The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, the US President Barack Obama and the Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto jointly announced the creation of the North American Climate, Energy and Environment Partnership at the North American leaders’ summit, held...
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Experimental hybrid trucks hit the road in Sweden
Siemens are the driving force behind a new private initiative to launch electric trucks in an experimental test recently carried out on a Swedish motorway, as reported by manufacturing.net. Electric trucks powered by overhead lines can now travel on a 2 km section of...
China now world leader in solar PV technology
China is now the world's largest market for solar photovoltaic (PV) technology, with the latest statistics from the National Energy Administration (NEA) revealing that the country has a total installed capacity of 43.2 gigawatts (GW). The NEA's statistics...
New tender for offshore wind turbines in Dunkirk
Ségolène Royal, the French Minister for the Environment, Energy and Sea, has launched a third tender for the installation of an offshore wind farm off the coast of Dunkirk. This is an area identified as extremely favourable for this type of installation. The offshore...
Doubling renewable energy and generating huge savings
A report published last week by IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency, revealed that nearly 4.2 trillion (2.2 trillion) dollars could be saved each year by 2030 if the global energy mix contained two times more renewable energy than today. The report...
China looking to reduce energy consumption
China has published a five-year plan, according to Reuters, to keep energy consumption below 5 billion tons of coal equivalent by 2020. It is the first time that the economic superpower has announced such a fixed goal. Limiting energy consumption would enable China to...
2015 World energy market in numbers
The Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), the American Association of Professionals in new energy technologies (energy efficiency, renewable energy, biofuels, smart grids, etc.) has released the figures of the global energy market in 2015. The worldwide turnover is a new...
Ademe publish waste heat recovery guide
The French Agency for Environment and Energy Management has just put online a short document promoting waste heat recovery in industry. The two-page document summarizes in brief the challenges of recovering industrial waste heat, and informs stakeholders on the...
LED’s creating light pollution
LED bulbs are often acclaimed for the energy savings they deliver, even more so now at a time which has seen the previously prohibitive prize of LED bulbs fall to more affordable prices. Not surprisingly, many cities and towns have therefore chosen to install these...
Floating solar panels making waves in London
Lightsource Renewable Energy, a British company specializing in solar energy, have announced that construction has begun on what is believed to be the largest floating photovoltaic complex in Europe. Walton-on-Thames, a town located on the Thames, about 20 miles from...
