As the Paris Olympics begins, Mark Charlton at De Montfort University tells us how sport is being affected by climate change.Rising temperatures and weather events like flooding and droughts are ...

After good progress globally since 2015, basic energy access reversed in recent years for the first time in a decade, says the IEA. The 2024 edition of “Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report” ...

Most read this week. Biden vs Trump: will the economics of Oil sway the U.S. presidential election? by Emilie Rutledge | posted on July 11, 2024 Concrete: 8% of global emissions and rising. Which ...

Today’s fossil energy system is very inefficient: almost two-thirds of all primary energy is wasted in energy production, transportation, and use, before fossil fuel has done any work or produced any ...

Inflows into ESG (environmental, social, and governance) funds remain strong, especially in Europe.That’s despite high interest rates and the boost to oil and gas from Russia’s invasion of ...

If offshore wind, why not offshore solar? It’s been talked about for a while and implemented on a small scale in places like Norway. You Xiaoying, writing for Dialogue Earth (formerly China Dialogue), ...

To triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030 while maintaining electricity security, energy storage needs to increase six-times. To facilitate the rapid uptake of new solar PV and wind, global ...

Most wind turbines are “horizontal axis,” pointing into the direction of the wind. “Vertical axis” turbines can capture wind energy from any direction, but current designs are less efficient and so ...

V2G (vehicle-to-grid) technology allows parked EVs to store and/or inject electricity into the grid when needed.The main benefit is to avoid the expense and disruption of building dedicated ...

Our electric future needs low-cost long-duration storage for grids. Per kWh, pumped hydropower is about $60, compressed air energy storage (CAES) costs from $150 to $300, and lithium-ion batteries ...

While these prices are well below the cost of alternative generation from gas or oil, they have been criticised as non-transparent and as not reflecting true costs, or incorporating elements of ...

The reason for this state of affairs is twofold. First, many raw materials needed for the realisation of the Green Deal objectives are simply not present in sufficient quantities in the EU. Secondly, ...