Renewable Energy

In the 2018 midterm elections, voters in several states cast ballots in favor of energy and natural gas development.

Anti-government protesters clashed with French police on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on Saturday, leaving the famed avenue shrouded in tear gas on another day of demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron.

U.S. Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is demanding that the U.S. commit to shifting 100% of its energy consumption to renewable energy as part of a “Green New Deal” she is demanding party leaders support.

“Donald Trump has broken the climate spell,” says a must-read article by Rupert Darwall. [Rather surprisingly, it’s in the NeverTrump Weekly Standard].

A California regulatory board has passed a regulation that will require all new homes built in the state to be powered by solar panels.

The greatest scam being perpetrated against taxpayers and consumers is renewable energy, according to a new analysis published by The Australian, greater even than Ponzi, Madoff and Enron.

California unions killed the Democrats’ last-minute push to force the state to adopt 100 percent renewable electricity production by 2046, over worries the nation’s highest utility costs are killing jobs.

The green movement is a religion rife with corruption, bad science and hysteria, and nuclear – not renewables – is the best solution to our energy needs.

The home of former vice-president and climate change activist Al Gore burns 34 times more electricity than the average American household, a report from National Center for Public Policy Research has revealed.

BERN (AP) – Swiss voters are supporting a referendum to withdraw the country from nuclear power in favour of renewable energy. A projection from Sunday’s referendum shows a majority of cantons (states) voted for the plan. Under Switzerland’s direct democracy system,

Over the course of last week’s Pac-12 basketball tournament, ESPN analyst and NBA Hall of Fame member Bill Walton crushed the coal industry during live broadcasts. While calling the games, Walton hammered fellow ESPN announcer Dave Pasch over his love of

Deep in the Negev desert in Israel, stands what will be the world’s tallest solar tower. Once complete, the tower will be 250 metres tall and encircled by 50,000 heliostat solar mirrors.

Britain is facing an unprecedented energy supply crisis thanks to its growing dependency on “intermittent” renewable energy, a top official at the country’s electricity and gas regulator has warned. Andrew Wright, a senior partner at Ofgem, told a recent conference

A leading solar power lobbying organization’s promises of growth in Texas continue to sit under a cloud of economic challenges. Amid cheap natural gas prices and established wind farms in much of the solar-friendly regions, solar panel arrays are proving a tough sell.

Located in the middle of a desert, this solar tower is part of a new generation of solar power technology and helping to cement Israeli’s position as a world leader in renewable energy. Developers hope the launch will energize the

(AFP) – A wind farm that would be the largest in the world and power more than a million homes has been given the go-ahead in Britain. Offshore wind developer Dong Energy said Wednesday a final decision had been made

Congressional leaders have averted a government shutdown and have set new policies, such as strengthening the visa waiver program, according to Reuters.

Yet another in a very long string of state and national polls shows that “climate change” is not a high priority for voters, and they haven’t paid much attention to the latest climate confab in Paris, which had a carbon footprint bigger than a thousand normal Americans living average lives for an entire year.

Actor and environmental activist Mark Ruffalo launched a Hollywood super group to pressure California Governor Jerry Brown to move the state away from using fossil fuels and exclusively toward renewable energy.

The British government’s devious, cynical, hypocritical energy policy has just unravelled horribly – with the leak to The Ecologist of a private ministerial letter which admits that Britain hasn’t a hope of meeting its legally-mandated “clean energy” targets. Officially, Britain’s line is that

Wind power now UK’s cheapest source of electricity – but the Government continues to resist onshore turbines. That was the headline in the Independent this time last week. I’m not suggesting for a moment that you’re an Independent reader but

A solar energy firm has quit the UK after complaining it doesn’t receive enough taxpayer-funded subsidies. Zep Solar UK, which is backed by billionaire inventor Elon Musk, accused the government of not doing enough to support the industry A spokesman

The British government has just announced plans to spend £6 billion of taxpayers money so that people in the Third World can buy more green energy in order to cope with ‘climate change’. Maybe it’s time the Conservatives changed their

Campaigners in Scotland are calling for a full, independent investigation into allegations that wind farms are contaminating water supplies across large areas of Scotland. They have written to the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Energy Secretary Amber Rudd calling for

Britain has doubled its usage of biomass to generate electricity in the space of a year – despite repeated warnings that the “renewable energy source” generates even more CO2 than traditional fossil fuels. New statistics from the Department for Energy

In a lively exchange in the House of Lords yesterday, the government admitted that the costs of renewable energy technologies far outstrip the benefits they deliver. Responding to a question put to him by Viscount (Matt) Ridley on the cost of

The Australian government has slashed its renewable energy generating targets by nearly 20 per cent in keeping with election campaign promises made by Prime Minister Tony Abbott. In the culmination of protracted negotiations over the last few months, the Australian

Actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio, whose own carbon footprint arguably rivals those of entire small communities, has joined forces with actor Mark Ruffalo to launch a campaign for clean energy.

A Scottish quango is handing out £2.4 million in subsidies to companies willing to try their hand at cracking the problem of wave power technology. The generous grants, of up to £300,000 per company, represent only the first round of spending

The UK wind farm industry has threatened the government with legal action if subsidies for renewable energy are pulled. Yesterday, a prominent renewables lawyer took to the Guardian to warn against the “wilful destruction” of the wind farm industry. His

Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has been warned to slam the brakes on the renewables sector or face having to find at least £1.5 bn a year in extra subsidies. A new report reveals that her predecessor Ed Davey, a renewables fanatic,

Germans in Cologne had a shock last weekend as several areas experienced black outs three times in 24 hours. One outage lasted for 45 minutes. Among other places hit in the region was the popular amusement park Phantasialand. German blogger

Thousands of mega-wind turbines more than double the height of Big Ben could be set up across Britain if the wind power industry gets its way. A “cost reduction task force” has argued that constructing more mega-turbines would bring down

By doubling the percentage of electric power generation that must be “renewable” by 2020 to 33 percent, California–with the highest poverty rate in the nation–will continue paying the highest utility rates in the nation.

Britain’s energy policy is on course to be “the most expensive domestic policy disaster in modern British history,” the Centre for Policy Studies has found. In a new report, author Rupert Darwell warns that Britain can either have renewable energy or