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Scottish Power plans to build solar panels beside windfarms
This The Guardian article discusses how Scottish Power plans to build solar panels beside windfarms. Firm ‘squeezing maximum potential’ from clean energy sources to help UK hit net zero.
Scottish Power plans to squeeze more renewable electricity from its onshore windfarms by […]
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Yale Climate Connections, November 29, 2019 – Reports
This week’s articles include:
13 new books and reports about the future of food
UN report: Pollution from planned fossil fuel production would overshoot Paris climate goals
‘How do I talk about climate change at social gatherings?’
How […]
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Clean energy in the United Kingdom – 2 articles
This The Guardian article discusses Scottish Power plans to expand onshore windfarms. Renewable energy giant says it expects Tories to reverse their block on onshore generation. Scottish Power expects the Conservative party’s block on onshore generation to be cast aside in the next parliament due to the growing need for […]
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German wind power blown off course
This article discusses why the German wind industry is having problems. The German government and wind energy industry representatives have been meeting recently to hammer out a way of reinvigorating the sector. But the future of this once thriving industry is blowing in the wind.
Hermann Albers, the president of the German […]
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THIS WOOD IS KEY TO WIND POWER. TOO BAD THERE’S A SHORTAGE
This Ozy article discusses the importance of Balsa wood to wind power.
The rollout of new wind power projects could be delayed by a shortage of balsa wood.
Better known for its use in model aircraft, table-tennis rackets and surfboards, balsa is a key component of many wind turbine blade cores […]
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Report: First-of-a-kind U.S. grid cyberattack hit wind, solar
This E&E News article discusses a U.S. grid cyberattack that hit both wind and solar electric generation.
A Utah renewable energy developer was hit by a first-of-its-kind cyberattack that briefly cut contact to a dozen wind and solar farms this spring, according to documents obtained by E&E News under the […]
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Study: Offshore Wind Energy Could Generate Enough Electricity to Power the World. Will the U.S. Get on Board?
This Rolling Stone article discusses wind power. The International Energy Agency predicted offshore wind will be a $1 trillion industry by 2040.
Last week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicted a boom in renewable energy, forecasting the power capacity for renewable sources will increase 50 percent over the […]
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Study: Small Adjustments to Wind Turbines Can Reduce Impacts on Birds
This Yale Environment 360 article discusses how small adjustments to Wind Turbines can reduce impacts on birds.
About 150,000 birds are affected by wind turbines every year in the United States, from collisions with equipment to changes in bird habitats due to wind disturbance, construction, and other factors, according to […]
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Study: Offshore windfarms ‘can provide more electricity than the world needs’
This The Guardian article discusses offshore windfarms ‘can provide more electricity than the world needs’. Supplies from turbines will prove to be the next great energy revolution, IEA predicts.
Erecting wind turbines on the world’s best offshore sites could provide more than enough clean energy to meet global electricity demand, […]
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Has the wind been taken from the sails of Europe’s renewable future?
This article discusses whether the wind has been taken from the sails of Europe’s renewable future. Europe is a world leading region for wind energy. Yet there are storm clouds on the horizon for the renewable sector, with opposition growing across the continent, despite ongoing growth in some countries.
WindEurope, a […]
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