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WORLD ENERGY HITS A TURNING POINT
Auctions, where private companies compete for massive contracts to provide electricity, established record after record for cheap solar power... READ MORE›
WORLD ENERGY HITS A TURNING POINT
Auctions, where private companies compete for massive contracts to provide electricity, established record after record for cheap solar power... READ MORE›
INDIA UNVEILS THE WORLD'S LARGEST SOLAR POWER PLANT
Images have been released showing the sheer size of the new solar power plant in southern India... READ MORE›
CHINA JUST BUILT A CUTE SOLAR PLANT SHAPED LIKE A PANDA
The first phase of the plant was completed on June 30, PV magazine reported and it has started delivering power to a grid in North Western China... READ MORE›
SOLAR POWER GROWTH LEAPS BY 50% WORLDWIDE THANKS TO US AND CHINA
Globally there is now 305GW of solar power capacity, up from around 50GW in 2010 and virtually nothing at the turn of the millennium... READ MORE›
SOLAR PANEL RESEARCHERS INVESTIGATE POWERING TRAINS BY BYPASSING GRID
Imperial College London has partnered with the climate change charity 10 10 to investigate the use of track-side solar panels to power trains, the two organisations announced yesterday... READ MORE›
SOLAR POWER BREAKS UK RECORDS THANKS TO SUNNY WEATHER
Buckley said the grid could handle a far greater proportion of solar power than currently seen, because gas power stations could be ramped down... READ MORE›
INDIA UNVEILS GLOBAL SOLAR ALLIANCE OF 120 COUNTRIES AT PARIS CLIMATE SUMMIT
India's prime minister has launched an international solar alliance of over 120 countries with the French president, Francois Hollande, at the Paris COP21 climate summit... READ MORE›
INDIA'S BAREFOOT COLLEGE LIGHTS UP THE WORLD
It is in such villages like Santa Teresa in Belize that Tilonia's Barefoot College goes to find its women to be trained in solar engineering... READ MORE›
FARMERS BUILD OFF-GRID HOUSE OUT OF BARLEY STRAW
Photo David Potter, Ella Maesepp and Quade in front of their eco-house in Katanning, WA... READ MORE›
AN ECLIPSE IS JUST WHAT THE U.S. POWER SECTOR'S BEEN WAITING FOR
In North Carolina, a part of which will see total darkness during the eclipse, Duke Energy Corp... READ MORE›
RENEWABLES ROADSHOW: HOW BROKEN HILL WENT FROM MINING TO DRAG QUEENS AND SOLAR FARMS
Thomas says while former Broken Hill artists painted mining scenes, many of the newer ones are inspired by renewable energy... READ MORE›
THE ECLIPSE WILL GIVE US A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE OF NATURAL GAS
Natural gas is about to get a glimpse of its future role in the U.S. power mix as solar energy's backup... READ MORE›
SCRAPPING HINKLEY FOR RENEWABLE ALTERNATIVES WILL SAVE 'TENS OF BILLIONS'
A final investment decision by EDF on the nuclear power plant's expansion is expected in May... READ MORE›
THE MOST-HATED BEAR IN SOLAR ISN'T BACKING DOWN
Turns out Johnson was right about solar-panel company SolarCity, bought by Tesla Inc... READ MORE›
ON EVE OF PARIS CLIMATE SUMMIT, BRITAIN PULLS THE PLUG ON RENEWABLES
It's not just the subsidy cuts that are hurting renewable energy in Britain... READ MORE›
FALLING GREEN ENERGY COSTS 'TO STOP' FOSSIL FUEL GROWTH
Luke Sussams, senior researcher at Carbon Tracker, said that electric vehicles and solar power are game-changers that the fuel industry consistently underestimates ... READ MORE›
NEVADA'S SOLAR WORKERS AND CUSTOMERS REEL AS NEW RULES 'SHUT DOWN' INDUSTRY
California and a number of other states eventually defeated efforts by energy companies and corporate lobby groups to claw back incentives for solar customers... READ MORE›
UK BACKS A?315M RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS
Under the coalition's electricity market reforms, large renewable energy projects no longer receive direct subsidies funded by the electricity bill-payer... READ MORE›
THESE POWER PLANTS SURVIVED WWII BOMBS BUT MAYBE NOT MERKEL
Swiss utility Alpiq Holding AG has been trying for a year without success to sell a minority stake in its hydro plants, which include pumped storage... READ MORE›
SOLAR IMPULSE PLANE BEGINS FIRST SUN-POWERED FLIGHT AROUND THE WORLD BUT HOW DOES IT WORK... AND WILL IT?
Two Swiss pilots began the first ever attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered plane this morning... READ MORE›
WORLD'S LARGEST SOLAR POWER PLANT UNVEILED IN INDIA'S KAMUTHI
India's new solar power plant in Kamuthi town has a capacity of 648 MW, spread over 10 square kilometers almost 4 square miles ... READ MORE›
SOLAR IMPULSE BREAKS RECORD FOR NON-STOP SOLO FLIGHT
Video Solar Impulse breaks record for non-stop solo flight... READ MORE›
BILL GATES: WORLD WILL DELIVER 'CLEAN ENERGY BREAKTHROUGH' WITHIN 15 YEARS
Bill Gates has predicted researchers will discover a clean energy breakthrough that will save our planet and power our world within the next 15 years... READ MORE›
ISRAEL BUILDS WORLD'S TALLEST SOLAR THERMAL TOWER IN NEGEV DESERT
Countries with cooler climates like Germany have outpaced Israel in renewable energy development... READ MORE›
MORE THAN HALF OF JOBS IN UK SOLAR INDUSTRY LOST IN WAKE OF SUBSIDY CUTS
Change in government's energy policy blamed for job losses just as solar power eclipses coal in electricity generation... READ MORE›
A 10 FROM LEN: STRICTLY SPECIAL TO DRIVE BIGGEST TV POWER SPIKE THIS CHRISTMAS
National Grid forecasts the ballroom dancer's show, Strictly Len Goodman, will drive the festive season's biggest TV pickup, a sudden post-show spike in electricity demand... READ MORE›
WORLD BANK, INDIA SIGN $1 BILLION SOLAR POWER DEAL
The total lending from the World Bank's various arms to Asia's third-largest economy is close to 32 billion... READ MORE›
UK SOLAR POWER INSTALLATIONS PLUMMET AFTER GOVERNMENT CUTS
The government says the changes were necessary to protect bill payers, as the solar incentives are levied on household energy bills... READ MORE›
FOUR IMMUNIZATION INNOVATIONS SAVING CHILDREN'S LIVES
In the province of Punjab, officials use mobile phones to monitor the supply of vaccines in communities... READ MORE›