New England utility Eversource wants to deploy energy storage to back up an outage-prone New Hampshire town, while saving customers money. The 18,070 residents of…
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Edible seaweed pods that hold drinking water. Inedible banana leaves around perishable food. 3D printing from corn starch. Diapers made from eucalyptus wood. Small and…
Week in Review Tune in around 6:14 for commentary on this week’s stories. Circularity needs a positive narrative to drive action It’s time to include…
We are losing the fight against climate change, warns UN Secretary General António Guterres. Even if countries were on track to meet their Paris Agreement…
Low-carbon investment firm Hannon Armstrong has partnered with developer Summit Ridge Energy to finance community solar projects, the companies announced this week. The companies structured…
For people who want to help address climate change through their daily choices, many media headlines point to avoiding meat as the biggest way to…
1999: the year “The Matrix” was released, Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France and the euro was introduced as a common currency. For…
Waitrose has transformed one of its stores as it seeks to trial a range of green innovations designed to slash waste levels and encourage customers…
The wind industry has been slow to take off in Africa. Developers commissioned projects in only four African markets in 2018. However, the policy inconsistency…
The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission recently approved the first big decision in its legislatively mandated task of creating a performance-based ratemaking framework for the state’s…
The speculative field of gravity-based energy storage got a boost recently with news of a strategic investment and new patents. Swiss-U.S. startup Energy Vault, one…
Anheuser-Busch announced that it is on track to meet its 100 percent renewable energy by 2021 goal four years ahead of schedule, following the closing…
This week, I find myself sitting squarely at the intersection of clarity and confusion when it comes to my perspective about what’s needed to transform…
As more companies set — and approach — 100 percent clean energy targets, the range of renewable energy procurement methods available to corporate offtakers is maturing.…
California’s combination of increasingly dangerous wildfires and utility liability legal doctrine has already pushed its biggest investor-owned utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, into bankruptcy. What policy…
Starbucks announced another large-scale renewables deal Wednesday, with enough power to supply 3,000 of its U.S. stores. The portfolio, encompassing 146 megawatts of wind and…
As we approach mid-2019 (how? when?), it only seems appropriate to check in on the state of the global electric vehicle sector. Luckily for Electric…
The British industrial city Manchester is pretty much known for three contributions to global culture: its soccer team, Manchester United; Herman’s Hermits, the dreamy 1960s…
This article is adapted from GreenBiz’s newsletter, Transportation Weekly. Subscribe here. Docked between San Francisco’s famous Fisherman’s Wharf and rows of vendors hawking clam chowder-filled…
Avangrid may be one of the biggest developers of onshore renewables in the U.S., with a fleet of more than 50 wind farms, but these…