Hyundai is recalling its Kona electric cars, including in New Zealand, due to a battery fault which poses a fire risk. The 2019 Hyundai Kona Electric Vehicle. Photo: Drew Angerer / Getty Images / AFP The company says it identified a problem in s... Read more
On Saturday, Varun Sivaram — senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy — spoke at the TED Countdown Global Launch, a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. The event fe... Read more
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) has appointed Francesco Starace, chief executive officer and general manager of Enel, as the chair of the administrative board. With less than 10 years to meet SDG7, and with increasing urgency for th... Read more
Offshore wind farms in the North Sea could soon be connected to both the UK and Dutch energy systems under a new agreement between National Grid Ventures and Dutch transmission system operator TenneT. The UK Government has recently said it aims... Read more
The South African Wind Energy Association (Sawea) was reacting to the National Energy Regulator’s (Nersa) endorsement of the ministerial determination to procure additional power of just over 11,800 megawatts. Renewable energy production from wi... Read more
Only 10% of global energy utility companies are expanding their renewable energy capacity at a faster rate than their gas or coal-fired capacity. That is the main finding of a study by Galina Alova from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Env... Read more
Ne Clean energy firm ReNew Power and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have signed a partnership agreement to promote increased access to renewable energy and improved energy efficiency. ReNew Power will partner with UNEP’s District Ener... Read more
Puerto Rico sits in the eye of what’s been the busiest hurricane season on record with an old and historically unreliable power system. The all-too-common occurrence of blackouts left more than 400,000 people in San Juan in the dark hours before... Read more
The coronavirus pandemic has created a supply and demand crisis for oil and gas worldwide as lockdown restrictions continue to mount. The demand for oil has reduced by 23 million barrels per day since March 2020, consequently creating an imbalan... Read more
Oil prices drifted lower on Thursday as concerns about renewed COVID-19 lockdowns in the United States outweighed signs of a recovery in U.S. gasoline demand. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 14 cents, or 0.3%, to $40.76 a b... Read more
