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The Dutch love to cycle. So much so that there are more than 35,000 km (over 56,000 miles) of cycle paths snaking through the Netherlands. Two of those bike routes have now been topped with photovoltaic cells to produce renewable energy while they face skyward.Construction company the BAM Royal Group and the Colas Group's Wattway subsidiary have joined forces to install the latter's Wattway Pack panels on 1,000 m2 of bike paths in the North Holland province and another 1,000 m2 in the North Brabant area.Unlike the…

Massive Attack are planning a one-day festival that will be powered by 100% renewable energy and act as a prototype for the music industry, which they believe is woefully behind where it should be on issues of sustainability.Founding member Robert Del Naja said promoters already have the technology available to dramatically reduce the environmental impact of the sector.“There’s always talk about ‘I’ll just wait for technology’, but the technology is available – there are ways of doing it,” he said. Del Naja, also known as…

Rapid renewables growth means that by 2030, the global electricity system will be capable of delivering ambitious net-zero pathways, according to new research by RMI, in partnership with the Bezos Earth Fund. By 2030, solar and wind (backed by battery storage) are forecast by RMI (a non-profit independent organization that was founded as the Rocky Mountain Institute) to supply over one-third of all global electricity, up from around 12% today. Globally, wind and solar need to grow from 12% to…

By Wiley July 3, 2023A new article posits that bamboo is a promising resource for sustainable energy due to its fast growth rate and capacity to absorb carbon dioxide, alongside the potential to be processed into bioethanol, biogas, and other bioenergy products.A new article published in the journal GCB Bioenergy explores why bamboo could be a sustainable, eco-friendly renewable energy source that could serve as an alternative to fossil fuels.The authors highlight bamboo’s rapid growth, its proficiency in carbon dioxide…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain One common rationale against climate action is that the resulting fossil fuel investment losses could impact people's retirement or long-term savings. However, researchers report in the journal Joule on June 22 that the loss of fossil fuel assets would have a minimal impact on the general populace. In high-income countries, most financial losses would be borne by the most affluent individuals…

A research team at PNNL has proposed a safe pathway to store and release clean energy based on the chemistry of baking soda. Credit: Composite image by Shannon Colson, Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryPNNL scientists investigate the promising properties of a common, Earth-abundant salt.In a world of continuously warmer temperatures, a growing consensus demands that energy sources have zero, or next-to-zero, carbon emissions. That means growing beyond coal, oil, and natural gas by getting more energy from renewable…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain National economies recover significantly faster from shocks when countries are powered by renewable energy sources, according to new research that has profound implications for global energy policy. Researchers from Trinity College Dublin looked for patterns in data from 133 systemic economic…

The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) says it has signed an agreement with Oando Clean Energy Limited (OCEL) to boost renewable energy access across Nigeria. REA, in a statement on Wednesday, said the signing is a result of the success of its recently held Solar Power Naija (SPN) investor matchmaking event. It said the MoU signing aims to boost collaboration between the private sector and government agencies towards deploying sustainable renewable energy access nationwide. The agency said as it continued to play…

Clean energy trailblazer Montgomery County, Maryland, has announced it’s building what will be the largest self-sustaining, renewable-powered bus depot in the US. The bus depot will be an Energy as a Service microgrid – that means it will offer various energy-related services to consumers in addition to supplying electricity. It’s known as Montgomery County’s Equipment Maintenance & Transit Operation Center, or EMTOC. The project, which was built by Boston-based Energy as a Service…

Humanity is at a crossroads in choosing the way we will power our future. Depending on what electricity infrastructure we build now, we could lock in still more decades of planet-warming emissions, or we could lay a solid foundation for a clean energy future and stave off the climate emergency’s worst effects. The choice is an urgent one because the window is quickly closing on our ability to meet the goal of the 2015 Paris climate agreement: keeping global temperature rise well below two degrees Celsius by the end of…