Shenzhen carbon permits sold at 22% below EU’s on first day. Fed efficiency program extended; pollies ranked on renewables; Tesla’s battery swap plans.
‘PlanetSolar’ – the world’s largest solar-powered yacht – arrives in NY as part of a scientific expedition to study key parameters of climate regulation.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has promised to reduce subsidies to Germany’s ‘mature enough’ renewable energy sector after Germany’s September elections.
The world’s energy markets are changing, and the incumbent fossil fuel generators don’t like it. Here’s some graphs to explain why they are losing out.
Masdar has launched an eight-turbine wind farm in the Republic of Seychelles, marking the diesel fuel-dependent archipelago’s inaugural renewables project.
Data collected by the EWEA and GWEC predicts worldwide installed wind power will exceed 300GW of power capacity this year.
UNSW unveils its design for a new solar car – one with four wheels and room for a passenger.
Concentrating solar power could unlock our clean energy future and boost solar from an intermittent contributor to a baseload generator.
The Solar Energy Generating Station project in Southern California, is a great example of how CSP plants can just keep going and going.
A new US study has found that the costs of electric vehicles are now within 10% of competing petrol-powered cars.
A note from the UK grid operator dismisses myths about the level fossil fuel back-up for wind energy and the reduction of emissions.
CEFC eyes wind debt, Buffett eyes solar bonds, E.ON eyes fuel cells, Goldman eyes wind, Asia’s largest solar thermal plant opens.
California sets energy storage target of 1.3GW by 2020; first carbon credit trade by Australian piggery; Gillard-Schwarzenegger team up on climate.
Leichhardt Council says it will invest directly in local renewable energy resources to replace 100% of the power it currently sources from fossil fuels.
ACT utility announces rooftop solar FiT cut to 7.5c/kWh starting July; new deal to boost ocean thermal energy development; Swiss solar inverters hit Aust market.
Two new records set in Q1 2013, with solar power providing 49% of all new US generation capacity, and 723MW capacity installed and put online.
Sydney forced to shelve Cogent trigen plans, but still aims to use the technology, along with renewables, to take the City off grid by 2030.
The implications of ‘solar grid parity’ are enormous, offering consumers a cost-competitive, widespread energy source for developing off-grid power supply.
