A new ‘low-carbon’ ETF set up by Blackrock last week became the biggest launch in the…
Renewable Energy
UK to house first blue hydrogen power plant
The UK looks set to become home to the world’s first large-scale power station to burn…
EU taxonomy rule book may classify gas as sustainable investment
Gas-fuelled plants that generate power as well as heating or cooling could be classified as sustainable…
Record wind turbine orders defy COVID gloom
Driven primarily by some frenetic activity in the US and China as well as the relentless…
Vineyard Wind to breathe life into US clean energy sector
The 800 MW $3bn Vineyard Wind 1 Massachusetts offshore project edged closer to obtaining US Government…
Italy sovereign green bonds hit jackpot
Italy’s first sovereign green bonds raised a record $8.5bn from the sustainable debt market today, with…
Shell points to greener, leaner future as its past catches up
It has been an eventful few days for Royal Dutch Shell. On Thursday, the company unveiled…
India faces $1.4trn clean energy bill – IEA
India will need to invest $1.4 trillion in clean energy technology over the next 20 years,…
NSW green energy superpower ambitions get $4.2bn boost
New South Wales (NSW)’s ambitions to become a green energy superpower moved one step closer to…
High-voltage transmission to turn Big Apple green
bidding opened last week for several high-voltage transmission projects to New York City from clean emergy…
India’s Essar in $1bn UK hydrogen JV
The Essar Group has announced that it is partnering up with clean-energy specialists Progressive Energy to…
UK leads race for hydrogen heating
Behind industry and ground transport, household boilers are the third biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in…
POSCO joins steel industry’s hydrogen pioneers
Korean steelmaker POSCO has announced plans to increase its current annual hydrogen production capacity from 7,000…
Japanese energy goals blowing in the offshore wind
Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshi Kajiyama this week announced ambitious plans to transform…
Denmark calls time on North Sea oil and raises the bar for Boris
Denmark called time on its North Sea oil industry yesterday when the Regeringen in Copenhagen ratified…
Carney calls for $100bn carbon offset market
The development of a $100bn global carbon offset market in place was ‘imperative’ if the private…
Ørsted and BP boost German green hydrogen drive
Hopes that green hydrogen could help Germany reach its carbon emission goals have been boosted by…
Grand Renaissance Dam in doubt as Ethiopia edges towards civil war
Ministers from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia launched a new round of talks on the Grand Ethiopian…
Boris Johnson’s Grand Green Dream
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled an ambitious green manifesto in a bid to re-energize…
Cheer for UK EV industry as Johnson speeds up petrol ban
In a boost for the UK EV industry, Johnson is to speed up ban of fossil…
Biden’s $2trn boost for US clean energy industry
With Joe Biden set to take over occupation of the White House next January, the US…
Iberdrola pledges €75bn as clean energy revolution picks up pace
Hot on the heels of of its $8bn acquisition of Albuquerque’s PNM Resources, Spanish energy giant…
Future brightens for hydrogen fuel cells
Will hydrogen soon become a major source of clean energy? A Brussels-based lobby group called The…