Domestic consumers have overtime become the biggest users of energy supplied through the national grid. Their share in energy consumption has gone up from 10% in 1970 to 43% in 2010. The share of industrial users has gone down in the same …Continue reading
Pakistan: A Renewable Energy State?
Access to clean, reliable and modern sources of energy is critical for achieving the targeted economic growth and development in a country. Without access to modern energy, it is not possible to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the seventeen-point global agenda adopted …Continue reading
Diversifying the Energy Basket
Clean technology and renewable energy is gaining momentum worldwide because of the increasing pressure on the limited nonrenewable resources for power, such as coal, petroleum and natural gas. Cleantech is a broad term that encompasses products and services that aim at pollution …Continue reading
MIT Technology Review Pakistan Partners With NewEnergy Global Startup Fest
The world’s top 100 startups from over 35 countries are gathering in Astana, Kazakhstan from the 26th to the 28th of October to showcase their ideas and products related to cleantech and renewable energy. Billed as the NewEnergy Global Startup Festival, the …Continue reading
2015 Was the Warmest Year on Record, and It Wasn’t Even Close
The numbers are in, and they are unforgiving: 2015 was the hottest year on record, and it wasn’t even close. The announcement was expected—scientists monitoring global temperatures predicted before the end of the year that 2015 would set a record for warmth, …Continue reading
This Climate Policy Could Save the Planet
International climate-change negotiators are focused on keeping global warming at or below 2 °C above historical levels—the limit beyond which the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the consequences of global warming will become catastrophic. But even though negotiators may have …Continue reading
Tax Credit Extension Gives Solar Industry a New Boom
The United States solar market is wrapping up the best three-month period in its history, with a total of three gigawatts worth of solar photovoltaics capacity forecast to be installed from October through the end of the year. In all, about 7.4 …Continue reading
“Plant Lamps” Turn Dirt and Vegetation into a Power Source
Researchers in Peru have a new way to capture electricity from plants and bacteria to help rainforest communities. Researchers at the Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC) have developed a technique for capturing the electricity emitted from plants. Actually, to be fair, …Continue reading
Wealthy Investors Target Dramatic Increase in Clean-Energy Funding
Starting off the Paris climate talks with a bang, an international group of investors headed by Bill Gates announced a new funding initiative, called the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, that will invest in clean-energy technologies. The coalition parallels a new government-backed investment program …Continue reading
Why Solar Power Could Hit a Ceiling
There could be a limit on how much solar power can grow. That’s because the more solar power we add to the grid, the less valuable it becomes. It’s a simple supply-and-demand story: solar reaches peak generation during sunny afternoons, but there’s …Continue reading
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