Reducing coal usage and making permits easier has helped renewables become “the backbone of the system” in Germany.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) reports that Germany generated 72.2 TWh of solar in ...

Whether or not new coal plants are under construction is a question of national energy policy and isn't proof of how CO2 molecules behave in the atmosphere. 'Overwhelming' evidence human CO2 ...

The most recent coal plants to enter the construction phase in the OECD broke ground in 2019. Its 1GW of capacity remains under construction today. The 111GW of proposals in 2015 listed in the GCPT ...

Environmental activists have been pressing the company buying an Ohio coal plant said to be the nation’s deadliest to retire the facility. But that seems unlikely, given statements it made in a ...

Environmental journalist Marco Visscher discusses his book about the history of nuclear energy and why It would be "ridiculous" not to use it.

Germany looks likely to fall behind in its push to phase out coal power plants by 2030 after a plan to expand gas-fired alternatives was canceled. While Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government ...

For Christos Kapetanakis, a restaurant owner in Athens, high rent has always been a challenge, but now he contends with what ...

For Athens restaurant owner Christos Kapetanakis, rent has always been high, but now he faces what he calls "a second rent" as soaring electricity bills slash profits and force him to raise prices.

To power their industrializing economies, a few nations are using more coal. The rest of the world is moving in the opposite ...