The highly inefficient incandescent light bulb is now a thing of the past, banned from European supermarket shelves in favour of more efficient lighting. The ban is part of the EU’s strategy to reduce overall energy consumption and become more…
Category: Renewable
Boosting sustainability policy in Russia
Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area. So it is in everyone’s interest to see that its lawmakers deliver sound policies when it comes to environmental sustainability.
Sunshine to feed the world
By Sarah Marshall, B.S. Environmental Policy
Norway opens doors for a major onshore wind power boost
OSLO – Norway’s oil and energy ministry said on Monday it has granted licences to build eight wind power farms with a combined 1,300-megawatt capacity in a major boost for wind power development in the Nordic country. The ministry said…
Natural gas could be a bridge fuel to $1 solar
By Gerard Wynn
Storage battery breakthrough boosts solar, wind energy
MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable flow battery that doesn’t rely on expensive membranes to generate and store electricity. The device, they say, may one day enable cheaper, large-scale energy storage.
Clean energy fuels and profits: Are we there yet?
By Jason Hall
European wind industry faces critical skills shortage
The European wind industry has grown so rapidly over the past decade that it is facing a critical shortage of skilled personnel, a new report reveals.
Green Bank helps fund N Ireland’s renewable energy project
Foresight Group and the UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) have announced the investment of £20 million to build the Evermore Renewable Energy 15.8MWe wood fuelled combined heat and power (CHP) station to be constructed on a ten acre site…
Gravity-powered lamp to enter field tests
EEP Energy and Environment Partnership
Breakthrough discovery generates electricity from carbon dioxide
A pioneering new method could produce electricity equal to about 400 times the annual output of the Hoover Dam from carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas.
Deep water wind turbines could power Europe four times over
Deep water wind turbines are key to unlocking the massive energy potential in Europe’s Atlantic and Mediterranean seas and the deepest parts of the North Sea, a new report from the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) shows. The report reveals…
Algae biofuels deemed unsuitable for developing nations
Significant uncertainties about the development of algae biofuels and a lack of research and development capabilities make this potential energy source an unsuitable option for developing countries, according to researchers from the UN University in Japan.
UK gives green light for world’s largest offshore wind farm
The UK wind energy industry has received a huge boost with news that the Government has given the go-ahead for the construction of two huge wind farm projects.
Philippines plans 100 percent renewables in 10 years
Manila —The Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Director, Alexander Ochs, met with the Climate Change Commission (CCC) and high-level representatives of the federal and provincial governments of the Philippines recently to lay groundwork for a Sustainable Energy Roadmap for the…
Survey reveals UK farmers’ demand for renewables
More than three-quarters of farmers don’t feel the potential for on-farm renewable energy is being met, according to new figures.
Thinner and lighter solar cells
Solar cells have been changing for years and gradually becoming less expensive, more compact and more efficient. Most efforts at improving solar cells have focused on increasing the efficiency of their energy conversion, or on lowering the cost of manufacturing.…
Over 50,000 solar home systems being installed a month: WB
Bangladesh celebrated the installation of 2 million solar home systems this month thanks to the hard work of the Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) and the Partner Organisations.
Offshore floating wind turbines
RenewableUK has heralded new announcements today which will bring floating turbines a step closer to UK waters and open up the possibility of further developments.
Japanese breakthrough may make wind power cheaper
A surprising aerodynamic innovation in wind turbine design called the ‘wind lens’ could triple the output of a typical wind turbine, making it less costly than nuclear power.
Drilling of 9th Bakhrabad gas well begin
The state-owned Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Ltd (BGFCL) has started drilling at the ninth well of Bakhrabad Gas Field in Muradngar upazila of the district on Sunday noon.
Wind power storage
Andy Soos, ENN
Solar power close to cost parity with other sources
They said it couldn’t be done. They tried to tell us that renewable energy could only survive if it were propped up with government subsidies.
Electric vehicle charging network takes root
Tina Casey, Tripple Pundit via ENN The issue of electric vehicle range anxiety got a thorough airing last week, in the now notorious Tesla vs The New York Times battle. It started when Times reporter John Broder wrote a story…
UK’s 630MW wind energy site completed
ClickGreen staff/ENN Construction of the 125th and last turbine at the London Array Offshore Wind Farm has been completed, marking the end of major construction activities at the massive 630MW renewable energy site. Turbine installation began in January 2012 and…
World record in non-grid power generation
Grameen Shakti (GS) has reached its first landmark of one million Solar Home Systems (SHS) installation in the rural areas of the country on November 30, says a GS press release. Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus established Grameen Shakti in…