Clean energy is growing rapidly on the Texas power grid, but regulators in the Lone Star State are now considering a plan that could give fossil fuels a boost. The trio of zero greenhouse gas emissions – wind, solar and nuclear energy – provided more than 40 percent of the electricity in the state by […]
Investment in cleaner energy is on the verge of overtaking spending on fossil fuels for the first time ever after exceeding $1 trillion last year, a report on Tuesday said. Despite the milestone, spending on energy transition technology must immediately triple to meet the target of net-zero emissions by 2050 to combat climate change, according […]
One of the world’s biggest solar plants will become fully operational this year in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, months before it hosts UN climate talks, a partner company said Tuesday. The UAE, a major oil exporter, is spending billions to develop enough renewable energy to cover half of its needs by 2050, […]
An ultrathin protective coating proves sufficient to protect a perovskite solar cell from the harmful effects of space and harden it against environmental factors on Earth, according to newly published research from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Operational Energy Capability […]
Wind and solar power produced more of the EU’s electricity than fossil gas for the first time last year. Renewable energies were responsible for a fifth record (22 percent) of the block’s electricity, a new report from the clean energy think tank Ember shows. Through the turmoil of 2022 – from cutting ties with Russia […]
The importance of solar power as a renewable energy resource is increasing. Sunlight contains high-energy UV light with a wavelength shorter than 400 nm, which can be broadly used, for example, for photopolymerization to form a resin and activation of photocatalysts to drive reactions that generate green hydrogen or useful hydrocarbons (fuels, sugars, olefins, […]
