China will reportedly eliminate hydrogen fuel-cell car subsidies at the end of 2020, raising questions about Beijing’s goal to have a million of the vehicles…
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Spain has connected more solar to its grid in the first nine months of 2019 than the last 10 years put together. Data released by…
It’s official: Lithium-ion batteries are Nobel Prize-worthy. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded this year’s chemistry prize to three scientists who, working separately in different…
As grids get saturated with wind and solar electricity, there’s increasing pressure to find new ways to store that energy across daily, monthly or seasonal…
California officials are not happy about Pacific Gas & Electric’s handling of its massive fire-prevention power outage last week. Gov. Gavin Newsom and state regulators on Monday…
The very last step of shipping packages in a city — not the end mile but the “final 50 feet” — bedevils delivery drivers. Every day, they…
Nigeria has been drowning in oil for decades. Since the mid-1950s, the country has suffered from a “resource curse” economy, where the main source of…
Picture this: You heard the buzz about cutting costs and emissions with electric fleets. So, you added some electric vehicles to your fleet in part…
With the transportation sector accounting for the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States (at nearly 29 percent), Elemental Excelerator is focused…
This article is sponsored by Dalkia. Let’s face it — we’re in a climate crisis that’s upending the earth’s natural ecosystems, impacting our communities and…
Duke Energy has promised major investment in energy storage for its Carolina territory. It took another step toward substantiating that promise by designing a battery…
Even by the standards of the generally well-informed clean-energy customers in California’s Bay Area, Todd Karin is a savvy one. Karin works as a postdoctoral…
Air Liquide had a special gift for the U.S. on the little-known National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day this month: The French industrial giant announced…
Renewable energy sources generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the U.K. for the whole of the third quarter, the first time that has happened,…
The Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) is responsible for about 15 percent of the 40 gigawatts of utility-scale solar now installed in the United…
In just a few short years, the focus at the annual Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation conference has shifted from issues around producing electricity from…
Basically, it involved bringing a novelty act — one or more performers doing something of, let’s just say, questionable entertainment value — followed by a…
This article is adapted from GreenBiz’s Circular Weekly newsletter on the latest circular economy news, running Fridays. Subscribe here. It’s six months since I began…
We live in a time and place where we need to decide to change our behaviors, as they relate to climate change and sustainability, faster…
If 30 years from now we are living in a world with net-zero carbon emissions, we might one day call late 2018 the Great Climate…