Bloomberg View: Renewable energy creating a much better world. In pictures.
Cheap renewable energy is a true revolution. It is as important as the tech revolution or the Green Revolution in agriculture.
Cheap renewable energy is a true revolution. It is as important as the tech revolution or the Green Revolution in agriculture.
Their discovery of how to pack five times as much energy into a battery is consistent with continuous improvements that flow when Moore’s Law gets a hold.
The Obama administration is giving the struggling U.S. nuclear industry a glimmer of hope with changes to its carbon emission rules that mean new reactors will count more toward meeting federal benchmarks.
It’s been big news this week: Elon Musk’s unveiling of his “home battery” is a remarkable project, which could bring massive change to “energy impoverished” countries.
New technical problems arising during the commissioning of Unit 6, the first of six 800 MW generation units at Eskom’s Medupi power station, may be placing South Africa’s electricity supply at risk.
Biznews.com editor Alec Hogg talks about the boardroom battle at PPC, a snap election in Japan, platinum fuel cells and why the airlines haven’t cut prices.
The recently announced deal struck with Russia for the supply of nuclear power plants “has all the hallmarks of the corrupt arms deal”, the Right2Know Campaign said on Friday. “The US50 billion deal is estimated to cost the country 20 times the arms deal, and this price is bound to go up once contracting is … Read more
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s nuclear cooperation deal signed this week with Russia is part of a tender process that will involve other competing countries and is not a contract to build power plants, government officials said on Tuesday. The Russian atomic agency Rosatom issued a statement on Monday saying that it had signed a … Read more
By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he would seal a civil nuclear deal to sell uranium to India on Friday, offering to ramp up supplies of energy to help the emerging Asian giant overcome chronic shortages. Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted Abbott with full state honours during his two-day visit … Read more
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s power utility Eskom has agreed a 75 million euro loan with the European Investment Bank to support its 100 MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plant, the company said on Thursday. “Eskom is committed to investing in projects that will diversify our energy mix, including renewable resources,” Eskom’s senior general manager for renewables Ayanda Nakedi said. … Read more