Các nhà khoa học thuộc đại học tổng hợp Cornell đang có hi vọng dùng một số loại vi khuẩn trong chất thải nhà máy bia để sản xuất xăng sinh học và các sản phẩm hữu ích khác. Largus T. Angenent, phó giao sư ngành kỹ thuật sinh học và môi trường, tác giả chính cùng trợ lý Jeffrey J. Werner gần đây đã đăng một bài viết về nghiên cứu của mình trên tạp chí Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Biên bản của Viện hàn lâm khoa học quốc gia).

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 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.

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.

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.

Đó là một trong những kết luận của bản báo cáo Solar Generation 6 trong cuộc nghiên cứu do Hiệp hội Công nghiệp Quang điện Châu Âu (EPIA) và Greenpeace International thực hiện. Theo ước tính của nghiên cứu này, quang đện có thể đáp ứng 12% nhu cầu của châu Âu tới năm 2020 và 9% nhu cầu toàn thế giới tới năm 2030.

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.

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.

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.

Germany, a pioneer in many renewable energy initiatives, is also at the forefront of creating environment-friendly toys aimed at making kids think about where energy comes from and how much of it they can use, raising awareness through play.

VEEPL là một sáng kiến chung của Chương trình Phát triển Liên hợp quốc (UNDP), Quỹ Môi trường Toàn cầu (GEF) và Chính phủ Việt Nam do Viện Khoa học và Công nghệ Việt Nam triển khai thực hiện. Đây là một Dự án được đánh giá là rất thành công và được các doanh nghiệp rất ủng hộ, mong muốn kéo dài thời gian thực hiện. Tuy nhiên, chỉ còn 6 tháng nữa, Dự án sẽ kết thúc. Bản tin TKNL đã có cuộc trao đổi với GS.TS. Phan Hồng Khôi – Giám đốc Điều hành Dự án về những vấn đề liên quan đến VEEPL.

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.