The latest company born out of General Electric Co. expects sales of its industrial engines fired by natural gas to benefit from the spread of renewables such as solar and wind.
GE's Latest Offspring Hopes to Ride Wind, Solar Microgrid Wave
Opportunity, Or What Happens When Utilities and Regulators Get Serious about Decarbonization
Obviously, the UK is a much smaller and more homogenous market than the United States, where energy policy is shaped to a large degree by state-level policy and market conditions. However, the UK does provide a significant model for accelerated change driven by a cohesive energy policy focused on rapid decarbonization in response to climate change. In addition to performance-based regulation, electrification of transportation is another top issue in the UK.
Floating tidal-power turbine generates 3 GWh of energy in its first year of testing
Scottish Power shifts to 100 per cent wind power after £702m Drax deal
How we can turn plastic waste into green energy
Plastics are among the most valuable waste materials – although with the way people discard them, you probably wouldn’t know it. It’s possible to convert all plastics directly into useful forms of energy and chemicals for industry, using a process called “cold plasma pyrolysis”.