Tag: renewable energy

Investment in the renewable project is estimated to reach £650m ($1bn), which will be partly funded through aids from the ...

Most days are windy in Denmark, but Thursday was unusually so - it was so windy that the country got ...

Germany is taking some serious strides in its attempt to reduce carbon emissions by 40 percent until 2020: the European ...

In March, we were telling you about Tesla Motors' new development, a new battery that could take your home off ...

More job opportunities could be created by investing clean energy sources than fossil fuels.

In only 15 years, renewable energy (wind, solar, hydro) could surpass fossil fuels as the main provider of energy. According ...

Converting the power infrastructure to rely on clean, renewable energy seems like a daunting, expensive and some would say, unachievable ...

The island country is preparing to launch a new energy policy, seeking to curb costs and promote the use of ...

In its “Energy Security and Sustainability Strategy” (ES2 Strategy) report, the US army outlines the steps it should take to ...

A shocking conclusion came from an International Monetary Fund report: they found that fossil fuels will be subsidized by a ...

In unanimous vote, the city of Vancouver, Canada, passed its Greenest City Action Plan - to become the world's greenest city ...

The world's first grid-connected wave power station has just been activated off the coast of Australia. Taking energy directly from ...

The Dutch Windwheel is a concept for a sustainable landmark that will not only generate wind energy silently, but also ...

Australian solar researchers have converted over 40 percent of solar light's energy into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported by ...

Among the more common arguments against wind turbines you usually have noise and ugliness. Personally, I really don't find wind ...

It may be gloomy, windy and rainy, but the Scottish weather may have its upsides too. in October, Scotland generated ...

We keep hearing more about developments made in the photovoltaic field, but we have to keep in mind that this ...

Denmark's climate minister says that the country should ban coal use by 2025 to make the Nordic nation a leader in fighting ...

Germany has taken a pioneering role in terms of renewable energy, in Europa and even worldwide. Many countries are now ...

Kenya has announced the launch the world’s largest single turbine geothermal power plant, which will add 140 Megawatts (MW) to the ...

A trio of newly published studies showed once again that natural gas is not a clean energy bridge - the studies ...

The UK's first floating solar farm has been unveiled in Berkshire; the array features 800 photovoltaic panels and has a capacity ...

Apache claims to have found the biggest oil field in 30 years. Image credit: Apache. I was reading this morning ...

Even though coal is still Germany's number one energy source, renewable energy is developing incredibly fast, with wind and solar ...

Solar energy could play the most important role in Californian energy. Image via The Leaf Exchange. A new study conducted ...

Wind is already the cheapest form of energy in Denmark, and prices will plummet in the near future, the country's ...

Renewable energy is clean, getting cheaper by the day and in many respects becoming more efficient thanks to rapid advancements ...

The energy industry simply isn't keeping up with what Elon Musk wants to do. Musk, chairman of the solar installer ...

The falling cost of renewable energy shouldn't surprise anyone by now - all we're waiting for is the tipping point ...

The problem with many sources of clean energy is the limited conditions which they can use to produce energy - ...

It may be one heck of a coincidence, or it could be the fact that renewable energy causes a major ...

Stanford researchers claim the inherent disordered molecular structure of polymer semiconductors is actually desirable. Current organic solar cells made with ...

The world is spending half a trillion dollars on fossil fuel subsidies every year, according to a new report released ...

It almost seems too good to be true - a novel device that uses only sunlight and wastewater to produce ...

France's ban on hydraulic fracking was completed, with the court upholding a 2011 law which prohibited the practice and cancelled ...

A new government report by the UK’s Department of Energy And Climate Change shows that the country has reached record ...

It's no surprise that Germany is just giving lessons in terms of managing renewable energy sources - year after year, ...

You often hear discussions about how much oil there is still left in the world's underground. Listen to oil companies ...

Australia seems poised to become one of the global leaders in terms of renewable energy; after a study showed that ...

Water and energy are two of the things we pretty much take for granted - but we shouldn't. Water is ...

I recently came across a great article discussing solar photovoltaic (PV) efficiency. You can read it in its entirety on ...

The only thing that stands between Australia and a future led entirely by renewable energy is the political will to ...

This has the potential to be the holy graal of solar energy - UCLA researchers have developed a new organic ...

Most people perceive China as a greatly polluted, overcrowded country, with little to no interest in renewable energy and a ...

I'm not necessarily a big fan of Ikea, but you have to admire this kind of initiative. The Swedish corporation ...

Saudi Arabia is by far the most oil-blessed country in the world - only Russia coming even close to it, ...

According to their own statements, the US Naval Research Laboratory is working to extract the carbon dioxide and produce hydrogen gas ...

Tokelau is a small island near Samoa, not far from New Zealand; at a first glance, it wouldn't seem significantly ...

A recent study of gargantuan proportions estimated that the technical potential of photovoltaic cells and concentrated solar power (CSP) in ...

According to a recently publicized rapport by the  Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), renewable energy sources could account for ...