Gates established Breakthrough Energy Catalyst to accelerate the commercial viability of four key solutions to the climate crisis: green hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel, long-duration battery storage and carbon capture from the air. In practice, Catalyst will supply the cash needed to get capital-intensive projects off the ground, before debt financing and government funds can be raised to cover the remaining 90 per cent of the cost.

The majority of people in ASEAN want to shift away from polluting fossil fuels and embrace renewable energy to tackle climate change as floods, loss of biodiversity and sea level rise loom as the top three climate threats in the region, a survey of public attitudes released on Thursday (Sept 16) shows

The new law will make England the first country in the world to require all new homes to have EV chargers.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy took a big step towards achieving its stated goal of making wind turbines fully recyclable by 2040 by introducing what is known as the world’s first recyclable commercial turbine blade, the RecyclableBlade

Onshore wind farms with combined capacity of 7.4 GW supplied nearly 10% of Australia’s power in 2020, with a further 21 onshore wind farms with a total capacity of 4 GW due to start construction

Bill Gates wants to spend $1.5bn on clean technologies, including hydrogen, through a new partnership with the US Department of Energy

Longer blades, taller towers among the reasons wind power is growing in the US.

Chinese renewable energy infrastructure company MingYang Smart Energy just announced it is building an 800-foot-tall offshore wind turbine, the largest in the world.

Global offshore wind installations reached 34 GW by the end of June 2021. In total, 169 offshore wind farms are now up and running of which 110 are located in Europe, 57 in Asia and 2 in the USA.

As the world struggles to provide cleaner, less expensive energy sources, some countries are exploring more use of wind power as a key option.