The worldwide campaign to encourage 100 per cent renewable energy usage by businesses is resulting in an increasing number of Silicon Valley big players to invest in wind and solar power.

57 per cent of Sweden’s power was generated from renewables last year. A regulatory official has stated Sweden is on track to run completely on renewable energy in the next 25 years.

Renewable energy investment is gaining momentum at Mach speeds and tech companies want a piece of the pie. On the global scale, record-breaking investment in renewable energy reached $285.

Barack Obama has announced this weekend that the budget for renewable energy funding will be doubling within five years in an attempt to commit to pledges made during the Paris Climate Summit in 2015.

Google has almost doubled their wind power and solar power levels that supply energy to their huge data centres. These data centres allow in excess of one billion people to use the search engine for information, videos and to communicate online whenever they please.

A Global Data study has revealed that solar energy is now the leading renewable energy source in Australia. Wind and bio technology have taken a back seat to solar energy use as government rebates and incentives are encouraging more Australians to move to solar technology.

China is a big fan of nuclear power plants and they now own and operate more than any other country in the world, with plans to increase production three fold by 2020.

The windy weather is paying off in South Australia with the resource generating more than half the state’s electricity last week. The Clean Energy Council, courtesy of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), reported that 55 per cent of the energy consumed on Wednesday was generated by South Australian wind farms.

The UK is celebrating reaching a renewable energy target milestone with the completion of a Cumbrian wind farm pushing the nation’s installed UK wind power capacity beyond 6,000 MW – enough to supply electricity to 3,354,893 homes.