The past few years has seen Google embark on an ambitous program of investment in the renewables space, the most recent announcement seeing Google investing $200 million in a Texas wind farm. So where else has Google been putting its money?
31 January, 2013
Three of the world’s biggest car manufacturers – Ford, Nissan and Daimler, the company behind Mercedes Benz, have signed a three-way hydrogen fuel cell development agreement in an effort to bring affordable, mass market fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) to market by 2017.
30 January, 2013
The US risks losing out to its foreign competitors in the clean energy marketplace because of the government’s failure to develop a long-term, consistent energy policy...
30 January, 2013
Around this time of year everyone and their dog does a review of the year just gone, or a preview for the year to come, often in the form of a ‘Top 10’.
30 January, 2013
A consortium of companies in the UK with expertise in hydrogen transport infrastructure is launching the London Hydrogen Network Expansion (LHNE) project, to roll out the UK’s first hydrogen powered transport system across London and the South East.
30 January, 2013
The UK and the Republic of Ireland have signed a key agreement that will enable the two countries to trade renewable power with each other by 2020.
30 January, 2013
The US government has granted $10 million to unlock the potential of biofuels made from algae, in an effort to diversify the fuels used in transport.
30 January, 2013
Global electronics conglomerate Panasonic has completed a 500kW solar PV installation at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), as part of the university’s efforts to decarbonise its campus.
30 January, 2013
The global installed capacity of utility-scale solar power stations hit the 9GW mark in 2012 after another record year of installations of power stations rated 10MW and higher, analysis from Wiki-Solar has revealed.
30 January, 2013
The UK Government’s pay-as-you-save scheme, the Green Deal, has gone live, offering domestic households access to energy saving home improvements without any upfront costs for the first time.
30 January, 2013
Oil giant Repsol is to enter the tidal energy business following an agreement for the company to partner tidal stream tidal manufacturer Tocardo International.
30 January, 2013
Nordex is to supply its N117 turbines for a 50.4MW wind farm in the Florida district of southern Uruguay, currently being developed by French developer Akuo.
30 January, 2013
A new research project launched by the University of Dundee aims to look at “mooring and anchoring” systems for wave power projects, after the marine power industry warned that anchoring problems were threatening to “stall and limit” wave developments.
25 January, 2013
German energy group Juwi is set to construct five PV projects with a total capacity of 48MW in two provinces in northwestern and eastern Thailand - and in response to Thailand’s 2011 floods it plans to make the projects flood-protected.
25 January, 2013
The company has now purchased the three turbines, three 2MW G80 turbines, from Spanish manufacturer Gamesa.
25 January, 2013
ABB in Greece has been awarded contracts to supply solar inverters for around 33MW of solar power in different projects across mainland Greece – all of which are due to be commissioned in the coming months.
25 January, 2013
The global growth of renewable energy over the last few years cannot be disputed, but can it really play a major role in the world of large-scale electricity generation?
23 January, 2013
In his inaugural speech for his second term in office, U.S. President Barack Obama has upped the ante, promising to show global leadership on climate change and support the development of clean energy...
23 January, 2013
The 161 MW Spinning Spur Wind Project is located in Oldham County in the Texas Panhandle, and was built by EDF Renewable Energy
23 January, 2013
EWEA 2013 is just a few weeks away. So what can conference delegates expect to be the main topics up for debate?
23 January, 2013
EWEA CEO Christian Kjaer has been an ever-present force for the premier wind power lobbying organisation EWEA as it has driven the wind industry forward in Europe over the past decade or so. He will leave the post later this year...
22 January, 2013
A new report released on the sidelines of the World Future Energy Summit claims that even if all electricity is to be generated through renewable energy (RE) sources, and with solar photovoltaics (PV) alone, it would take up only an "insignificant" amount of total land area, contrary to common perception.
22 January, 2013
The Chinese end-market dominated shipments of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels during the final quarter of 2012 with 33% of global end-market demand, according to new research released in the NPD Solarbuzz Quarterly report.
22 January, 2013
Dow Corning says it will help support Crystal's venture-funded "breakthrough" technology - a “direct gas to module” process using an epitaxial chemical vapor deposition (CVD) approach.
22 January, 2013
The ¥70 million (approximately US $900,000) contract from Mitsui (MES) will be to further develop the Company’s PowerBuoy technology for Japanese sea conditions.
22 January, 2013
Almost half of all new generating capacity installed in the United States during 2012 was renewable, a new report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has said.
22 January, 2013
Kyocera is to supply solar panels and services to Japan’s first community solar power project in the Wakayama Prefecture and Kyoto city, after signing a supply agreement with the project developers, Kyocera said late last week.
22 January, 2013
RWE Innogy and BMR Windenergie plan to commission the Jüchen wind farm this week after installing the four 3.4MW turbines over the past six months on the site of RWE Power’s Garzweiler opencast mine.
22 January, 2013
Trina Solar has supplied 61MW of PV modules to a large-scale solar project on a former military airfield in the state of Brandenburg, Germany.
22 January, 2013
The UK has launched a national centre for solar PV, in an effort to deliver the government’s goal of 20GW of installed capacity by 2020, up from 1.4GW at present.
22 January, 2013
Gamesa has secured a ten-year full service operations and maintenance (O&M) contract for one of the largest operating wind farms in the eastern United States.
22 January, 2013
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute’s Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) have embarked on a €8 million research programme which aims to automate the manufacture of wind turbine rotor blades.
22 January, 2013
Germany’s Availon has signed a major contract with Japanese wind turbine maintenance firm EOS Engineering and Service for the supply of 80 wind turbine grid coupling contactors.
22 January, 2013
Despite the uncertain global economy, attendance figures for EWEA 2013 are up on 2012...
15 January, 2013
In a discussion during the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), leaders focused on the growing opportunities for sovereign wealth funds, development banks and pension funds to view the new energy industry as a growth opportunity, especially in developing economies.
15 January, 2013
China has announced it will join the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), a milestone in international efforts to double the share of renewable energy worldwide by 2030.
15 January, 2013
A new publication from Elsevier, developed by the IEA Implementing Agreement for Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (IEA-RETD), explores six policy categories that are "essential" for the acceleration of renewable energy deployment.
15 January, 2013
Danish biomass firm DP CleanTech has agreed a deal with Polish Energy Partners (PEP) to build a 30MW straw-fired power plant in Winsko, south west Poland.
15 January, 2013
MidAmerican Renewables has acquired two adjacent solar projects in southern California – together the “largest permitted solar PV development in the world” - from SunPower Corp.
15 January, 2013
French utility EDF has brought its 143MW Catalina solar project in California one step closer to completion with the sale of a majority stake in the scheme, closing financing for the project.
15 January, 2013
Facilities at the French ports of Cherbourg and Caen-Ouistreham are to undergo a multi-million euro expansion to pave the way for the development of tidal energy projects in the area.
15 January, 2013
Eight European nations have committed a total of €47 million over the next three years to develop innovative bioenergy projects throughout Europe, and stimulate up to €100 million in further private investment in the technology.
15 January, 2013
In the US, WATT Fuel Cell Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems, has signed a strategic licensing and supply deal with industrial giant Parker Hannifin.
10 January, 2013
E.ON has awarded Great Yarmouth-based Alicat Workboats a contract to build four new state of the art vessels to support its offshore wind generation portfolio. The first to be built will serve E.ON's 180MW Robin Rigg wind farm in the Solway Firth.
03 January, 2013
Two Californian wind energy projects have reached completion, bringing 300MW of new capacity onto the state’s grid, developer MidAmerican wind said on Monday.
03 January, 2013
The renewable energy industry’s new year has kicked off to a good start after the United States’ Congress extended the wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) by one year as part of a package of measures to avert a “fiscal cliff” in the US budget.
03 January, 2013
Trina Solar is to supply up to 55MW of solar PV modules to renewables developer Anesco over the coming months.
02 January, 2013
Spain’s Iberdrola has selected offshore wind turbines from French giant Areva for its 400MW Wikinger offshore wind power project 35km off Germany’s Baltic Sea coast.
02 January, 2013
The UK’s state-backed Green Investment Bank (GIB) has struck its first deal in the offshore wind sector, contributing to a £224 million re-financing of OPW’s 24.8% stake in the 367 MW Walney offshore wind farm.
02 January, 2013
Solar firm Ciel et Terre has launched a large-scale floating solar power generation system – the “world’s first”, according to the French company.
02 January, 2013