Last week, energy consumption in Portugal was fully covered by solar, wind and hydro power over a 4-day period (107 hours), which lasted from 06:45 on Saturday May 7 until 05:45 the following Wednesday, national energy network figures reveal.
German-based utility RWE has announced a 2 per cent decrease in first-quarter profits to €857 million ($975 million), a total that comfortably betters market expectations.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said that the ongoing legal fight in the USA over regulating carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants won’t delay the nation’s accelerating shift to cleaner sources of energy.
The utility scale solar project developer, SolarReserve, has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Shenhua Group of China to construct 1 GW of solar projects in China.
Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (Dewa) has said that it has received five bids to build 800 MW of solar-powered generation capacity.
Continuing its dramatic growth in renewable energy, Duke Energy has raised its 2020 renewable energy goal by 33 per cent.