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September 17, 2018

Solar & Wind Set to Generate 50% of Global Electricity by 2050

Every year, the industry research firm Bloomberg NEF (New Energy Finance) publishes a report called the New Energy Outlook (NEO), focusing on the electricity sector. This year’s report tells us that solar and wind energy will generate half of the world’s electricity by 2050. Solar...

September 12, 2018

Majority of the UK Public Demands Solar Energy, says YouGov Survey

According to a recent YouGov survey commissioned by environmental law group ClientEarth, more than half of the British public would install solar panels (as well as a selection of home battery products) to combat climate change – but only if there were greater assistance from the UK gove...

August 30, 2018

How to Get Your Kids Into Eco-Friendly Habits

Raising a child: you teach them how to ride their first bike, and to say thank you when they receive a gift. You help with their maths homework, and you help them learn the value of money. In the blink of an eye, you’re showing them how to shave, or you’re driving them to their school ...

August 17, 2018

When Will Fossil Fuels Run Out?

When it comes to environmental health and doing our bit to help Planet Earth, we’re more educated than we’ve ever been before. Not a week goes by without a headline about global warming, or an article about some emerging renewable technology that might save the planet we live on. I...

5 (Non-Solar) Ways That You Can Be Good to the Environment

We love solar energy here at Project Solar (obviously), but we do know it’s not the only way to help Planet Earth. We’re just as enthusiastic about the other ways – from the small-scale changes in habit, to the large-scale projects that take huge group effort. Here are some of our...

The Dangers of Fossil Fuels and Why Solar is the Best Alternative

Fossil fuels have a devastating effect on the environment, and yet we continue with the production of fuel through these harmful means. We're all aware of the costs of fossil fuel production - it's a major player for the worldwide economy - but do we really know that much about the hidden ...

Europe’s First Solar Panel Recycling Plant Opens in France

Many solar panels in the UK are reaching the end of their 25-year lifespans, and are being decommissioned and removed from rooftops. For a long time, the process after decommission involved the panels being recycled in all-purpose glass recycling facilities, which for all its benefits does...

Celebs Gone Solar: Which Famous Faces Have Embraced Solar Panels?

Solar energy has never been more affordable, and these celebrity advocates want you to know it. In this blog, we’re going to run through our favourite celebrities whose homes are all generating solar energy. We think it’s important to raise awareness any way we can, and seeing as th...

Listed Buildings & Solar Panels: What Are The Rules?

When you think about it, installing solar panels onto a listed building is really combining the past and present (with plenty of future, too). A coming-together of age-old architectural structures and the modern technological feats of solar energy. A pretty interesting match, right? Som...

Solar Beats U.S. Import Tariff to Become Biggest Source of Power

In the U.S., solar energy generated more electricity in the first quarter of 2018 than both gas and wind put together. The rate of solar panel installations (in the U.S.) increased by 13% in the first four months of the year, making solar accountable for a huge 55% of all new electricity g...

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