Green Energy

A Japanese megabank is tapping into what may be the country’s first solar panel farm located in a sheep pasture for renewable energy to power buildings housing the bank’s domestic branches. As part of its efforts to reduce carbon emissions, MUFG Bank has signed a contract with Osaka Gas Co. and Machiokoshi Energy Co. for […]

China recently announced plans to build an eight-gigawatt solar farm, which will be the largest in the world when completed. According to Electrek, the solar farm will be part of a nearly $11 billion project that will consist of (mostly) clean energy installations, including wind power and solar thermal power. The facility will be built […]

A coating 100 times thinner than a human hair could be “ink-jetted” onto your backpack, cell phone or car roof to harness the sun’s energy, new research shows, in a development that could reduce the world’s need for solar farms that take up huge swaths of land. Scientists from Oxford University’s physics department have developed […]

Solar panels work great in full sunlight conditions, but many regions have little sunlight on any given day, meaning there is less energy generated than needed. Now Tufts researchers have discovered that a particular type of jewel orchid, which thrives in low-light conditions, might offer a key to solving this problem. School of Engineering faculty […]

Green hydrogen is emerging as an important potential solution for decarbonizing transportation, but new energy efficiency findings indicate that it should be used strategically in heavy-duty road, rail, aviation and marine transportation, a University of Michigan study shows. Green hydrogen is produced by electrolysis with renewable energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. It […]

The supermajors continue to bet on LNG while scaling back renewables projects and investments as oil and gas returns continue to trump the poor profits from renewables. The world’s top international oil and natural gas firms are sanctioning new LNG projects and buying stakes in new developments as they see demand for natural gas growing […]

Local elected officials surveyed in Pennsylvania underestimate their constituents’ support for solar and other clean energy projects, according to a paper, “Public and Local Policymaker Preferences for Large-Scale Energy Project Characteristics,” which was published August 1 in Nature Energy. In their findings, based on survey responses from 894 Pennsylvanians and 206 policymakers from township, municipality, […]

Transitioning to 100% renewable energy globally would be cheaper and simpler using firebricks, a form of thermal energy storage with roots in the Bronze Age, to produce most of the heat needed for industrial processes, according to a new Stanford study. Today’s industries require high temperatures for manufacturing, which are achieved largely by continuously burning […]

Technology with roots going back to the Bronze Age may offer a fast and inexpensive solution to help achieve the United Nations climate goal of net zero emissions by 2050, according to recent Stanford-led research in PNAS Nexus. The technology involves assembling heat-absorbing bricks in an insulated container, where they can store heat generated by solar […]

Strong offshore winds have the potential to supply coastlines with massive, consistent flows of clean electricity. One study estimates offshore wind farms could meet 11 times the projected global electricity demand in 2040. The U.S. East Coast is an ideal location to capture this power, but there’s a problem: getting electricity from ocean wind farms to the cities […]