This archive tracks real progress in clean and renewable energy — from solar and wind expansion to grid upgrades and policy wins. Each story focuses on what’s working, where, and why it matters for people and the planet.
The new provisions are part of French president Macron’s large-scale plan to heavily invest in renewables, which aims to multiply by 10 the amount of solar energy produced in the country.
This decision puts Icelandair at the forefront of sustainable aviation, considering that many other airlines are only aiming to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
Irish company OceanEnergy has signed on to a four-year project to test, validate and commercialize he OE35, billed as the world’s largest capacity floating wave energy device, off the coast of Orkney, Scotland.
The German reinsurance group Munich Re will no longer invest in or insure the planning, financing, construction or operation of new oil and gasfields, new oil-fired power plants or developments in “midstream” oil infrastructure, beginning in April 2023.
For at least five hours on Friday, renewables accounted for 100 per cent of Greece’s power generation, reaching a record high of 3,106 megawatt hours.
Clean energy storage just took a major leap forward, and it happened without a single fossil fuel involved. China’s new compressed air facility in Zhangjiakou runs entirely on thermodynamic processes, storing up to 400 MWh and operating at 70.4% efficiency — well above the 40–52% typical of existing systems. That’s enough to supply more than 132 GWh to the local grid annually, while avoiding roughly 109,000 tons of CO₂ each year. Proving that utility-scale, non-lithium storage can work commercially gives the global clean energy transition a powerful new tool to build on.
Compared to traditional petroleum-based aviation kerosene, bio jet fuel can reduce carbon emissions by up to 50% throughout the entire lifecycle.
Longi Green Energy Technology Co., the world’s biggest solar technology manufacturer, will send panels into space as the first step in plans to test the feasibility of harnessing the sun’s power in orbit and transmitting it back to Earth.
French power producer HDF Energy is constructing a 3.1 billion Namibian dollar (USD $181.25 million) hydrogen plant powered by solar panels.
The move will make Tokyo the first prefecture in Japan to require that solar panels be installed on all new houses.
