All posts tagged: Clean

The Clean Energy Transition as a European transformative strategy

The Clean Energy Transition as a European transformative strategy

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Stella Tsani, Associate Professor Department of Economics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, explores the necessity of collaboration and equality in the Clean Energy Transition. Europe’s clean energy transition is accelerating. In 2025, wind and solar reached 30% of EU electricity, overtaking for the first time fossil power (29%). Yet the benefits and costs of decarbonisation remain unevenly distributed across regions and communities. In 2025, 92.7 million people in the EU (20.9% of the population) were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Europe’s energy transition will succeed only if it strengthens social cohesion, industrial competitiveness and inclusive governance. Fairness and cohesion-oriented policies and investments for a successful energy transition The European Union has made significant progress towards clean energy transition. Renewable energy deployment is accelerating, fossil fuel dependence is declining, and clean technologies are reshaping the industrial systems. Yet the transition remains highly uneven across European regions. Coal-dependent areas, carbon-intensive industrial clusters and rural communities continue to face disproportionate economic and social pressures linked to decarbonisation. The challenges of the energy transition in …

How to keep your teeth dentist-level clean without flossing

How to keep your teeth dentist-level clean without flossing

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If you’re fiber maxxing, dodging microplastics, and working out, but putting in the bare minimum on your oral health routine, you’re missing a crucial piece of the puzzle.  A growing body of research shows that issues like gum disease may cause inflammation and send bacteria into the bloodstream, potentially contributing to more serious health issues down the line. In other words, dental hygiene is integral to whole body health.  The good news is that optimizing your oral health at home is much easier than putting in reps at the gym. One of the simplest level-ups to your twice-daily brushing is the COSLUS E40 10-Speed Roll Control Oral Irrigator. A comfortable, effective way to improve your oral hygiene Here’s why.  Remove debris and reduce plaque comfortably and easily A big reason so many of us skip flossing is that it’s uncomfortable and can be a challenge to reach all of those cracks and crevices as thoroughly as we should. The COSLUS E40 10-Speed Roll Control Oral Irrigator is gentle, easy to use, and incredibly effective. Just …

Clean hydrogen can plug the gaps in a decarbonised energy system

Clean hydrogen can plug the gaps in a decarbonised energy system

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From long-term storage and flexibility to hard-to-abate sectors and data centres, a thriving clean hydrogen sector will offer much-needed solutions in the net zero energy system of the very near future. EU leaders and Member States will be rewarded if they persevere through the current regulatory challenges. As renewable generation scales rapidly across Europe, policymakers are increasingly confronting a parallel challenge: how to store variable, intermittent energy over long periods, how to decarbonise industries that cannot simply plug into the grid, and how to meet the ever-increasing power demands of the digital economy. In each of these areas, a thriving clean hydrogen sector can play its role to help achieve a sustainable, circular, and energy-sovereign economy. Storage and flexibility One of the defining characteristics of renewable energy is variability. Wind and solar generation fluctuate with weather conditions and seasons, creating increasing pressure on electricity systems to balance supply and demand. Batteries will play an important role in short-duration storage, but they are not designed to provide energy security over weeks or months. This is where …

US clean energy is booming and unraveling at the same time

US clean energy is booming and unraveling at the same time

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Volkswagen ID.4 production at Chattanooga, TN (Source: VW) Clean energy developers announced more than 50 new utility-scale solar, wind, and battery storage projects in Q1 2026 as companies scramble to get projects moving before a looming federal deadline tied to Trump’s big bill act passed last year. According to new data from E2’s latest “Clean Economy Works” report, developers announced 54 new large-scale renewable energy projects between January and March, nearly double the number of active projects announced during all of 2025. The projects represent more than $18 billion in planned investment and would add over 12 gigawatts (GW) of new electricity generation and storage capacity to the grid – enough to power around 2 million homes. The report underscores something the industry has been warning about for months: Developers are rushing to break ground before federal clean energy tax incentives become harder to access under new rules tied to the OBBA. Companies are trying to move quickly ahead of a July 4 deadline that could make future projects far more difficult to finance. Advertisement …

The state of clean trucking with Joe Annotti

The state of clean trucking with Joe Annotti

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On this really quick episode of Quick Charge, we spend time with TRC Senior Director and ACT Expo co-founder Joe Annotti to talk about the state of clean trucking in 2026, incentive programs, and ever so briefly talk about why Autocar was my favorite OEM at this year’s show. We’ve got a roundup of the best, electric-only ACT Expo 2026 stories in the source links, below, along with one or two extra points Joe and I touched on during the interview. Enjoy! Source Links Prefer listening to your podcasts? Audio-only versions of Quick Charge are now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are (allegedly) recorded several times per week, most weeks. We’ll be posting bonus audio content from time to time as well, so be sure to follow and subscribe so you don’t miss a minute of Electrek’s high-voltage podcast series. Advertisement – scroll for more content Got news? Let us know!Drop us a line at tips@electrek.co. You can also rate us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or recommend us in Overcast to help …

The Best Way to Clean Glasses, According to Experts

The Best Way to Clean Glasses, According to Experts

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We don’t always have the answers, but we have some people on speed dial who do — which is why we present to you our series FYI where we have experts explain if lip balm is actually bad, how often you should wash your hair and more. If you wear glasses, you know just how annoying smudges can be. In fact, it can be nearly impossible to focus on whatever you’re looking at. Plus, if you use the wrong products to clean eyewear, it can compromise their quality over time, which leads to more costs down the road. To keep your glasses clean without ruining them, it’s best to use cleaners that don’t have “alcohol, harsh chemicals, perfumes and scents,” says Sheena Taff, an optician and business owner at Optician About Town. “The smell is usually a great indicator, lens cleaner shouldn’t have an obvious odor to it.” For a step-by-step tutorial on the best way to clean glasses — and the best products to do it — I asked Taff and other eyewear experts …

Sturgeon ‘must come clean’ on what she knew about husband’s £400k theft

Sturgeon ‘must come clean’ on what she knew about husband’s £400k theft

Published by Sam Flores

Nicola Sturgeon has been urged to “come clean” over what she knew about her husband embezzling £400,000 from the SNP. Peter Murrell, the party’s former chief executive, was remanded in custody on Monday and faces jail after admitting to stealing funds to buy a motorhome, cars and luxury items ranging from watches to fountain pens. His guilty plea at Edinburgh High Court immediately triggered accusations that Ms Sturgeon must have known about Murrell’s actions, which occurred between August 2010 and October 2022. The couple married in July 2010 and shared a home in Uddingston, near Glasgow, before they separated last year. Peter Murrell in the back of a prison van on Monday after he pleaded guilty to embezzlement at Edinburgh’s High Court Dame Jackie Baillie, the Scottish Labour deputy leader, claimed it was “inconceivable” that Ms Sturgeon could have known nothing. Russell Findlay, the Scottish Tory leader, called Murrell a “thieving magpie” and urged Ms Sturgeon to “come clean about exactly what she knew, and when”, adding: “Nobody in the real world is buying her …

The House | China And Clean Energy: Is Britain Swapping One Dependency For Another?

The House | China And Clean Energy: Is Britain Swapping One Dependency For Another?

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Illustration by Tracy Worrall 10 min read5 hr As the conflict in Iran highlights Britain’s exposure to fossil fuel markets, Zoe Crowther examines fears UK’s shift towards clean energy might mean replacing one dependency with another For years, the political logic of the energy transition has rested partly on the promise of greater sovereignty and less economic exposure to volatile oil markets, unstable regimes and geopolitical shocks. But as countries race to electrify transport systems, build offshore wind farms and expand solar generation, another dependency is becoming harder to ignore: China’s dominance in the clean energy supply chain. In a surprisingly hawkish speech in Brussels earlier this month, EU commissioner for climate, net zero and clean growth Wopke Hoekstra said that the EU had been “too naïve for too long” over the role of China in Europe’s energy sector. He warned of the danger of creating a new reliance on Chinese cleantech after the negative impact of dependencies on Russian gas, and imported liquefied natural gas from the Middle East and …

White hydrogen found in billion-year-old Canadian rock could fuel clean energy production

White hydrogen found in billion-year-old Canadian rock could fuel clean energy production

Published by Jenni Sidey

Deep beneath northern Ontario, some of Earth’s oldest rocks are quietly giving off hydrogen. At Kidd Creek mine near Timmins, geochemists tracked gas seeping from boreholes drilled two to nearly three kilometers below the surface. What they found was not a one-off puff or a short-lived flare. The hydrogen kept coming, in measurable amounts, over months. In some cases, it lasted for more than a decade. That matters because hydrogen already plays a central role in modern industry, especially in fertilizer, methanol, and steel production. Yet most of it still comes from fossil fuels or other energy-intensive processes. The new work suggests some of that supply might instead come straight from the crust. This would be possible in places where the right rocks already lie under active mining districts. Researchers from the University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa report that all 35 boreholes they analyzed at Kidd Creek released hydrogen. Across the dataset, the average discharge came to 0.008 tonnes per borehole per year. When extrapolated across the mine’s 14,801 boreholes, that works …

Old Oil and Gas Wells Could Find Second Life Producing Clean Energy

Old Oil and Gas Wells Could Find Second Life Producing Clean Energy

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As states seek out much-needed supplies of clean, reliable energy, some are looking to an unconventional source: abandoned oil and gas wells harnessed for geothermal heat. Millions of inactive wells are littered across the United States, the relics of earlier eras of fossil fuel production. A large number of the sites have no official owner, and many are still polluting groundwater and leaking heat-trapping methane. The country has barely scratched the surface in dealing with this problem. Policymakers in both Republican- and Democratic-led states are exploring whether these sites could instead be converted into new wells for producing geothermal energy. The holes are already drilled in the ground, after all. And regions with widespread oil and gas development have rich subsurface data that geothermal firms need in order to determine where and how to build their carbon-free systems. The concept is relatively new and largely untested, though scientists and startups are working to change that. States are also laying the groundwork for action by lifting regulatory hurdles and launching in-depth studies. In Oklahoma, the state Senate …