Environment

A Joe Biden win could mean clean energy stocks stay in the green. With the 2020 election less than a month away and the former vice president leading President Donald Trump in polls, clean energy stocks are trading like a Democratic victory is imminent, with the Invesco Solar ETF (TAN) up over 131% year to date

October 7th, 2020 by Guest Contributor  The Maid of the Mist, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, New York Power Authority, and ABB announced today that the Maid of the Mist, the iconic boat tour that has navigated the waters below Niagara Falls since 1846, has launched the first two

October 7th, 2020 by Michael Barnard  Saskatchewan isn’t just a hard-to-spell Canadian province, but also an interesting and unfortunate outlier in the country. Chart courtesy Government of Canada As this shows, it’s one of the few provinces with substantially increasing CO2 emissions as opposed to recent declines. But that’s not the entire story. While it’s

Wind turbines in the Irish Sea, in waters near the town of Llandudno, in Wales. VladCa | iStock | Getty Images U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that he wanted the country to become the “world leader in low cost clean power generation.” Speaking at the Conservative Party annual conference, which was delivered

October 6th, 2020 by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai  The majority of vehicles (ICE or EV) that are imported into most of sub-Saharan Africa are used vehicles from Europe, Asia, and America. Record EV sales are being registered across several key source markets such as Germany for left-hand drive vehicles and the United Kingdom for right-hand drive

Energy stocks are showing rare strength this week as oil rallies. The XLE energy ETF is up 4% over the past two days, though remains down nearly 50% this year. The sector is easily the worst performer in 2020. Todd Gordon, founder of TradingAnalysis.com, said the group could slowly be turning a corner as the

October 6th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan  Community solar power and community choice aggregation are two of the hot trends in the US solar energy industry. Now, more residents of New York are getting access to the community solar power and community choice aggregation. Six Rockland County municipalities are offering residents and small businesses cheaper clean,

October 5th, 2020 by Steve Hanley  A study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which is part of the US Department of Energy, suggests that if floating solar panels are deployed on the more than 379,000 hydro reservoirs globally, the resultant hybrid systems could generate anywhere from 16% to 40% of the world’s demand for

October 5th, 2020 by Sponsored Content  Is This Metal Destined to Replace Lithium and Transform Everything from the Mining Industry to Long Duration Energy Storage and Much More? You probably have seen this happen repeatedly: A company comes out with a breakout product but then is quickly replaced by something even better. This process is

There could be upside in store for the market’s worst-performing sector. S&P 500 energy stocks have underperformed the index’s 10 other sectors over a range of time frames including in Tuesday’s trading session, this week, this month, this year and over the last 12 months. The group has encountered numerous headwinds in 2020, not least

October 4th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan  After digging into an old spreadsheet to create a new report on top solar power states per capita, it crossed my mind to compare the results from the first half of 2020 with the results from 2012, which is the last time I had published such a report before

The Johan Sverdrup oil field in the North Sea, operated by Equinor, is the third-largest oil field on the Norwegian continental shelf, with 2.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Equinor is planning to cut the carbon-intensity of energy products it sells by at least 50% as part of the energy transition related to climate change.

October 4th, 2020 by Michael Barnard  Weighing The Administrations of Obama, Trump & Biden: The CleanTechnica Climate Policy Report Card As we approach the momentous US federal election of 2020, American voters must weigh long-range concerns against short-term issues, and domestic matters against foreign policy. Concerns for Americans today and tomorrow, and concerns for other

Cell phones, tablets, laptops, smartwatches: the modern world is packed with a dizzying array of gadgets that bring us connectivity, entertainment and information. Our hunger for the latest models – and the cachet that buying them brings – is such that these pieces of kit have, for some, become readily disposable. This “throwaway” culture often

Elon Musk guest appearance on CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.” The renewable energy credit market has created a trade in which Tesla competitors have been compelled to buy zero emissions compliance from Musk’s company, or as one renewable energy expert put it, “The last thing a company wants to do is pay their competitor

October 3rd, 2020 by Steve Hanley  After analyzing the most recent data from two of America’s largest electricity markets — ERCOT in Texas and PJM in the Northeast — the Rocky Mountain Institute has come to a startling conclusion. Renewables are muscling in on natural gas as the preferred choice for new electricity generation. In