Flying start for European wind power

New figures out today show Europe's wind energy industry enjoyed a strong start to 2019. In the first six months of the year, 4.9GW of new wind energy capacity was added, up from the 4.5GW during the same peri...

Kenyan windfarm a record-breaker

Kenya has 'scored another first in Africa', President Uhuru Kenyatta said, at the official opening of the continent's largest wind farm project this month. The Lake Turkana Wind Power farm, located around 6...

Scaling Solar in Senegal

Construction on two major solar power plants in Senegal are due get underway thanks to the support of a World Bank initiative. The 'one stop shop' services provided through the Scaling Solar programme will ...

La Crosse passes clean power goal

Five cities in Wisconsin are now committed to transitioning to 100% clean power, the Sierra Club reports, following La Crosse's decision do so by 2050. Welcoming the announcement, City Council Member Larry ...

Time to mainstream ocean energy

The Ocean Energy Europe (OEE2019) conference later this year will provide a springboard to stakeholders striving to realise the potential of the sector. We are media partners with the two-day event, which w...

Clean power investments fall…for now

A slowdown in renewable energy investments in China during the first half of 2019 contributed to an overall global fall, according to BloombergNEF (BNEF). The $117.6 billion invested worldwide this year repres...

‘Humanising the energy transition’

The first female President of Ireland - and leading human rights ambassador - Mary Robinson will give the keynote at EIT InnoEnergy's flagship annual event. Undoubtedly one of the most important dates in the c...

Switch on the renewables revolution

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Ocean Energy Europe ticket offer

The Ocean Energy Europe Conference & Exhibition (OEE2019) is in Dublin this autumn. It is the continent's premier event for industry stakeholders, and one we are media partners with. Nobody needs an inc...

Time to think wind turbine recycling

A new European cross-sector platform has been set up to progress innovative methods for recycling wind turbine blades. With thousands due to be decommissioned over the next five years, WindEurope, Cefic (the E...