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BP joins list of companies fleeing Alec
The oil giant is the latest company to cut ties with the conservative advocacy group known for its controversial stance on climate change. British Petroleum is the latest company to pull its membership from the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec),
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UK: Solar grows 93% in 2014 as renewables overtake nuclear
Official data from the U.K. government has confirmed that renewable energy contributed more to the grid than nuclear power for the first time ever in 2014. The statistics show that renewables accounted for 19.2% of electricity generation last year, ahead
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Air Pollution Raises Stroke Risk
Air pollution — even for just one day — significantly increases the risk of stroke, a large review of studies has found. Researchers pooled data from 103 studies involving 6.2 million stroke hospitalizations and deaths in 28 countries. The analysis, published
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Beijing to close all major coal power plants to curb pollution
Beijing, where pollution averaged more than twice China’s national standard last year, will close the last of its four major coal-fired power plants next year. The capital city will shutter China Huaneng Group Corp.’s 845-megawatt power plant in 2016, after
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Costa Rica is now running completely on renewable energy
Costa Rica is running without having to burn a single fossil fuel, and it’s been doing so for 75 straight days. Thanks to some heavy rainfall this year, Costa Rica’s hydropower plants alone are generating nearly enough electricity to power the entire
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Global Solar PV Capacity to Reach Nearly 500 GW in 2019, IHS Says
Total global solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity is forecast to reach 498 gigawatts (GW) in 2019, which is 177 percent higher than 2014, according to IHS (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight. While total global solar PV demand
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How Denmark is driving the transition to clean energy
Driving across the Danish countryside, they cannot be missed: towering white wind turbines as far as the eye can see, their slow-turning blades providing a 21st century counterpoint against the flat landscape of fields and farmhouses. Denmark has committed to
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Italian energy giant Enel commits to coal investment phase-out
Italian energy company Enel has announced that it will phase out its future investments in coal, becoming arguably the first large multinational utility to do so. Enel has also stated that it will lead the power industry to meet the global warming
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Shell alarms fossil fuel producers about risks of climate inaction
Oil giant Shell released its Strategic Report for 2014 on 12 March 2015, where it warns other investors that the emergence of increasingly stringent climate regulations will result in project delays and higher costs. This calls for major oil producers
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More coal plants are being cancelled than built
The global coal boom has started to slow, a new report says, as more plans for new power plants are now being shelved than completed. The number of cancelled coal projects across the world has outstripped those completed at a rate of
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