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The government’s decision to overturn an effective five-year-old ban on new onshore wind power generation is hugely welcome. Wind provides the cheapest energy, with the first subsidy-free contracts for offshore projects awarded last year. Onshore wind is even cheaper. It is also popular, scoring above other infrastructure (including roads and railway stations) in opinion polls […]
The UK has abandoned its opposition to subsidising new onshore windfarms, four years after ministers scrapped support for new projects. The government will remove a block against onshore wind projects by allowing schemes to compete for subsidies alongside solar power developments and floating offshore wind projects, in a new auction scheme announced on Monday. Just […]
Have you ever seen a wind turbine blade up close? Few things capture the ingenuity of humans more than the sheer size of wind turbines. They look like toys on hillsides from freeways and planes. Yet if you’ve ever seen one at close range, it’s actually difficult to comprehend. Moving wind turbines is incredibly complicated. […]
With the spinoff of materials giant Dow last year from the DowDuPont union, the company — which recorded $43 billion in annual sales for 2019 from selling the building blocks of plastics and coatings — is taking the circular economy seriously. A year ago, Dow helped launch a coalition focused on ending plastic pollution. Dow […]
An international research team is proposing a fuzzy logic approach for optimal site selection of large-scale wind, solar and hybrid wind-solar power projects. The new methodology is based on criterial components for energy optimization through climatological, topographic and human factors. January 29, 2020Emiliano Bellini Image: hpgruesen, pixabay Researchers from the University of Mauritius and Australia’s […]
The corporate renewable procurements disclosed in the fourth quarter of 2019 were remarkable for being unremarkable. After two blockbuster quarters of contracts for solar, wind and other renewables — more than 2.8 gigawatts in Q2 and 4.1 GW in Q3 — the largest 12 corporate deals from U.S. companies between October and December pegged a […]
The government’s current energy policies have led to a sharp decline in the number of new onshore windfarms, raising fears that the UK may fall short of the renewable energy it needs to generate to meet its climate targets. Industry data shows the rollout of new onshore windfarms fell dramatically after the government scrapped subsidy […]
Imagine a source of clean, renewable electricity that could fight climate change, has been used in countries around the world for almost three decades and produces enough electricity to power tens of millions of homes. Then imagine that this source was growing faster than any other form of electricity except for solar power, and that […]
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