The state of Haryana, based in Northern India has started making real progress towards going solar with new government energy policy. All buildings with a footprint of 418 square metres or more are now required to install this rooftop solar...
During December 2014, New York took a small step towards the city’s vision of turning utility companies into operators of distributed client-centric power grid assets. The decision is now left up to Consolidated Edison, in...
In order to drastically improve energy efficiency, the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has pledged $60 million towards the funding of 22 new and contemporary projects. The goal of the projects include the...
Finnish technology developers AW-Energy has decided to commercialise its WaveRoller™ technology. Mid-August 2014, the company went on to sign a Framework agreement with the independent certification organisation, Lloyd’s Register Energy. This alliance agreement will allow...
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, within the Department of Energy has announced a presentation of a 45.7% conversion efficiency regarding a four-junction solar cell at 234 times the sun’s concentration. Such an accomplishment demonstrates one of...
Scotland’s solar capacity has risen by almost 1/3 within the past year according to new statistics that have been released. With more than 35,000 homes and close to 600 businesses that have installed solar photovoltaic systems, it seems...
The solar and wind industries have long dreamt of producing energy at a price that is equal to the cost of energy sourced from fossil fuel. Now, that time seems to be getting close. Fossil fuel...
Pope Francis has influenced and changed the stuffy thought patterns normally associated to the Vatican, has aided in defrosting relations between the USA and Cuba and now has set his sights set on bringing to...
The solar industry is certainly beginning to establish itself in the United States, but it’s too soon to say whether the biggest performer of the clean energy world is off the hook. If truth be told, for...
A recent survey reveals that in the eyes of the corporate data center sector, the future rests on renewable energy. 84% of survey respondents feel that they need to look at renewable energy such as solar...
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We hear a lot about clean energy these days as residential homes and businesses alike increasingly choose renewable sources over fossil fuels, the most popular and accessible of which being solar power. Using solar reduces pollution and has been...
Data reports by the Department of the Environment has indicated that annual emissions up to June 2014 indicate that it has dropped by 1.4%. This notable decrease was seen within the second full year of the...
Society uses vast amounts of energy to power homes and businesses, the majority of which is sourced from fossil fuel. However, in recent times the energy industry has been steadily evolving as societies beome increasingly aware...
Leading solar technology producer, SunEdison announced in December last year that it had secured a deal with both Barclays and Citi in order to fund a portfolio of distributed generation solar power projects. These projects will...
A 165-megawatt Cameron wind farm in Southern Texas was purchased by Ikea, the world’s largest furniture retailer. This gave way to the rise of the company’s most extensive renewable energy investment to date which they...
Traditional fossil fuel energy companies have held a monopoly on the electricity sector for a long time and would like for the public to see the industry as too complex to comprehend, when the actual fact is,...
