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Living

Can’t put solar panels on your home? Buy a bit of a solar park instead

Co-owning a wind farm or solar park could reduce your energy bills by 23 per cent and it's totally affordable. Here's how.

18/04/2023

Green News

Czech Republic unplugs hundreds of solar plants during sunny weather

Engineers worldwide are working on how to store the energy generated by renewables.

14/04/2023

Green News

7 environmental stories that are giving us hope this Earth Day

Short-haul flight bans and senior Swiss women taking the government to court are just some of the positive climate stories we’ve seen this year.

13/04/2023

Climate

Renewables break energy records signalling ‘end of the fossil age’

Coal is still the single largest source of electricity - but change is coming fast says Ember, with solar rising by 24% in 2022.

12/04/2023

Green News

Nuclear reactors turned off for good in Germany despite energy crisis

The country is pulling the plug on its last three reactors on 15 April.

11/04/2023

Climate

Phase out coal five times faster to stop ‘climate chaos’, report warns

A report has urged countries to close all coal plants by 2040 or face ‘climate chaos’.

06/04/2023

Climate

India grapples with keeping the lights on while cutting fossil fuels

Supplying the country’s 1.4 billion citizens with clean energy is not an easy task.

06/04/2023

Green News

Here’s why Albania is our Green country of the month

It’s not the biggest or most powerful nation, but has led by example in preserving a precious natural asset in March 2023.

31/03/2023

Eco-Innovation

Could abandoned mines hold the answer to storing renewable energy?

Could dropping containers of sand down mine shafts give us a way to store renewable energy?

29/03/2023

Green News

Why selling solar power from EU homes is about to get easier

An electricity market redesign is under way, aimed at shielding consumers from price spikes and boosting the rollout of renewables.

25/03/2023

Eco-Innovation

German solar school hopes to train ‘unbelievable number of people’

As German solar demand surges, a new school has opened to train workers.

22/03/2023

Eco-Innovation

Can power-hungry data centres redeem themselves by heating homes?

There's plenty of niche options for the heat from computer warehouses. But these aren't a 'panacea' for a power-hungry industry.

16/03/2023

Eco-Innovation

How is this tiny country leading Europe’s solar power drive?

This tiny country is short on land. But a forward-thinking government and innovative solutions are overcoming the lack of space.

08/03/2023

United Kingdom

Euroviews. UK's plan to exploit the offshore wind boom has been blown off course

Britain is alone among the top ten countries leading the energy transition in lacking a domestic wind energy leader in the market. As a result, other European energy giants are reaping the benefits, Carla Subirana writes.

03/03/2023

Eco-Innovation

Guilt-free flights are still out of reach in the UK, scientists warn

The Royal Society has warned that sustainable aviation solutions still need a lot of research and development.

28/02/2023

World News

Euroviews. As an MEP, I've been lobbied by the fossil fuel trade. It needs to end

I’ve experienced the fossil fuel industry’s lobbying tactics first-hand, and I’ve seen how they prevent serious action from being taken on climate, MEP Marie Toussaint writes.

25/02/2023

Eco-Innovation

A world-first solar system in Wales is halving renters’ energy bills


The SolShare technology is also 'fairer', enabling rooftop energy to be shared by residents rather than going back to the grid.

18/02/2023

Europe News

Nuclear energy included in EU’s new rules on green hydrogen

The implementation of the regulation has been delayed for more than a year now due to a dispute over what is defined as ‘renewable’ hydrogen.

13/02/2023

Green News

Irish energy firms told to drop 'bogus' 100% renewable power claims

The claims were supplied under a Europe-wide scheme that allows energy companies to buy renewable power certificates.

10/02/2023

Green News

Renewable energy to become world's top source of electricity by 2025

Renewables will ‘dominate’ surge in electricity demand over next two years, data show.

09/02/2023