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The agency added that large global conflicts highlighted the need for investment to speed up the transition to cleaner energy.

Overcoming the barrier of heavy diesel backup generators in data centres will be crucial to reaching net zero targets for operators. Is green hydrogen the answer?

The ESA has been developing satellite technology to convert the Sun’s energy in space and transmit it back to the Earth.

Britain ended more than 140 years of coal power when it closed its last generator in September.

The transition to a greener society will involve huge investments in wind farms, electric cars and trains, new ways to heat homes, and much more. Yet the UK government is sending mixed messages over whether it intends to finance such projects at anything like the rate required.

In this commentary for the Miami Herald, Doyne Farmer, Baillie Gifford Professor of Complex Systems Science at the Oxford Martin School, writes about the rapid cost reductions of solar and wind technologies, and reminds the reader that we are ‘improving and adopting technologies that can we...

‘Vote of confidence’ by Iberdrola of Spain comes before the prime minister’s International Investment Summit

Photovoltaics (PVs) are a critical technology for curbing growing levels of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and meeting increases in future demand for low-carbon electricity. In order to fulfil ambitions for net-zero carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2eq) emissions worldwide, the global cumula...

Professor Laura Herz  has been awarded the Michael Faraday Medal and Prize for pioneering advances in the photophysics of next-generation semiconductors, accomplished through innovative spectroscopic experiments.