E.ON follows people`s movement
Germany’s largest utility company announced its break up yesterday: In order to focus wholly on renewable energy, E.ON is spinning off its fossil fuel power plants into a separate company. With the...
View ArticleWe are still waiting for 100% Renewable Energy
While delegates are negotiating until late hours in Lima, we already know that the past two weeks signal an important shift in fighting climate change: For the first time in 20 years of climate...
View ArticleMomentum in Morocco for 100% Renewable Energy?
Morocco, the fifth largest economy in Africa, and the host of 2016 Marrakesh Climate Conference (COP 22), is clearly making a steady progress to transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy....
View ArticleWhere is Europe on its way to 100% Renewable Energy?
How do you know that the world is changing? The following facts might give you an indication: Renewable energy broke another record last year, accounting for over 60% of net addition to the world’s...
View ArticleThe sun rises in Java
Dirty industrialization or green electricity? Populous emerging countries are facing this important decision. In cooperation with Greenpeace, an indigenous community in the jungle of Indonesia...
View ArticleRenewable energy: untapped fuel for Mediterranean economies
Despite the fact that in the sunniest region of Europe there is a vast potential of energy from the sun (and wind), renewable energy is a resource that is being ignored. In a time when Southern...
View ArticleCities For Climate at COP21 in Paris
While national negotiators work to broker a climate deal in Paris, mayors from around the world showed yesterday that a global movement of local climate action is already underway. At the Climate...
View ArticleDespite a weak outcome: Paris was first “renewables COP”
The UN Climate Conference in Paris was a test to see whether national politicians could keep up with the change we are seeing in the real world. Looking at the final agreement published today, one must...
View ArticleAfrica will lead by example in the Renewable Energy transformation
The Paris agreement has been widely praised as an historic agreement, as “the world’s greatest diplomatic success”. For the first time, all nations have come together “to curb emissions, strengthen...
View ArticleThe new DNA of future energy markets
How the transition of the global energy sectors challenges the world as we know it. And why this is good news! Authors: Anna Leidreiter and Stefan Schurig Delegates from more than 130 countries and...
View ArticleRegional Cooperation: A Solution to the European Renewables deadlock?
If one municipality in let`s say Germany produces more renewable electricity than it needs and the neighboring municipality in e.g. the Netherlands wants to use it: Does that work? Melinda...
View ArticleParliamentarians can revive German Energiewende
Last week, the German government approved some fundamental amendments to the renewable energy law (the EEG 2016). After the 16 States adopted an overhaul of the famous German Renewable Energy Source...
View ArticleOxford County`s Plan to realize 100% Renewable Energy by 2050
“How do we get to 100% Renewable Energy by 2050 in the County of Oxford? One of the strategies is to look beyond our borders.” This is why Jay Heaman, Manager of Strategic Initiatives and David...
View ArticleSeizing the Solar Energy Revolution in Tanzania
When Ajuna Kagaruki and her husband built their new house in Mabwepande, a suburb of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, it was not an option to wait for the government to connect the area to the national grid....
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