Year: 2020

An aggressive push towards 100% renewable energy would save Americans as much as $321bn in energy costs, while also slashing planet-heating emissions, according to a new report. Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, has vowed to eliminate greenhouse gases from the US power grid within 15 years and essentially zero out emissions by 2050, a plan assailed by Donald Trump as costly and detrimental to the American economy. But a new analysis by Rewiring America, an energy policy organization, finds that households would benefit financially from a complete switch to clean…

Olive production in Pakistan is the next best agricultural solution for supporting the country’s cash-strapped economy. Current shifts in global economics call for innovation in the agriculture sector and a new export portfolio. According to reports, Pakistan imports olive oil worth $2 billion every year. In attempts to overcome this negative balance, the Punjab government initiated an olive production program in Potohar that planted more than 1 million olive trees on 8,000 acres of cultivable land in 2016. Agriculture reforms that address cohesive economic growth are much needed in Pakistan.…

A major renewable energy project in Australia billed as the world’s largest solar farm in development has had its proposed location revealed. The AUD$20 billion facility – the heart of an ambitious electricity network called the Australia–ASEAN Power Link – will be built at a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory, roughly halfway between Darwin and Alice Springs. The gargantuan 10-gigawatt array – spread out across some 20,000 football fields’ worth of photovoltaic panels – might be situated close to the heart of the Australian outback, but the energy reaped from the plant…