renewable electricity

Located in the Nevada desert which is just a few hundred miles north of Las Vegas lays a renewable energy plant containing the most advanced solar energy technology currently in existence. The plant named Crescent Dunes quite possibly resembles a scene from a sci-fi movie which are frequently situated in a remote desert setting. The plant is constructed from a...

In the UK a majority of our electricity is generated from burning ‘dirty’ fossil fuels including oil, gas and coal. This in itself contributes to one of the most harmful effects on climate change. Over recent times, encouragingly we have overseen our energy make up shifting towards a far greater and greener carbon free structure year on year. Back in...

National grid data reveals that within the UK coal generated electricity fell to zero on a number of occasions last week. Last Thursday the UK saw a record a breaking plummet in coal generated electricity. For more than half a day coal ceased producing electricity leading to a zero input in the UK’s electricity mix. According to the Financial times...

As clever as solar energy is, it is still not as consistent as we would like it to be. Of course when the sun isn’t shinning they do still generate electricity however at a vastly reduced amount. Nonetheless a groundbreaking breakthrough has recently been discovered through the combination of solar and hydrogen power. The concept dubbed ‘Hydricity’ derived from the...