THERE are no electric poles on the tiny island village of Baleswar in Nalbari district of Asom. Even then, you can see people using fans and lights, charging their cellphones and even operating computers! All thanks to solar power.

During the past decade, United States renewable electricity production has increased by a considerable 300%. Despite this impressively rapid growth, the European Union is still far ahead the US, as European countries (especially Germany) utilize renewable energy much more than the US or the rest of the world.

Getting energy from the sun is a great idea. However, installing solar panels house-by-house is slow, costly and cumbersome, and downright inefficient if the goal is to bring solar to the masses.

The International Energy Agency said the world's clean energy investments are sorely lacking and this week called for an additional $36 trillion of funding by 2050.

Britain announced plans Tuesday to finance a new generation of nuclear power plants and renewable energy facilities, in a move that illustrates the differences in energy policies among European

The average U.S. citizen is willing to pay 13 percent more for electricity in support of a national clean-energy standard (NCES), according to Yale and Harvard researchers in Nature Climate Change.

Tại Cottage Lodge thuộc Vườn Quốc gia New Forest (Brockenhurst, Anh), khách nghỉ qua đêm sẽ tận mắt chứng kiến một chiếc ti vi được chạy bằng xe đạp ngay trong phòng.

Sáng kiến hợp tác này được thực hiện theo chương trình hỗ trợ tiếp cận năng lượng tái tạo AtRE của UNDP/BOI.

Chính phủ Nigeria hôm thứ Tư (16/05) cho biết đã nhận được một khoản hỗ trợ của chính phủ Nhật Bản để giúp nước này nâng công suất phát điện nhờ năng lượng mặt trời.

Microsoft is researching the idea of locating its data centres near landfills and wastewater treatment plants from which they could generate their own power.

After a year of preparation, the SNEC International Photovoltaic Power Generation Conference and Exhibition will begin today at the Shanghai New International Expo Center.

The title of the Georgia Tech news release, “Stable Electrodes for Improving Printed Electronics,” might not have caught your eye, but this is some totally cool research. Here’s more from Georgia Tech.

Trên tổng diện tích 183,5 ha, Vincom Village dành đến 2/3 diện tích cho cây xanh - mặt nước, giao thông, còn lại là những công trình thấp tầng.

New concepts such as the Multi Duored gearbox and the HydridDrive are being developed to combine compact design, high efficiency and easy maintenance.

Last month Apple unveiled that it plans to build both a massive fuel cell farm and a huge solar farm at its data center in Maiden, North Carolina.

The report also comes just days after two new reports from analyst firms Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Clean Energy Pipeline both calculated that clean energy investment reached its lowest level in several years during the first quarter of 2012, primarily as a result of policy uncertainty in the EU and US.

Qatar will build a smart national power grid to facilitate intelligent and reliable energy distribution as part of its World Cup 2022 strategy, said a senior official.

Speaking at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society, Ibrahim Khamis, Ph.D., described how heat from existing nuclear plants could be used in the more economical production of hydrogen, with future plants custom-built for hydrogen production. He is with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria.

Trạm năng lượng mang tên Gemasolar đã đi vào hoạt động từ tháng 5 năm ngoái, nằm trên một khu đồng bằng rộng lớn của Andalusia.