by Beth Holmes | Sep 5, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Green Energy, Sustainability
Ten counties in Ohio have passed laws banning the development of new infrastructure-scale wind and solar projects, in the past year. In October last year, Ohio passed a state law granting the veto power over renewable energy sites to local voters. Worth noting, voters...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 4, 2022 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Green Energy, Sustainability
An offshore wind farm and three environmental organizations have entered an agreement to protect right whales while developing green infrastructure. South Fork Wind is a large wind farm currently being built offshore from Rhode Island and Long Island. When it’s...
by Admin | Apr 24, 2020 | Green Energy
In Iowa, 3.18 million people and all of their industry use an estimated 46 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity a year. A 2014 report by the state’s energy commission reported that 23 coal-powered plants produced the majority of that energy, approximately 36 TWh. But...
by Admin | Aug 12, 2019 | Green Energy, Sustainability
Over the past 40 years, advances in adapting wind energy technology and improvements in predicting wind conditions have created significant growth in the use of wind turbines for electricity. A new report published in Applied Physics Reviews takes stock of where the...
by Admin | Nov 7, 2014 | Articles, Green Energy
A number of new studies on renewable energy show that developing countries are investing in renewable energy projects at twice the rate of developed nations. A recent study by Climatescope found that 55 developing nations including China, Brazil, South Africa,...
