Headline News:
- “Offgrid communities: using renewable energy to live independently” • According to CE Delft’s report, The Potential of Energy Cities in the European Union, by 2050 almost half of all European Union households could help to produce renewable energy, with off-grid communities contributing 37% of this amount. [Power Technology]
Turbines on the island of Eigg (Photo: WL Tarbert)
- “New Jersey utility proposes $4 billion plan to advance state’s clean energy goals” • PSE&G, New Jersey’s largest regulated utility, has a $4 billion plan to make the Garden State greener and advance the state’s bid to become a clean energy leader. Its six-year plan, Clean Energy Future, aims to reduce both costs and emissions. [CNBC]
- “Solar & Wind Energy Destined To Expand Faster Than Other Global Energy Sources” • Global market analyst DNV GL peeled back the layers of its recent forecast on global energy source evolution to show that solar and wind energy will grow, buoyed by offshore wind, to represent nearly 70% of global electricity production by 2050. [CleanTechnica]
- “Renewables produces almost a third of UK power in Q2” • Between April and June, renewables provided a record 31.7% of the UK’s electricity generation. The low-carbon share fell slightly compared to the same period in 2017, to 53.4%, as a result of outages in nuclear power plants. Coal power also fell to a record low of just 1.6%. [Energy Voice]
- “Businesses Push California Toward Another Clean Economy Governor” • California business groups say it is critically important that the next governor endorse California’s ambitious new emissions-free electricity law and Governor Jerry Brown’s executive order that sets the goal of a carbon-neutral state economy by 2045. [CleanTechnica]
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September 28 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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