Energy

Uzbekistan has unveiled more than 40 new renewable energy projects worth around €9.6bn, including generation, storage, and network facilities.  The country’s president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, announced the new projects at the “Powering the Future: Sustainable Energy for New Uzbekistan” forum in Tashkent last week.  The plans include 16 renewable solar, wind and hydroelectricity generation projects with … Read more

Irish wind farms hit a new record high for energy production, producing enough energy to power more than 2 million homes.  At 9:30 local time on December 5th, 4671MW was being produced by wind power installations across the country, beating a previous all-time high set in March last year. Wind energy is currently Ireland’s largest … Read more

Los Angeles has now fully divested from coal after the city’s final coal-powered energy source ceased operations at the end of November.  The United States’ second-largest city, home to almost 3.9 million people, still receives electricity produced using natural gas at the Intermountain Power Project (IPP) in Utah but the station’s coal-fired facilities were shuttered … Read more