Power Engineering International: Figures reveal that more than 14,800 renewable energy patents were filed worldwide in 2017 – a 43 per cent rise on the 10,500 in the previous year. Data crunched by UK commercial law firm EMW found that patents filed for solar, wind, biofuels, hydropower, geothermal and waste-generated energy have almost doubled over […]
El Periódico de la energia: El Instituto para la Economía Energética y Análisis Financiero (Ieefa por sus siglas en inglés) ha publicado un informe de investigación que analiza las tecnologías disruptivas que impulsan un cambio global en la forma en que se genera la electricidad. El documento, titulado “Los siete cambios tecnológicos que impulsan la […]
Eco-Business: The evidence is getting harder to dispute. Clean energy can provide 100 per cent of society’s electricity needs. Current renewable energy technology is reliable 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and industries’ insistence on using coal and other polluting sources for fear of intermittency—the inability of renewable energy to ensure an […]
Texas Observer: Chalk this one up as another loss for the White House. Last month, American Electric Power (AEP) announced that it would close its 650-megawatt power plant in Vernon, a rural community of 11,000 just south of the Texas-Oklahoma line, by September 2020. The closure of the Oklaunion Power Station is the latest in […]