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Almost everything you know about clean energy is outdated “This is a different world from three years ago” — renewables are no longer “alternative energy.” Bloomberg New Energy Finance chair Michael Liebreich giving his keynote talk at the April BNEF Summit in New York City. Credit: J. Romm Renewables and efficiency have already won the battle for the future of ... Read More »

Global pension funds scout for deals in India’s solar power sector Some of the world’s biggest pension funds, seeking long-term returns on green investments, are scouting for deals in India’s solar power sector, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is targeting $100 billion in investment in the next five years. Power demand in Asia’s third-largest economy is set to surge as ... Read More »

How Leading Solar Panels Stack Up Against the Competition n the battle to win business in the solar industry, solar manufacturers have to find a way to differentiate themselves. Cost and efficiency are two of the biggest differentiators, and in the utility segment, a larger panel size can make installation more efficient as well. Below, I’ve pulled the data sheet ... Read More »

 Ramsey energy company finds perfect pairing in putting bees, solar panels together Instead, wildflowers will soon bloom beneath the sleek solar panels in Ramsey, offering food to bees from 15 hives recently installed nearby. The colonies will produce honey by the jarful for Connexus Energy’s solar subscribers, with enough left over for local fundraisers. Pairing native plants with solar arrays ... Read More »

Solar Power Is Cheaper, but the World Is Still Running on Fossil Fuels The Price Of Power Even without subsidies, new wind and solar power plants are usually cheaper than new coal, nuclear, or natural gas power plants. In fact, they are often not only cheaper, but substantially so. According to Lazard, levelized cost of energy (LCOE) estimates based on ... Read More »

5 climate change challenges India needs to wake up to In the lead up to the anniversary of the signing the Paris Climate Agreement we need to re-assess climate change–induced national risks. On the 46th Earth Day, April 22, 2016, at the UN Secretariat in New York, in a record pact, several nations committed to slowing down the emission of greenhouse ... Read More »

9 things you absolutely have to know about global warming Chances are you won’t make it in person to the March for Science in Washington DC, but you can be part of the ongoing Earth Day campaign to educate everyone about climate change, and its unprecedented threat to our planet. The theme of this year’s Earth Day, on 22 April, ... Read More »

NASA’s night time satellite images show huge growth of Indian cities New satellite imagery released Thursday by NASA shows the vast growth of Indian cities in recent years. Huge swaths of northern India, relatively dark in 2012 night shots, are lit up by huge new urban areas in imagery from 2016. According to the Oxford Economics Global City Forecast, of ... Read More »

How vertical farming reinvents agriculture In an old carpet factory on the outskirts of the Belgian city of Kortrijk, an agricultural upheaval is being plotted: growing crops indoors, not out on a farm, stacked layer after layer under candy-coloured lights in an area the size of a studio flat. It’s called vertical farming, and several companies have sprung up over ... Read More »

Solar water pumps gain popularity in remote villages JAIPUR Water pumps run on solar energy are increasingly becoming popular among farmers in the remote corners of Rajasthan, where electricity supply is erratic. The development aims to benefit both the farmers and the government in more ways than one. While the farmers will no longer have to depend on the erratic ... Read More »