A researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has invented a method of making high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cables that are thinner and more flexible than demonstration HTS cables now installed in the electric power grid while carrying the same or more current. The compact cables could be used in the electric grid as well as scientific and medical equipment and may enable HTS power transmission for military applications.

Russia has said it was ready to provide Indonesia with assistance to build its own nuclear power plant. Russian Ambassador to Indonesia Alexander Ivanov said in a press conference Tuesday that the possibility of building a nuclear plant in Indonesia was one of many issues Russia was willing to discuss in the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) later this year.

Environmentalists have long complained that so long as diesel or gasoline remains relatively inexpensive, there is little incentive to come up with alternative, greener energies for transportation. But the price of oil and gasoline isn't the only reason to go green. The United States Navy says they are making a tactical decision to find cleaner alternatives. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus says that by 2012, the military branch plans to demonstrate a carrier strike group that uses alternative fuels.

Bằng cách giải quyết cả 2 vấn đề này, đồng thời đạt được những hiệu quả không ngờ, Solar Synergy đã giành vị trí số 1 trong cuộc thi ý tưởng công nghệ Isarel mở rộng IDEAS tại Viện kinh tế và môi trường thuộc Đại học Tel Aviv tháng 11 vừa qua. Những nhà tài trợ của cuộc thi quốc tế này muốn tìm kiếm, tài trợ và thúc đẩy phát triển các ý tưởng liên quan tới khủng hoảng kinh tế, môi trường và năng lượng.

Nhóm tác giả gồm Lê Quốc Bảo, Lê Quốc Anh, Bùi Thanh Tùng, Hà Sơn Trí - khoa kỹ thuật xây dựng, Trường đại học bách khoa TP.HCM, đã nghiên cứu thành công cấu kiện panel tường và panel sàn làm từ bê tông nhẹ chất lượng cao tạo rỗng bằng hạt EPS (expanded polystyrene beads) dùng cho công trình xây dựng.

Một công ty xi măng ở Tuy-ni-di mới đây đã ký một hợp đồng thỏa thuận với Clean Development Projects Limited, một công ty có trụ sở ở Luân Đôn chuyên về xúc tiến và tạo điều kiện thuận lợi cho sự bền vững về năng lượng, để trồng một đồn điền cây năng lượng sinh học rộng 500.000ha ở Tuy-ni-di.

France’s solar-panel imports surged last year as developers relied mostly on foreign manufacturers to supply a boom in renewable-energy projects, Environment Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet said. French customs figures show the deficit in favor of solar panel imports widened to 1.5 billion euros ($2.1 billion) in 2010 compared with 800 million euros the previous year, she said at a conference in Paris.

Italy is one of the key producers of biodiesel in the EU. However the nation's output capacity has been hurt due to a rise in the importation of cheaper biodiesel. The biofuel is most commonly made from palm oil and rapeseed oil in Italy, however it is thought that the imported fuel can cost less than these feedstocks.

The European Summit dedicated to energy and innovation has emphasised the importance of energy savings for the climate, as well as for competitiveness, jobs and energy security. The cross-sectoral Coalition for Energy Savings welcomes European leaders’ focus on energy efficiency, but warns that there is not enough being done to get us on track to meet the 20% energy efficiency target by 2020.

Award winning Israeli company Solaris Synergy has designed solar energy grids that can float on water, reducing energy production costs, and preventing water loss. Generating energy from the sun would be more practical if not for two huge drawbacks: The expense of the silicon material that converts light to electricity, and the large tracts of land needed for solar farms.

National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a one-year grant of $80,000 to Paul J. Dauenhauer who works as an assistant professor at the Amherst located University of Massachusetts. Being a chemical engineer, Dauenhauer will utilize the award to conduct basic research on the thermal degradation of woody biomass during pyrolysis.

The global economic recovery will fuel ever greater demand for oil this year, with higher fuel prices expected to add a 15 percent burden on advanced economies, the IEA warned on Thursday. "Under current assumptions for global GDP, oil price and oil demand, the global oil burden could rise to 4.7 percent in 2011, getting close to levels that have coincided in the past with a marked economic slowdown," the International Energy Agency said in its latest monthly Oil Market Report.

People were skeptical when the idea was first floated about a year ago, says Nick Getzen, spokesman for The Jobs Project, which is trying to create renewable energy job opportunities in West Virginia and Kentucky. In the southern coalfields, he says, people have only ever gotten electricity one way – from coal-fired power plants.

Sản phẩm đèn Led (viết tắt của Light emitting diode tức đi-ốt phát quang) ngày càng được tiêu thụ mạnh tại Mỹ, Nhật, Trung Quốc, Hàn Quốc nhờ ưu điểm tiết kiệm năng lượng, ánh sáng mạnh và tuổi thọ cao, lại có nhiều ứng dụng như làm đèn xe, đèn đường, màn hình điện thoại di động.Nếu sử dụng đèn Led để chiếu sáng thay các bóng đèn compact, huỳnh quang... Việt Nam có thể tiết kiệm được ít nhất 40% điện tiêu thụ cho toàn hệ thống đèn chiếu sáng.

Energy commissioner considering infrastructure bonds and streamlining national schemes to reduce pressure on banks.EU sources told the newswire that a new type of infrastructure project bond, proposed by commission president Jose Manuel Barroso last year, is likely to be given precedence as a new funding source.

Panasonic đã thông báo, ngày 18/3/2011 họ sẽ phát hành 2 model bóng đèn LED EVERLEDS loại tiêu chuẩn có góc phân phối ánh sáng rộng (khoảng 300 độ) tại Nhật Bản. Góc phân bố cường độ sáng của đèn LED mới từ Panasonic khoảng 300 độ, gần như tương đương với các đèn sợi đốt sẽ cho phép chiếu sáng rõ ràng theo những hướng rộng.

The site allows homeowners and property developers to work out the optimum size of any solar power system they wish to install, and provides users with links to local installers. The site is designed to encourage more uptake of renewable energy in the region and to fuel job growth, according to DRCOG executive director, Jennifer Schaufele.

Renewable energy experts have described Portland Port as perfectly positioned to become a future green energy hub at a conference. More than 80 representatives from companies which develop and build offshore renewable energy sites were welcomed to the Portland Heights Hotel for the industry insight.

Havana Energy Ltd – part of the Esencia Group of companies - has teamed up with Zerus SA, a company linked to the Ministry of Sugar, to develop a pilot 30MW power plant at Ciro Redondo Sugar Mill, about 400km from Havana, and as a second stage four further power plants. The business will be developed in a joint venture company.

Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) Group yesterday officially started construction on the second turbine of Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant with designed capacity of 95MW. The Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant project has been conducted by EVN Group as the main investor. It's the second hydropower plant to be built on Vu Gia-Thu Bon river system. It is expected that the hydropower plant will produce annual electricity output of 679.6 million KWh to join the national grid.