Renewables
Tesla strikes deal to buy cobalt from Glencore for EV plants
Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 7:03 AM MDT
Tesla Inc. will buy cobalt from Glencore plc, the world’s biggest miner of the metal, as the carmaker looks to…
Scotland launches $10 billion contest to build wind farms at sea
Thursday, June 11, 2020, 6:19 AM MDT
Scotland, home to a quarter of Europe’s offshore wind resources, is seeking proposals to install turbines off the coast in…
Floating wind farms could supply the world's electricity by 2040
Friday, June 5, 2020, 6:28 AM MDT
The turbine inventor Henrik Stiesdal is small in the shadows of gigantic curves of steel, watching workers weld towers that…
New York approves construction of state’s biggest wind farm
Thursday, June 4, 2020, 6:11 AM MDT
New York regulators approved the state’s largest wind farm to date on land, covering 30,000 acres southeast of Buffalo.The $454…
Oil major Total shifts to clean energy with U.K. wind farm stake
Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 12:07 PM MDT
French oil company Total SA has bought a 51 per cent stake from utility SSE plc in the development of…
Pandemic shows a low-carbon future in dire need of batteries
Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 6:15 AM MDT
Coronavirus has exposed a lack of investment in the big batteries crucial to unlocking solar and wind power.A drop in…
Old U.S. oil refinery to pursue new green life after crude crash
Tuesday, June 2, 2020, 7:07 AM MDT
In a sign of changing times, a U.S. oil refining company is converting one of its plants into a producer…
EDF Renewables, Enbridge and wpd begin construction of $2.2 billion offshore wind farm
Tuesday, June 2, 2020, 6:52 AM MDT
Electricite de France SA and its Canadian and German partners have finalized the funding of a 2-billion euro ($2.23 billion)…
China to dominate nuclear as Beijing bets on homegrown reactors
Tuesday, June 2, 2020, 6:45 AM MDT
China probably won’t hit its nuclear energy target this year, but that’s unlikely to derail a broader ambition to become…
Solar power will soon cost less than coal
Tuesday, June 2, 2020, 6:38 AM MDT
New solar and wind farms will soon cost less than many of the world’s coal-fired power plants, and governments should…
This won’t be U.S. solar’s best year ever—but it’ll be close
Tuesday, June 2, 2020, 6:30 AM MDT
This year was shaping up to be Sunnova Energy International Inc.’s best ever.California—already the biggest U.S. solar market — had…
U.S. renewables outstrip coal for first time since 19th century
Friday, May 29, 2020, 6:55 AM MDT
The U.S. consumed more energy from renewable sources last year than from coal, the first time that’s happened since the…
