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.

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.

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.

Nổi bật phía mặt trên Logitech K750, hai panel tiếp nhân năng lượng mặt trời (hoặc ánh đèn mạnh) nằm đối xứng ở vị trí trên cùng. Hai tấm panel cao cấp sẽ hấp thụ rồi chuyển hóa năng lượng mặt trời tích hợp vào các cell pin bên trong thiết bị. Khi được nạp đầy, các cell pin có thể giúp Logitech K750 duy trì hoạt động bình thường trong gần 3 tháng ở điện kiện giả định tối hoàn toàn.

Hiện Brazil là nước sản xuất ethanol lớn thứ 2 trên thế giới (sau Mỹ), đồng thời là nhà xuất khẩu nhiên liệu sinh học lớn nhất thế giới. Tháng trước, Ủy ban châu Âu (EC) đã "bật đèn xanh" cho việc thành lập liên doanh có trụ sở đặt tại Brazil này./.

The research overcomes a major obstacle to producing sustainable and low-cost biofuels. Current biofuel production relies on fermenting sugars found in sugar cane, beets, corn and similar food crops. This process threatens the food supply and is not an eco-friendly solution. To tackle these issues, researchers are exploring new techniques to change woody plants and grasses to liquid fuel, which will absorb both the atmospheric CO2 and the CO2 produced during its process.

Ông Nick Getzen, phát ngôn viên của The Jobs Project – lúc đó đang cố gắng tạo cơ hội việc làm trong lĩnh vực năng lượng tái tạo cho người dân Tây Virgina và Kentucky cho biết, Những người dân ở đây đã từng tỏ ra hoài nghi khi ý tưởng này được đưa ra khoảng 1 năm trước đây. Trong các công trường phía nam, người dân thậm chí chỉ có thể lấy điện từ một nguồn duy nhất – các nhà máy điện than đá.

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.

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.

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.

The director of the Energy Intensive Users Group, Jeremy Nicholson has said that failure of wind how has very profound implications. This comes after new figures have shown that during the recent cold period, wind power produced less than two percent of the nation’s electricity. He says that because of this, the government will encourage companies to build back up stations in case of further failures.