Tesla, Tiffany and a toymaker make the cut in clean energy ETF
What do a luxury jeweler, a tech behemoth and a toymaker have to do with renewable energy?
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Clean energy vs cyber-crime: Why a holistic approach is essential
While many countries are already taking decisive steps to try and reduce their carbon footprint, the global cost of inaction on climate change is estimated to reach US $23 trillion a year by 2020. But what more can the energy industry be doing to help bring about change?
Italy’s clean energy town asks why populists are abandoning it
Italy’s Five Star Movement used to rave about towns like Montieri, a village in the verdant Tuscan foothills that burns little coal or natural gas. Instead, the local power plant harnesses steam rising naturally from hot springs deep underground to generate electricity.
Shell markets gas with offset package as neutral for climate
Royal Dutch Shell Plc is attempting to market some of its natural gas as clean energy, packaging it with credits for eco-friendly projects that offset pollution coming from the fuel.
Outer Hebrides groups team up to utilise clean energy and reduce costs
Lews Castle College UHI and housing organisation Tighean Innse Gall on Lewis have linked up with the University of Oulu in Finland to develop a unique, energy initiative which could make a real difference to the lives of people, facing high energy costs in areas which have a challenging climate.
Clean energy spending boost ‘will save millions of lives’
An increase in global energy investment of seven per cent could prevent millions of deaths from air pollution a year by 2040, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.
Total snaps up Belgian renewables firm
French energy giant Total has snapped up Belgian renewables firm Lampiris, acquiring all of the company's shares in an undisclosed deal.
UK now has more than 1m solar homes
The UK now has more than a million “solar homes” that get electricity or hot water from the sun, the industry has said.
UK and global clean-energy investment hits new records
New figures show record levels of investment in UK and global clean-energy projects. The Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) report says global spending hit an all-time high in 2015, with nearly £230billion invested. Worldwide installed generating capacity also peaked, thanks to 64 gigawatts (GW) of wind power and 57GW of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy, it adds.
“Game changing” renewable plan could place Africa as clean energy continent
Plans to roll out as much as 300 gigawatts of renewable energy across Africa by 2030 - twice the continent’s total supplies - have been announced.
AFC Energy focussed on the future with its fuel cell technology
A British company's revolutionary alkaline fuel system that is commercialising technology first developed in the 19th century is set to commission a pilot project that could launch it into the big league of clean energy producers.
Billions pledged for clean energy research at Paris climate talks
Government and business leaders will pledge billions of pounds to research and develop a technical fix to the planet’s climate woes at high-stakes negotiations in Paris. Clean energy technology is being promoted as the key to fighting global warming at the UN climate summit.
Next London mayor challenged to create ‘100% clean energy city’ by 2050
London could run on 100% clean energy by mid-century, with electric cars, solar power and energy efficient homes, it has been claimed.
And another decade slips by
How serious is either Scotland or the UK about developing our renewable energy potential? To listen to the endless rhetoric about "the Saudi Arabia of renewables" or to judge by the setting of ever more ambitious targets by Edinburgh and Whitehall for conveniently distant dates, the question might seem redundant.
Event to focus on low-carbon investment
AN INTERNATIONAL conference which will aid Scotland's low-carbon economy by helping projects, technologies and companies to access finance and funding has been backed by the sector.
North ready to tap into wind and wave energy
THE commercial development of wind and wave power in the Pentland Firth and waters around Orkney could pave the way for an economic bonanza.
SolSource project scoops top prize
AN INNOVATIVE three-in-one solution for providing clean energy from the sun has won this year's St Andrews Prize for the Environment.