To give those customers more options for geeking out on energy use, SolarCity has a new app, MySolarCity, which shows real-time home energy usage and offers basic energy assessments, as well as providing social network via which users can share their solar experiences.

“The introduction of solar as the scheme’s first renewable energy product is a fantastic addition to Warm Up North’s range of energy efficiency solutions that will allow even more households to save energy and money.

The new "L-CSC" supercomputer at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research is ranked as the world's most energy-efficient supercomputer.

The Victorian Labor Party has sought to underline its renewable energy credentials by vowing to help the town of Newstead, near Bendigo, to become 100 per cent renewable energy by 2017, and become the state’s first “solar town”.

Đảng Lao động Victoria, Úc đã tìm cách đề cao vai trò của năng lượng tái tạo trong các tuyên bố của mình bằng dự án giúp Newstead, một thị trấn gần Bendigo trở thành thị trấn sử dụng 100% năng lượng tái tạo vào năm 2017. Đồng thời biến đây trở thành "Đô thị năng lượng mặt trời" đầu tiên trên cả nước Úc.

Amazon has been under pressure for a while to get its act together when it comes to renewable energy (just last week we wrote about how shopping on Amazon is powered by coal).

With the number of Internet connected devices rapidly increasing, researchers from Melbourne are starting a new research program to reduce energy consumption of such devices.

According to Lisa Rathke of the Associated Press, energy-saving program Efficiency Vermont has helped ski resorts all over the state make huge strides, with 2,300 new energy-efficient snowmaking guns replacing older wasteful ones.

According to the EPA, using recycled aluminum only uses 5% of the energy and emissions that are needed to extract new aluminum.

Ernst & Young đã thực hiện một cuộc khảo sát với đối tượng là các hộ gia đình Úc tại các bang như Victoria, New South Wales và Queensland. Kết quả thu được là 9 trên 10 hộ gia đình Úc đang và sẽ cân nhắc chuyển sang sử dụng năng lượng mặt trời.

The new energy efficiency standard’s positive environmental impact includes 3.63 quadrillion BTU’s of energy saved during the above mentioned period, that translates in avoiding 265 million metric tons of CO2 emissions equivalent to the annual emissions of about 52 million automobiles.

Nine out of 10 Australians have considered, or would consider, switching to solar energy as a way to cut their power bills, a new survey has found.

Washington State University researchers have developed a new catalyst that could lead to making biofuels cheaply and more efficiently.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched a new initiative to accelerate the transition to more efficient appliances and equipment to reduce global energy demand, mitigate climate change and improve access to energy.

Texas Tech University researchers will receive $1.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a new radar prototype that will provide better measurements of the complex flow conditions in wind plants.

All eyes are on New York City this week, as world leaders come together for the U.N. Climate Summit – an event that aspires to shape the national and global energy future.

Hội nghị thượng đỉnh Liên Hiệp Quốc về biến đổi khí hậu gần đây nhất vừa diễn ra ở thành phố New York – đây là một sự kiện nhằm định hình tương lai năng lượng của mỗi quốc gia và thế giới.

A new project helps give kids a safe place to play soccer in a Rio de Janeiro favela by using kinetic-energy harvesting tiles to produce electricity for keeping the lights on.

The Environment Ministry will begin a model project in which surplus electricity generated from renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, will be utilized to produce hydrogen for fuel-cell vehicles.

Tại hội nghị thượng đỉnh Khí hậu do Liên Hợp Quốc tổ chức tại New York (Mỹ), VN cam kết cắt giảm khí thải và tiết kiệm năng lượng, đồng thời kêu gọi sự hỗ trợ của các nước phát triển.