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Scottish forest, for article on Scotland reforestation

2022 C.E. April 11

Scotland’s forests are the largest they have been for 900 years

Scotland's reforestation story just keeps growing: tree cover has tripled over the past century, climbing from under 6 percent of the country's land to roughly 18 percent today. That's close to forest levels not seen since medieval times. Behind the numbers are decades of work by government agencies, private landowners, and rewilding groups like Trees for Life, who've been steadily replacing fast-growing conifer plantations with native species like Scots pine, birch, and oak. Public...

Wind turbines at dusk, for article on floating solar auction

2022 C.E. April 7

Portugal’s floating solar energy auction sets world record negative price

Portugal's floating solar auction just made history with a negative price: one winning bidder agreed to pay the grid 4.13 euros per megawatt hour for the right to generate clean electricity over 15 years. EDP Renováveis pulled this off by bundling 70 megawatts of floating panels on Western Europe's largest artificial lake with wind power and battery storage, letting the profitable pieces carry the solar contract. The environment ministry estimates the auction will deliver...

Washington State Capitol in Olympia, for article on missing Indigenous people alert system

2022 C.E. March 31

Washington State launches first-in-the-nation missing Indigenous people alert system

Washington State's new alert system for missing Indigenous people is the first of its kind in the nation, modeled on the familiar Amber Alert and pushing notifications out through highway billboards, radio, and social media the moment a family reports a loved one missing. The law was championed by State Representative Debra Lekanoff, a member of the Aleut and Tlingit tribes, and inspired in part by the disappearance of Tulalip woman Mary Johnson-Davis in...

Solar panels amidst trees and bushes, for article on global wind and solar share

2022 C.E. March 30

Wind and solar generated a record 10% of the world’s power in 2021

Wind and solar power together generated 10.3% of the world's electricity in 2021, crossing double digits for the first time in history. That's a remarkable leap considering these two sources were barely a blip on the global grid just twenty years ago. Fifty countries now pull more than 10% of their power from wind and sun, with Denmark leading the pack at 52%. Even China, the world's largest electricity market, quietly joined the 10%...

Wind turbines, for article on recyclable wind turbine blade

2022 C.E. March 29

General Electric produces its first 100% recyclable wind turbine that can be reconstructed as it ages

Recyclable wind turbine blades just moved from concept to reality: a French-led consortium has built a 62-meter prototype in Ponferrada, Spain, designed to be fully broken down and reused at the end of its life. The secret is a thermoplastic resin called Elium, which can be chemically separated from its glass fibers so both materials return to the manufacturing stream as good as new. Engineers will now put the blade through structural lifetime testing...

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