Ocean energy turbines have been trickling into the global marketplace and Japan has an ocean energy ace up its sleeve: the Kuroshio Current.

This winter the city of Washington is looking into two energy efficiency projects that could have big savings. The first project involves a program sponsored by Ameren Missouri.

Construction of the world’s largest tidal energy plant looks set to begin next month in Scotland, after the project’s majority owners – the Australian-founded and managed company, Atlantis Resources – got the go-ahead to start drawing on government grant money.

The recently revamped government Green Deal has been an encouraging step forward which will offer free cash for homeowners in need of double glazing or wall and loft insulation.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency launched our Energy Star Home Advisor – an online tool to help consumers save money and improve their homes’ energy efficiency through recommended home-improvement projects.

Crews are setting foundations, erecting racks and installing solar panels in a wave of activity at the Silt Water Treatment Plant. The 234-kilowatt solar array is slated to be in service and powering the plant by Dec. 31, according to Katharine Rushton, commercial sales associate for Sunsense Solar.

VCA also says that the project combines Passivhaus principles with renewable energy technologies to reduce energy usage by 50 percent.

According to Dodgingtown’s Green Committee Chairman Kirk Blanchard, following a successful and economically advantageous changeover from an oil- to gas-fired boiler, Chief Steve Murphy charged the committee with upgrading electrical lighting fixtures and bulbs to achieve even more energy savings.

A combination of highly efficient LEDs and a digital control system from Open Technology has achieved 85% energy savings on lighting.

Right now, solar power only comprises 0.23 percent of America’s electricity generation. But that percentage has the potential to skyrocket to 10 percent in the next 30 years, according to a report released Thursday by Environment America Research & Policy Center.

Most of the money in commercial and residential goes to energy-efficiency upgrades, but about a quarter of commercial projects are renewable energy projects.

The aircraft, a heavily modified microlight, uses a conventional four-stroke petrol engine as its main power source and an electric motor connected to a bank of 16 large lithium-polymer batteries built into the wings.

The 40-seat "Bio-Bus" runs on biomethane gas generated through the treatment of sewage and food waste. The eco-friendly vehicle can travel up to 300km (186 miles) on one tank of gas, which takes the annual waste of about five people to produce.

More than 23,000 energy efficiency measures have been installed in rural homes in the UK in the last six months. That’s an almost 3000% increase between April and September this year, according to new statistics from DECC.

Cục Năng lượng và Biến đổi khí hậu (DECC), Anh vừa cho biết hơn 23 ngàn biện pháp sử dụng năng lượng hiệu quả đã được áp dụng tại các gia đình ở vùng nông thôn của Anh trong vòng 6 tháng qua, tương đương với mức tăng trưởng 3.000 %.

Pursuing energy efficient ways will help reduce electricity consumption and save as much as Rs 50,000 crore, according to Power Minister Piyush Goyal.

Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School kicked off its SEED program with a powerful all-school presentation by Alliance for Climate Education. The ACE Assembly was a natural lead-in for recruiting students to the SEED program, which promotes greenhouse-gas-reducing efficiency upgrades in their community.

South Africa has a goal of having 18 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030, so projects like this are definitely steps in the right direction. If there's one thing that South Africa has lots of, it's sunlight! 45% of the total project value was spent on "local content" to help increase the positive economic impact on the area.

Lithium ion batteries power everything these days from smartphones to electric cars. They’ve been a great advance in portable power storage. On the downside, their spread also makes a big contribution to electronic waste dumps often found in developing countries.

Nhiều người trong số chúng ta tưởng rằng mình đang sử dụng năng lượng đúng cách, nhưng thực ra không phải như vậy. Bộ Năng lượng và Biến đổi Khí Hậu (DECC), Anh vừa tiết lộ một số sự thật về bốn ngộ nhận mà chúng ta hoàn toàn sai về tiết kiệm năng lượng.