Gaining new insight into how efficiently the microbes in large bioreactors produce methane from brewery waste, Cornell scientists hope to use their new knowledge to shape these microbial communities to produce liquid biofuels and other useful products.

The demand for renewable energy is expected to triple over the next decades according to U.N.E.P.’s Year Book 2011. United Nations Environment Program’s 2011 Year Book predicts this year to be the first where low-carbon energy capacity exceeds that of fossil-fuel.

The global market for LED light fixtures, which already stood at $3.8bn in 2010, is expected to grow to $8.3bn within the next three years, according to new research. The heightened awareness of energy efficiency together and global fiscal stimulus has created suitable conditions for the adoption of white light application of LED technology, which would otherwise have faced high costs.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has directed the MOIT to soon complete and submit to the Government the mechanism issuing regulations to support, facilitate and encourage wind power projects in Vietnam.

Thus, from March 1st, the average price of electricity will increase from 1,077vnd/kWh to 1.242vnd/kWh, equivalent to a 15.28% increase. With this increase, many of EVN’s costs shall continue to be kept from being allocated to the price, the rate of return on state capital of EVN is zero and coal price has not risen in the electricity price structure.

Giai đoạn 2008-2010, EVN tiếp tục triển khai chương trình 5 triệu đèn compact, đã bán được gần 4 triệu đèn, góp phần thúc đẩy thị trường tiêu thụ đèn compact, từ mức tiêu thụ 500.000 bóng đèn năm 2003, đến năm 2009 tiêu thụ 31 triệu bóng. EVN đã ký hợp đồng với các công ty sản xuất đèn huỳnh quang compact tiết kiệm điện được thiết kế riêng cho chương trình với chất lượng tốt, có tuổi thọ hơn 6.000 giờ theo tiêu chuẩn IEC60969 để cung cấp cho khách hàng với giá thấp hơn 15-20% so với giá sản phẩm cùng loại trên thị trường. Đến nay, việc sử dụng đèn compact tiết kiệm điện đã phổ biến.

Từ năm 2011 tại Việt Nam, Công ty Trường Thành và Công ty Jatro sẽ trồng 100.000 hecta cây Jatropha tại Việt Nam để tạo nguồn nhiên liệu dầu bio-diesel thân thiện với môi trường. Với dự báo đến năm 2020, nếu chỉ cần 10% xe hơi trên toàn cầu dùng nhiên liệu sinh học, thì thị trường cho loại dầu này cũng có giá trị lên đến 300 tỷ USD.

Automobiles, military vehicles, even large-scale power generating facilities may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to a new alloy developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. A team of researchers at the Lab that is jointly funded by the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, achieved a 25 percent improvement in the ability of a key material to convert heat into electrical energy.

India was taking serious steps to promote alternative technologies that used bio-fuels and solar and wind energy, a senior official said Saturday. India also has plans to produce more bio-fuels and electric vehicles to save petrol for other vital needs, Sohail Akhtar, director in the ministry of new and renewable energy, said.

Solar power could be on the brink of economic breakthrough, reaching investment levels of €70 billion in 2015, according to a major study out this week. The report, Solar Generation 6, by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) and Greenpeace International estimates that photovoltics could meet 12% of European demand by 2020 and up to 9% of the world’s demand by 2030.

Will electric car charging networks have the type of roaming commonly found between cell phone providers? If Nokia Siemens Networks– a joint venture between the European networking giants — has anything to say about it, in Europe they will. This week at Mobile World Congress (MWC), an annual telecom conference in Barcelona, Nokia Siemens and a German public utility group called Smartlab announced they are developing an authentication and authorization service to enable electric vehicle drivers to “roam” when charging up via various service providers.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a $36.8m loan for a privately owned wind farm in Pakistan. The loan will be used by Turkish energy firm Zorlu Enerji Electrik Uretim to install wind turbines in the southern Sindh province. The wind project will cost $147m with 30% financed through equity provided by Zorlu Enerji.

Ngân hàng phát triển châu Á (ADB) sẽ hỗ trợ khoản vay 36.8 triệu đôla để xây dựng trang trại gió tư nhân tại Pakistan. Hãng năng lượng Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ Zorlu Enerji Electrik Uretim sẽ dùng khoản vay này để lắp đặt các tuabin gió tại miền Bắc tỉnh Sindh. Dự án này có tổng trị giá 147 triệu đôla, trong đó 30% giá trị tài chính do Zorlu Enerji hỗ trợ.

Another China's fully self-developed No. 1 unit reactor pressure vessel, projected by Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant and manufactured by China First Heavy Industries (CFHI) recently passed a test successfully.

Drayson Racing and Aston University have announced a collaboration to develop and demonstrate low carbon automotive technologies. The partnership will investigate 'second generation' biofuels produced from waste biomass such as straw, wood and sewage sludge to create high performance cars with reduced CO2 emissions.

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.

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.

Asia leads the growth in global wind power, which grew 35.8 GW in 2010 bringing total global capacity to 194.4 GW – up 22.5% from 2009, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) says. Wind power installations in 2010 represented investments worth €47.3 billion, but the global wind power market was nonetheless down for the first time in 20 years. New installations fell 7% compared to 2009, mainly due to a disappointing year in the US, as well as a slowdown in Europe.

Sản phẩm xuất hiện tại Việt Nam khoảng 2 – 3 năm nay, thị trường thiết bị loại này hiện thực sự phong phú khi có đến vài chục loại thiết bị khác nhau, hầu hết đều có nguồn gốc xuất xứ từ Trung Quốc, Đài Loan. Về giá cả, cũng rất “dễ chịu” khi những món đồ “Hi-tech” này được bán từ 150.000 đồng.

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.