On a barren expanse of bog in southeast Finland the size of 180 football pitches, Taisto Raussi's yellow harvester hoovers up a thin layer of rich peat and deposits it in a heap, to be sold as fuel.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What do peaty bogs in northern Europe have in connection with electric vehicles? Well – scientists in Estonia say they've found a ...

Ireland has always been known for its lush green landscape. But turning its energy a matching shade has been a longer road. The country long relied heavily on peat, its only domestically produced ...

Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland)--Plans to convert a peat-fired power station in the midlands of Ireland to biomass have been shot down by the nation ...

Rwanda’s first peat-fired power plant at Gishoma is currently running at 10.85MW. Rwanda Energy Group/Twitter The Rwandan government is hoping to achieve its goal of connecting 70% of the country’s 11 ...

DUBLIN, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Ireland will stop using peat to produce electricity by about 2025 to 2030 as it moves towards renewable sources, although it faces infrastructure and financing hurdles, the ...

TARTU, Estonia—Peat, plentiful in bogs in northern Europe, could be used to make sodium-ion batteries cheaply for use in electric vehicles, scientists at an Estonian university say. Sodium-ion ...

The Association of Finnish Peat Industries fears that imposing a separate energy tax on peat would serve as an incentive to use more wood for energy - even high quality wood that could be used for ...

Tractors and peat faming machineries are lined up in Taisto Raussi's peat fields in Sippola, Finland. Image: © Alessandro Rampazzo/AFP On a barren expanse of bog in ...