2016 was the hottest year in 137 years of record keeping and the third year in a row to take the number one slot, a mark of how much the world has warmed over the last century because of human activities, U.S. government scientists announced Wednesday.

As the COP22 gets underway in Marrakech, Isabelle Kocher discusses the ENGIE Group’s strategy in the French newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche. She explains how the energy revolution requires the development of renewable energies and digital technologies. Solar energy and energy storage play a central part.

One of the world’s most popular online payments systems, PayPal, is now sourcing some of its electricity requirements from a solar farm in Arizona.

The capital intensity per watt of the utility scale solar plants in the current development pipeline in Australia is about half that of those that are already operational.