Why Uruguay is the Cinderella of renewable energies
Il Paese ha raggiunto il 95 per cento di produzione di elettricità da fonti rinnovabili, in poco più di 10 anni. Ecco come c’è riuscito.
A mega solar plant in Morocco will bring energy to 1 million people
Located outside the city of Ouarzazate, the plant will have a surface area equivalent to that of Morocco’s capital, Rabat and will generate 580 megawatts (MW) of electricity, the BBC reports. It employs a large number of moveable mirrors that can follow the sun’s path and harness sunlight to melt salt contained inside the structure’s circuit.
Every other plant being built is powered by renewable energy. 2015 has been a good year
La metà delle nuove centrale elettriche installate quest’anno è rinnovabile. La strada verso la transizione energetica è presa, ma il tempo stringe.
COP21. India leads Solar Alliance of 121 countries
L’iniziativa è stata lanciata alla Cop 21 dal governo dell’India. L’obiettivo è permettere lo sviluppo del solare nelle nazioni situate tra i due tropici.
Costa Rica and Australia, the goodies and baddies of climate change
Il futuro del nostro pianeta dipende dalle azioni che i paesi, grandi e piccoli, intraprendono per ridurre le emissioni. Ci sono stati virtuosi ma anche chi è rimasto indietro.
Texas is giving wind energy away
It seems quite impossible that such news comes from one of the US states most known for oil. As an article of the New York Times reports, some Texas electricity companies are giving electricity away from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. to thousands of customers. This happens because windparks operating in the state
With E-Kaia we can source electricity from plants
Small mobile devices can also be charged with plant-extracted electricity. You just need to connect them to an E-Kaia charger.
Ocean tides will supply electricity to over 155,000 British families
The estuary of the River Severn lies in the southwest of Great Britain, in Wales’s Swansea Bay. It has the world’s second highest tide range, the difference between high and low tide, which is most acute in spring. What better place than this to build a plant that uses ocean tides to generate electricity? The
The final frontier in battery technology. Sustainable, cheap, made from rhubarb
One of the great limitations of renewable energy is intermittence: output is hard to forecast because electricity production depends on unpredictable factors such as the wind blowing or the sun shining. The solution would be to use batteries to store energy but these are expensive and harmful to the environment. Now, thanks to research conducted
From El Hierro to Cape Verde. The islands investing in renewables to combat climate change
A poco meno di un mese dalla Cop21, le isole si candidano a diventare laboratorio per le rinnovabili, in prima linea per contrastare i cambiamenti climatici.