDA’s New ERA Program.

Nov. 19, 2025 -On the slopes of an Oregon volcano, engineers are building the hottest geothermal power plant on Earth.

The plant will tap into the infernal energy of Newberry Volcano, “one of the largest and most hazardous active volcanoes in the United States,” according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It has already reached temperatures of 629 degrees Fahrenheit, making it one of the hottest geothermal sites in the world, and next year it will start selling electricity to nearby homes and businesses.

Oct. 28, 2025 -How it works: Instead of tapping underground hot water or using fracking, Eavor drills deep, connects a network of sealed pipes, and pumps water through them in a loop. The water picks up heat from the surrounding rock and brings it back to the surface to make electricity and heat nearby homes.

Early drilling took over 100 days per lateral, but Eavor’s new insulated drill pipe and refined techniques cut that time by 50% and tripled bit life, sharply reducing costs. Those gains could boost energy output per loop by 35%, putting the system’s economics in line with Europe’s current cost of heat.

Oct. 13, 2025 -After losing funding two years ago, Rodatherm Energy revived the 100 MW project thanks to new federal incentives for geothermal and investor interest in decarbonization. Construction could begin as soon as January 2026.

The plant uses a closed-loop design that circulates a heat-transfer fluid underground instead of water, eliminating the need to fracture rock or tap aquifers. Rodatherm says its system is 50% more efficient than conventional geothermal and can operate for decades with minimal maintenance.

Oct. 11, 2025 -VERONA, Wis.—You only need a glance at the “Intergalactic Headquarters” of Epic Systems to realize the corporate campus of this medical records software company is not a typical office park.

Buildings resemble Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, the Emerald City of Oz and Hogwarts Castle. There’s a treehouse conference room, a “Deep Space” auditorium and a stairway in “Heaven.”

Sept. 30, 2025 -The prototype performed within 2% of predictions, giving financial backers confidence that XGS can deliver steady baseload power without water loss.

Backed by $55M in funding so far, XGS says its thermally conductive materials boost heat extraction by up to 50%—and it already has 3 GW of projects lined up, mostly in the West where water is scarce and data center demand is booming.

First up: A 150-MW plant with Meta and PNM in New Mexico, with 5 MW online by 2027 and the balance by 2029.

Sept. 20, 2025 -From the billboard on the edge of town to the limestone monument on Vine Street, the signs are hard to miss: “West Union, Deeply Connected.” It’s a motto that could apply to many tight-knit farm towns across the Midwest where families date back generations.

But in this town of 2,500, the words have additional meaning.

Buried beneath the front lawn of the county courthouse and town square are 132 boreholes, each 300 feet deep. Pipes connected to the bores run below the surrounding blocks, providing downtown businesses with year-round geothermal energy. The high-efficiency, fossil-fuel-free heating and cooling system owned by the town was one of the first municipal thermal networks in the country when it began operating in 2014.

July 29, 2025 -Geothermal is one of the most promising clean energy sources in the US, providing 24/7 renewable power that could meet rising energy demand from AI datacentres. But former Department of Energy officials are alarmed that Donald Trump is fumbling its potential.

Compared with other clean energy sources such as solar and wind, geothermal enjoys rare bipartisan support. The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, has praised the technology, calling it “an awesome resource that’s under our feet”.

Sept. 18, 2025 -The government may consider a national level program to financially support geothermal projects after assessing their viability and technical feasibility, the renewable energy ministry said on Wednesday.

The policy, released on Monday, outlined resource assessment, pilot projects deployment, capacity building, and the broad contours of the way forward.

July 6, 2025 -The “where” matters: Taiwan straddles two tectonic plates, making it rich in geothermal potential—a fact increasingly recognized by both the Taiwanese government and Big Tech.

President Lai Ching-te has supported growing Taiwan’s geothermal footprint to produce more clean power and shore up its grid, and Google announced plans to build a pilot geothermal facility to power its Taiwanese data centers earlier this year.

June 26, 2025 -The sweeping community in the Austin suburb of Manor is filled with modern homes, small manicured lawns, quiet streets and rooftops outfitted with solar panels. Hidden beneath it is a network of pipes and man-made reservoirs that heat and cool hundreds of households via geothermal technology — a source that currently provides less than 1% of the U.S. electrical demand.

When completed, Whisper Valley will consist of approximately 7,500 owner-occupied and rental homes and multi-family units ranging in price from $350,000 to $750,000; three schools; 2 million square feet of commercial space; and 700 acres of park and outdoor community spaces. Habitat for Humanity is set to build affordable housing, which will hook up to the geothermal network.

June 11, 2025 -The startup is developing what promises to be the largest enhanced geothermal power plant in the world. The initial phase of Cape Station is expected to come online next year and produce 100 megawatts of electricity, and a subsequent expansion set to open in 2028 will add another 400 megawatts.

Enhanced geothermal, which runs deeper and hotter than traditional geothermal, has become a favored technology in the quest to find new power sources for AI data centers. By tapping the Earth’s heat, geothermal promises to provide 24/7 power without emissions. It doesn’t hurt that it relies on skills pioneered by the oil and gas industry, something that likely helps its standing within the Trump administration.

May 12, 2025 -Like much of New England, the public schools in New Bedford, Massachusetts, have burned heating oil and natural gas for decades to keep their buildings warm through long, cold winters.

But that is beginning to change.

Mar. 25, 2025 -It’s pretty easy to get into hot water in Boise. After all, it’s in Idaho, a state filled with hundreds of hot springs.

The city has tapped into that naturally hot water to create the largest municipally run geothermal system in the country.

Feb. 17, 2025 -Air source heat pumps are the darlings of the clean energy world, a high efficiency, all-electric heating and cooling device that allows homeowners to ditch fossil fuels. But there’s a catch. When temperatures plummet, their efficiency can also tank, causing electric bills to soar as the devices’ compressors and fans have to work harder to pull what little heat remains in outdoor air.

Jan 31, 2023 -Wind and solar supplied more of the EU’s electricity than any other power source for the first time ever in 2022, new analysis finds.

They together provided a record one-fifth of the EU’s electricity in 2022 – a larger share than gas or nuclear, according to a report by the climate thinktank .

SOLAR UNITED NEIGHBORS], Aug. 21, 2023 -The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) offers federal grants and loans to help farmers and rural small business owners go solar. REAP grants have helped thousands of these business owners across the country reduce their energy costs and improve their energy security with solar. Download our guide, Your Rural Business Can Go Solar: A Guide to Applying for a Rural Energy for America Program Grant, to learn more about how your business can go solar with REAP today.

July 3, 2023 -Most individuals are fine with just knowing that the panels are made of a special material that’s able to absorb and use the power of the sun, even storing it for use during periods when the sun isn’t shining, such as cloudy days and, of course, at night.

But if you really want to know more about solar panels and the materials that are used to construct them, click now to learn more.

May-June 2023 Issue *by Bill McKibben- The United States is on the brink of its most consequential transformation since the New Deal. Read more about what it takes to decarbonize the economy, and what stands in the way, here.

Click now to learn more about these Microgrids.

May-June 2023 Issue *by Michael Mechanic- The transition to clean power will require massive solar expansion—not just home rooftop arrays but photovoltaic installations near population centers. Where to mount all the panels? One answer seems obvious: over parking lots, which also bake during the summer, contributing to dangerous “heat island” effects. Shading Walmart Supercenter lots with PV canopies, for instance, would generate loads of power and allow stores to entice shoppers with free EV charging and cooler lots. And a cool customer is a happy customer.

May-June 2023 Issue *by Michael Mechanic- The transition to clean power will require massive solar expansion—not just home rooftop arrays but photovoltaic installations near population centers.

Where to mount all the panels? One answer seems obvious: over parking lots, which also bake during the summer, contributing to dangerous “heat island” effects. Shading Walmart Supercenter lots with PV canopies, for instance, would generate loads of power and allow stores to entice shoppers with free EV charging and cooler lots. And a cool customer is a happy customer.

May-June 2023 Issue *by Michael Mechanic- Microgrids are poised to take off. If you’ve never heard of them, you will soon. “A microgrid,” as journalist Lois Parshley explains in her accompanying story for our Electrify Everything package, “is basically a relatively small, local system that can generate, store, and/or distribute electricity, and can function off of the main grid if need be.

They can be public or private, and consist of anything from a couple of neighbors sharing a solar panel to a bitcoin mine powered by its own wind farm.”

Mar. 21, 2023 -Manufacturing all silicon solar panels to be deployed in the United States domestically would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 23% and energy use by 4% compared to outsourced manufacturing, according to a new analysis. The findings suggest that “reshoring” solar panel production could help the country decarbonize faster.

Sep. 27, 2022 -You can still have all the benefits of solar power in your home without disfiguring it. Thanks to advances in solar technology over the last decade or so, there are now alternatives to traditional solar panels.

Specifically, building-applied photovoltaics (BAPVs) are a discreet way of installing solar technology in your home – no one will even be able to detect them.

Oct. 29, 2022 -Table of Contents:
Solar Myth #1: Solar panels are too expensive.
Solar Myth #2: Solar panels are not reliable.
Solar Myth #3: Solar panels require a lot of maintenance.
Solar Myth #4: Solar power doesn’t work in cold climates.
Solar Myth #5: Solar panels take up too much space.
Solar Myth #6: Solar power is unreliable because it depends on the weather.
Solar Myth #7: Going solar will cause my energy bills to go up.
Solar Myth #8: Solar energy is not safe

Pager Power, Oct. 6, 2021 -Agrivoltaics is the practice of using the same area of land for both solar photovoltaic power as well as for agriculture, which implies that solar panels and crops will share sunlight.

This type of co-development is not new to the industry. Often terrain used for agriculture purposes is also used by wind developers to harness the power of wind, or animals grazing in farms help controlling the height of the grass in solar photovoltaic fields.

Mar. 17, 2022, (The Conversation) -The UK government is reportedly considering a £16 billion proposal to build a solar power station in space.

Yes, you read that right. Space-based solar power is one of the technologies to feature in the government’s Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. It has been identified as a potential solution, alongside others, to enable the UK to achieve net zero by 2050.

But how would a solar power station in space work? What are the advantages and drawbacks to this technology?

March 26, 2022 - The solar industry has come a long way in just the last few years. The latest developments and breakthroughs in solar technology include longer-lasting solar cells, solar cells that you can print onto flexible surfaces, solar panels that track the sun from east to west throughout the day, and solar power plants that work at night.

Mar. 28, 2022, (gtm)-Policymakers looking to speed up renewable energy deployment have a best-practice case study to look to: Australia is rolling out renewables 10 times faster than the global average, offering lessons as to what factors can improve the uptake of clean energy.

Mar. 21, 2022, (orbitalmarine.com)-Manufactured and launched in Dundee earlier in the year before being towed up to Orkney, the O2 is Orbital’s first commercial turbine and represents the culmination of more than 15 years of world leading product development in the UK.

The 74m long turbine is expected to operate in the waters off Orkney for the next 15 years with the capacity to meet the annual electricity demand of around 2,000 UK homes with clean, predictable power from the fast-flowing waters. In a further ground-breaking element of the project, the O2 is to provide power to EMEC’s onshore electrolyzer to generate green hydrogen that will be used to demonstrate decarbonization of wider energy requirements.

Dec. 1, 2021, (POWER)- The vision sounds far-fetched: If a kilometer-scale satellite could be outfitted with a hybrid array of photovoltaic (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP) panels and launched into orbit 22,400 miles above Earth, it could continuously harvest 3.4 GW of solar power and beam it down to Earth via microwave radiation for grid consumption, potentially delivering 2 GW of dispatchable and baseload power.

But according to a “whole systems” set of detailed engineering and economic feasibility studies conducted by systems, engineering, and technology-oriented Frazer-Nash Consultancy for the UK government, this concept of a typical space-based solar power (SBSP) system is both technically and economically feasible—and it can be achieved within the next 18 years.

October, 2017, (THE VERGE)The wings of a butterfly have inspired a new type of solar cell that can harvest light twice as efficiently as before and could one day improve our solar panels.

Solar panels are usually made of thick solar cells, and are positioned at an angle to get the most amount of light from the sun as it moves throughout the day. Thin film solar cells, which can be only nanometers thick, have a lot of potential.

June 18, 2021 (Scientific American) -Restrictions on land use for greenfield solar projects, roof orientation, and inherent technical advantages, may prove floating solar, or floatovoltaic to be a viable energy alternative.

When it comes to large-scale solar projects, the most common alternatives to rooftop solar panel systems include ground mounts or solar canopies. There’s a newer alternative that’s making quite the splash in the solar industry: floating solar.

Floatovoltaic is defined as solar panels arrayed to float on the top of a lake or reservoir, placed on a buoyant sub-structure, and anchored with a measure of flexible movement. The technology is relatively-new starting in 2008 with China, Japan, and the U.K. as the early adopters.

-Studio Solarix makes coloured solar panels and facade systems by doing this we can make buildings more sustainable, both in new construction and redevelopment. To this end, it designs, researches and develops aesthetic, sustainable and energy-generating facade elements.

It originated from a joint ambition of Reinier Bosch (product designer, artist) and Marloes van Heteren (architect). With a great deal of substantive knowledge, they are the initiators of Solarix in the market of architecture, product development, design and sustainability; a beautiful facade panel that provides energy to people.

July 27, 2021 (CleanTechnica) -A hydrogen fuel cell is an electrochemical power generator that combines hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity, with water and heat as by-products. Simply put, hydrogen fuel cells form energy that can be used to power anything from commercial vehicles to drones.

Hydrogen fuel cell technology offers the advantages of a clean and reliable alternative energy source to customers in a growing number of applications – electric vehicles, including forklifts, delivery vans, drones, and cars – primary and backup power for a variety of commercial, industrial, and residential buildings; and more futuristic-sounding applications like air taxis.

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1. Is your location’s climate suitable for solar?

2. Is your home suitable for solar panels?

3. Do you have access to solar financial incentives?

4. How much do you pay for electricity?

5. Have you found a solar installer?

Chris Lord’s FREE Site Lease vs. Buy Modeling Calculator allows users to compare a lease rate against a potential purchase of a solar PV site where the lease rate (including escalator) is known.

Mar. 31, 2021(INHABITATs), -France keeps making green headlines lately… the Eiffel Tower’s wind turbines, the tree-shaped wind turbines being installed in Paris, and now an exciting new law that is sure to have a huge environmental impact in urban centers.

Every new commercial building in France must meet a new building requirement; the roof must be at least partially covered in either solar panels or plants.

Environmental activists had originally called for all for all rooftops to be 100% green, but the Government limited the scope of the law to include commercial buildings only. In an effort to make it less onerous for businesses, the rooftops will also only have to be partially green.

(AE News), Apr. 13, 2020 -German Architect Andre Broessel believes he has a solution that can “squeeze more juice out of the sun”, even during the night hours and in low-light regions. His company Rawlemon has created a spherical sun power generator prototype called the beta.ray. His technology will combine spherical geometry principles with a dual axis tracking system, allowing twice the yield of a conventional solar panel in a much smaller surface area. The futuristic design is fully rotational and is suitable for inclined surfaces, walls of buildings, and anywhere with access to the sky. It can even be used as an electric car charging station.

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(The Guardian), Dec. 8, 2020 -The race is on to find a steady source of lithium, a key component in rechargeable electric car batteries. But while the EU focuses on emissions, the lithium gold rush threatens environmental damage on an industrial scale

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(greener ideal), Oct. 19, 2017 -After solar power, solar water heating is often the next step that homeowners take to make their home more sustainable.

A solar water heating system works by converting sunlight into heat using a solar thermal collector. This heat is then used to heat water in homes and swimming pools.

If you plan to install a solar water heating system in your home, make sure to include domestic hot water as well. There’s little point in installing a solar water heating system if you can’t benefit from domestic hot water which is a necessity all year round.

Jan. 31, 2020,(SAGE journals) -Over recent years, few areas of international development research have seen as much transformation as those relating to energy access and low carbon transitions. Ghana, amongst other African economies, has seen an increase in energy demand surpassing the supply of energy in the last decade. The incorporation of the incorporation of renewable energy into the mix is, therefore, seen as a significant role in addressing the energy needs by replacing conventional fuels with clean and reliable domestic electricity with the advantage of local economic opportunities.

The country has adopted the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG); SDG goal 7 targets ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services. This target presents a formidable challenge to Ghana because the country still relies mainly on non-renewable energy sources. The country has a huge potential for renewable energy that remains underexploited. This study, therefore, seeks to assess the current renewable energy resource situation, examine the trend in Ghana’s energy consumption and undertake a comprehensive review and critical evaluation of Ghana’s renewable energy drive and policies.

April 1, 2020 (AENews)-Since 2011, French Company Ciel & Terre has been developing large-scale floating solar solutions. Their innovative Hydrelio Floating PV system allows standard PV panels to be installed on large bodies of water such as: drinking water reservoirs, quarry lakes, irrigation canals, remediation and tailing ponds, and hydro electric dam reservoirs. This simple and affordable alternative to ground-mounted systems is particularly suitable for water-intensive industries who cannot afford to waste either land or water.

The main float is constructed of high-density thermoplastic (HDPE) and is set at a 12 degree angle to support a standard 60 Cell PV solar module. A secondary non-slip HDPE float is then used to link the main floats together and provide a platform for maintenance and added buoyancy as illustrated when you click on the link to the story.

Dec. 16, 2019  (ScienceDaily)- Artificial Intelligence may be just the thing to accelerate spray-on solar cell technology, which could revolutionize how consumers use energy.

It's a stunning example of how 3D printing is not only a viable and affordable construction method of the future but also a revolutionary system that can help reduce plastic waste.

A research team at the University of Central Florida used Machine Learning, aka Artificial Intelligence to optimize the materials used to make perovskite solar cells (PSC). The Organic-Inorganic halide perovskites material used in PSC converts photovoltaic power into consumable energy.

Sept. 18, 2019 (U.S. Energy Information Administration)-In 2018, about 4,178 billion kilowatthours (kWh) (or 4.18 trillion kWh) of electricity were generated at utility-scale electricity generation facilities in the United States.1 About 63% of this electricity generation was from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, petroleum, and other gases). About 20% was from nuclear energy, and about 17% was from renewable energy sources. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that an additional 30 billion kWh of electricity generation was from small-scale solar photovoltaic systems in 2018

Bright Hub -One of the most beneficial ways of increasing the efficiency of a wind turbine is to modify the design of the turbine blades. Although there are already many types of blade designs already in the market, only a few designs have turned out to be useful.

Whalepower, a Canadian company that uses bio-mimicry, a concept of adapting the designs of nature into developing mechanical machine, has changed the design of the conventional turbine blades from flat smooth blades to a ridged design similar to that of whale fins. The blades of whale power turbine features a series of ridges just like the tubercles or bumps found on the humpback whale fins.

Apr. 4, 2019 (Power Technology) —How are modern stadiums using renewables as a source of energy and which are the best stadiums for renewable energy in the world?

Sports stadiums require a huge amount of power, in particular on match-days when lighting, air-conditioning and video screens all electricity, along with a vast multitude of other energy-intensive demands. Even when not in use, stadiums and other sporting arenas need large amounts of power for maintenance.

The possibilities for incorporating renewable energy technology into stadiums and the surrounding areas provide a huge opportunity for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This can include placing solar panels on roofs and on the roads leading towards the arenas.

In the U.S. several landfills have already been converted into solar farms. The project also provides the opportunity to convert an unusable land and turn it into something that can become the asset of the community.

Water is a finite resource, as water wars in California can attest. Reducing our water footprint is essential to conserving this life-giving substance.

Solar Thermal Magazine Feb.10, 2019 -You would think that a state that refers to itself as the sunshine state would be rushing to install solar power technology. I mean with all that sunshine ( not to mention wind, wave and tidal energy) available why buy electricity from out of state.

Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), already a self proclaimed leader in solar energy, has announced a groundbreaking “30-by-30” plan to install more than 30 million solar panels by 2030 and make the state of Florida a world leader in the production of solar energy.

Jan. 7, 2020 (Arcadia Blog) -One of the most popular clean energy sources in North America, solar power, has skyrocketed in use in the U.S. over the last decade. Current estimates show that the volume of solar energy generated across installations nationally is enough to power 12-million American homes, and that number is only expected to grow.

They’re limited to generating energy during the day — but function less efficiently the cloudier it is outside, collecting an estimated 10 to 25 percent of their typical output on cloudy days.

But recent research from Soochow University in Suzhou, China, stands to change this. In 2018, a research team from the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials crafted a solar cell that simultaneously generates electricity from sunlight and rainfall — allowing solar panels to continue to collect energy at full capacity during storms and subsequently expanding the duration of time at which a panel can function in any given day. Unlike typical solar panels, these panels would continue working on cloudy days and crucially, could even work at night.

January, 2019 Arcadia Power Blog -The fight against climate change is a fight for everyone, from individuals to businesses, national and local governments.

Among many leaders driving change towards a 100% renewable energy future, find these 156 major global companies—each of whom have pledged to go 100% renewable in the near future.

Look for your trusted bank, service, or a favorite brand, and see when and how each of them are working to meet their goals. Click to read on.

Around the world, cities, states, countries, and companies (and people just like you!) are making the switch to clean, renewable energy to help confront climate change – and because it just makes good economic sense.

Renewable energy is both a clean alternative to the fossil fuels driving the climate crisis and an engine for job creation. What’s not to love? But like any new technology, as it starts to take hold, there are bound to be questions.

While it’s hard to miss a massive solar array or a field full of wind turbines, so much of the action with geothermal energy happens out-of-sight that it tends to not generate as much love as its buzzier brothers in the renewable energy landscape.

And that’s too bad, because geothermal energy is pretty awesome. It takes the natural functions of the Earth and puts them to great use heating homes, creating electricity, and helping to propel the global shift from the dirty fossil fuels driving climate change to renewables.

Dec. 22, 2022 -Dec. 23, 2022 -No matter how sustainable, eco-friendly, and clean sources of energy they are, conventional solar panels require a large setup area and heavy initial investment. Due to these limitations, it’s hard to introduce them in urban areas (especially neighborhoods with lots of apartment blocks or shops). But thanks to the work of ingenious engineers at the University of Michigan, that may soon no longer be the case.

The researchers have created transparent solar panels which they claim could be used as power-generating windows in our homes, buildings, and even rented apartments.

Mar. 21, 2022, (Echo Wave Power)-Eco Wave Power (EWP) (Nasdaq US Stock Symbol: WAVE) developed an innovative technology for production of clean electricity from ocean and sea waves.

Echo's aim to generate clean & affordable electricity, using a simple but smart design, allowing our floaters to be attached to existing man-made structures, and thereby simplifying installation and maintenance as well as accessibility.

EWP’s innovative technology has been recognized as a “Pioneering Technology” by the Chief Scientist of the Energy Ministry of Israel and received an Efficient Solution label from Solar Impulse Foundation.

Renewable energy is energy generated from ongoing natural processes like wind or sunlight that are not depleted when used. Unlike fossil fuels, these types of energy are theoretically unlimited. In contrast, fossil fuels like oil and gas are finite resources formed in the earth ove hundreds of millions of years from the remains of plants and animals.

Importantly, and unlike fossil fuels, renewable energy is clean and doesn’t release carbon pollution into the atmosphere (which drives climate change). Burning fossil fuels does.

Nov. 9, 2021, (Washington Post)-Ocean boosters like to compare the kinetic energy stored in the sea to a ginormous oil reserve that’s never going to run dry.

It doesn’t matter if the sun shines or the wind blows. The tides turn. You can set your watch to them. The trick is how to generate cost-effective, renewable electricity from that limitless, ceaseless motion. They’re working on the problem here on Scotland’s Orkney Islands.

Mar. 20, 2018 -Months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is still struggling to become fully energized. A number of grassroots efforts think solar energy can speed the recovery and prevent a total blackout when the next storm hits.

Feb. 27, 2018 -Are you passionate about green energy and protecting our planet? Are you looking for a career you can be proud of that offers possibilities we aren’t even aware of yet? Look no further than the renewable energy industry.

You could be working in wind or solar power in no time with the right education and tools to get you set on this exciting path. Here are some of the best degrees to pursue and the career choices that may come your way.

Here’s a quick primer on what a hydrogen fuel cell is…
Simply put, it’s an electromagnetic cell that converts the chemical energy of a fuel (for our purposes, hydrogen) and an oxidizing agent (oxygen) into electricity through a chemical reaction.

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July, 2020 (NREL)-A floating solar photovoltaic (FPV) system is an emerging technology in which a solar photovoltaic (PV) system is placed directly on top of a body of water, as opposed to on land or on building rooftops. An NREL blog post from Jan. 24, 2017 discussed FPV and was based on forward-thinking state energy offices inquiring about the technology through NREL’s state technical assistance programs. The blog post introduced the technology and discussed the benefits of FPVs, as well as different examples of pilot FPVs in the United States.

Jan. 2, 2018 - From Clean Technica : Not too long ago, the mention of hydrogen, or concentrating solar power, or both at the same time, would be met by a roll of the eye from alternative energy insiders. Hydrogen is an abundant and clean-burning fuel, but the primary source of hydrogen is natural gas. Concentrating solar power has a built-in energy storage element, but it is more complicated and expensive than other solar technologies. Et cetera, et cetera, and so on and so forth.

From Natiional Geographic: There are many benefits to using renewable energy resources, but what is it exactly? From solar to wind, find out more about alternative energy, the fastest-growing source of energy in the world, and how we can use it to combat climate change

Dec. 15, 2017 - From Renewable Energy World: It is easier to believe in the future of solar today than it was decades ago. This article honors eight of the women who believed and persevered and pioneered the PV industry of today and without who it might be a very different industry indeed.

Each woman has in her own way championed the cause of climate change as well as the cause of the solar industry and has worked tirelessly educating, conducting research and deploying solar technologies to ensure the future of the industry.

July 6, 2020,(4C Offshore) -Transmission System Operator (TSO) 50Hertz has launched an economic and climate initiative for the grid area the company is responsible for: the eastern German states as well as the city states of Berlin and Hamburg. With the slogan “From 60 to 100 by 2032: for an economy with prospects”, 50Hertz has set itself the specific goal of getting the electricity demand in its grid area covered – and securely integrated – with 100 percent renewable energies by 2032. In 2019, the annual average share of renewables attained about 60%.

0Hertz stated it will align its entire corporate strategy with this new objective and use all its know-how to that end in the scope of its statutory duty to operate the grid securely and reliably. This involves new approaches to system operation, a consistent digitization of the integration of an increasingly volatile electricity supply as well as the participation in innovative models of sector coupling to generate heat and produce hydrogen from “green” power.

From Wageningen University: Experiments have proven that plants can serve as a source of clean and renewable energy.

As part of the European project PlantPower, researchers are studying whether this technology is suitable for large-scale applications.They are also examining the technical feasibility and the economic profitability.

Scientists all over the world are looking for alternatives to fossil fuels. Plant materials are already used as an energy source through bio-fermentation. Now it appears that living plants can also contribute to energy production. In a plant microbial fuel cell, living plants work together with micro-organisms to create electricity.

This results in clean and renewable energy, while the plant remains alive. The first practical tests have been very promising. In projects supported by the EU and Agentschap NL (an agency of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs), European and Dutch institutes, universities, and businesses are cooperating to gain more knowledge about this technology and its applications.

Sept. 1, 2019 (Union of Concerned Scientists)-Innovative programs around the country now make it possible for all environmentally conscious energy consumers to support renewable energy directly by participating in the "green" power market. The willingness to pay for the benefits of increasing our renewable energy supplies can be tapped within any market structure and by any size or type of energy consumer.

Environment Florida, May 31, 2019  - Solar power is expanding rapidly. The United States now has over 60 gigawatts (GW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity installed — enough to power nearly one in every 11 homes in America. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have invested in solar energy and millions more are ready to join them.

America’s major cities have played a key role in the clean energy revolution and stand to reap tremendous benefits from solar energy. As population centers, they are major sources of electricity demand and, with millions of rooftops suitable for solar panels, they have the potential to be major sources of clean energy production as well.

View a chart showing all of the reported projects in North and Central America that have 100% renewable energy goals, including some you would not have expected.

Feb. 14, 2017 - Here is a vision of the future in a warming world without fossil fuels.

No switching on the air conditioning because your roof re-radiates the sun’s heat back into space.

You don’t have to worry that the current from solar energy will turn off at night, because the same sunlight that powered the refrigerator has also turned two greenhouse gases into hydrocarbon fuel that serves as battery back-up.

The new Solar Farmhouse contains everything the quintessential home possesses -- the quaint front porch, the white wood siding, the gabled roof, and the simple lines -- updated with a slew of net-zero features, including a passive solar design, air-tight building envelope, and open plan.

In 2017 renewable energy represented 17.5 % of energy consumed in the EU, on a path to the 2020 target of 20 %.

The share of energy from renewable sources used in transport activities reached 7.6 % in 2017.

These stats will be updated in Feb. 2020. Stay tuned.

Gardens by the Bay will be Singapore's largest garden project and is central to their continued development of Marina Bay.

There are various incentives being offered. The article explains it in detail.

The world needs widely available reliable, affordable, carbon-free energy. New tools are needed to power the world.

Bill Gates, George Soros and others are behind this.

Affordable, lightweight, and versatile, batteries made of porous materials could soon transform energy storage.