Solar photovoltaic (PV) demand from China and Japan during the second half of 2013 is forecast to reach 9 GW, representing an increase of 100% compared to the first half and 70% compared to the second half of 2013, says a new NPD Solarbuzz report.
30 August, 2013
Alterra Power Corp has completed its purchase of the ABW Solar project in partnership with GE Energy Financial Services.
30 August, 2013
Siemens has installed its first offshore platform in the North Sea, linking the Nordsee Ost and Meerwind offshore wind farms to the mainland.
30 August, 2013
Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) president and CEO Rhone Resch released the following statement after learning of the tragic deaths of two First Solar construction supervisors in a plane crash near the Desert Sunlight solar facility in Riverside County, California.
30 August, 2013
FLI Energy has begun construction of a biomethane-to-grid anaerobic digestion (AD)plant in Suffolk, UK.
30 August, 2013
Wales-based IQE plc says that its wafers have been independently certified as achieving 44.1% cell efficiency by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), potentially setting a new world record for production scale concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) wafer technology.
29 August, 2013
Researchers from the James Hutton Institute, the University of Dundee, VIB and Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of Wisconsin (USA) have identified a new lignin gene which could improve the conversion of biomass to energy.
29 August, 2013
Voith subsidiary Kössler GmbH & Co KG is expanding its location in Sankt Georgen am Steinfeld, Austria, by extablishing a new hydropower engineering center and a new production hall for final assembly.
29 August, 2013
A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) says that, in the US, by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive without federal subsidies.
28 August, 2013
Gevo, reportedly the world's only commercial producer of bio-isobutanol,has opened a demonstration-scale paraxylene plant in Silsbee, Texas.
28 August, 2013
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to provide US$230 million backing to support investment in hydropower, wind, geothermal and photovoltaic renewable energy schemes across Central America.
28 August, 2013
Belgian investor and project developer NPG Energy has contracted WELTEC BIOPOWER GmbH to set up a biogas plant.
28 August, 2013
Scientists at Michigan Technological University have developed a new inexpensive 3D graphene that could replace the platinum in solar cells without degrading their efficiency.
27 August, 2013
Scientists at the University of Michigan have developed what they say is a more efficient and less wasteful biofuel that uses corn stalks and leave waste to create isobutanol.
27 August, 2013
Haiti-based Sonamar SA and Bangalore-based VayuGrid have signed a joint venture agreement to develop agricultural zones in Haiti to produce biofuels for the country.
27 August, 2013
Gehrlicher Solar America Corp has completed building a 4 MW solar array, phase 1 of a 7.2 MWp solar park for UniSource Energy Service (UES) in Rio Rico, Arizona.
27 August, 2013
Demand for energy storage systems in Asia-Pacific has been boosted by escalating electricity prices, improving grid reliability and demand for electricity, says a report from Frost & Sullivan.
26 August, 2013
According to a new report by Frost & Sullivan, renewable energy capacity will be at 2252.3 gigawatts in 2020, with a gradual shift in the market to emerging economies.
26 August, 2013
Vestas has received an order for 21 MW from Vindkraft Ukraina LLC for its Beregovaya and Stavki wind power plants, located in the Kherson region of the country.
26 August, 2013
From April 2015, biomass producers in the UK will be required to demonstrate their fuel is sustainable or lose financial support from the government.
23 August, 2013
Brazilian government energy agency EPE has approved 377 wind projects with a combined installed capacity of 8.999GW.
23 August, 2013
Magellan Power has released Solar Gate, technology which could help those with large solar installations keep the energy they generate for their own use.
23 August, 2013
Goldpoly New Energy Holdings Limited has entered into an agreement with a number of Chinese solar companies to buy 400MW of solar power plants.
23 August, 2013
Enphase Energy says that its Enphase System microinverters are being installed at a 2.3MW (2MW AC) solar project in Ontario, Canada.
22 August, 2013
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India and the US Department of Energy (DOE) have developed an online Indian Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policy Database (IREEED) that aims at disseminating information on the renewable energy and energy efficiency policy and regulatory framework in India.
22 August, 2013
A rising demand for green electricity across Europe could boost investment in countries’ transmission and distribution (T&D) infrastructure, says research and consulting firm GlobalData.
22 August, 2013
IBM has developed power and weather modelling technology that could help utilities increase the reliability of renewable energy resources.
22 August, 2013
SolarCity Corp is to purchase the assets of Paramount Energy Solutions LLC, which does business under the name of Paramount Solar, a subsidiary of Paramount Equity, for approximately US$120 million.
21 August, 2013
Packers Plus Energy Services Inc and its partner Geodynamics Limited have successfully completed a vertical geothermal well as part of the Geodynamics Innamincka Deeps Project in the Cooper Basin of South Australia.
21 August, 2013
Lignol Energy Corporation (LEC), a specialist in advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals, plans to invest up to a further A$1,000,000 in Territory Biofuels Limited (TBF), the owner of the largest biodiesel plant in Australia.
21 August, 2013
The Scottish government has put aside £3 million for people living in fuel poverty get their own green energy supply.
21 August, 2013
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new low-cost, reliable rechargeable flow battery that could offer suitable energy storage for intermittent renewable energy.
21 August, 2013
Duke Energy Renewables has acquired Sunset Reservoir Solar Power Project, a 4.5 megawatt AC solar plant, from solar developer Recurrent Energy.
21 August, 2013
The installed price of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the United States fell substantially in 2012 and through the first half of 2013, according to the latest edition of Tracking the Sun, an annual cost report produced by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
20 August, 2013
Swiss scientists have developed flexible, light-weight cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells that have an increased efficiency of 11.5 per cent.
20 August, 2013
DONG Energy has entered into cooperation with an academic consortium of three UK universities to find ways to reduce the cost of energy from offshore wind turbines.
20 August, 2013
In the latest Renewable Energy Focus blog, we learn about the European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI)'s Pyroformer™, a mobile machine that uses a thermal treatment process for up to 100 Kg/h of biomass feed.
20 August, 2013
Quarterly solar photovoltaic (PV) module shipments for 20 leading PV manufacturers exceeded 5.8 GW during the second quarter of 2013, a growth of 21% from Q2 2012.
19 August, 2013
Mitsubishi Corp has acquired 50 per cent stakes in two solar power stations in France from EDF Energies Nouvelles SA.
19 August, 2013
GE has opened the Paldiski Wind Farm on the Pakri peninsula in northwestern Estonia.
19 August, 2013
German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex has signed a multi-year supply agreement with TPI Composites, USA, for the delivery of NR-58.5 rotor blades. TPI will manufacture the blades in Turkey.
16 August, 2013
The furniture retail giant is buying the 7.65MW Carrickeeny Wind Farm from Mainstream Renewable Power.
13 August, 2013
“Solar is critically important to our nation’s energy security and national security – and we’re doing our part to fight climate change,” said the head of the Solar Energy Industries Association, Rhone Resch, stressing the sector has a key role to play to ensure the lights stay on should disaster strike.
13 August, 2013
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12 August, 2013
The measurement and verification (M&V) industry, which monitors energy consumption in buildings, is now moving toward real-time performance tracking, which is set to dominate the market.
09 August, 2013
The EU-backed All-gas project, the world’s largest project to convert algae into low-cost clean energy using wastewater, has successfully grown its first crop of algae biomass at its site in Chiclana, Southern Spain.
09 August, 2013
Aberdeen, UK-based energy services group SeaEnergy plc and Robert Gordon University (RGU) have launched a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to improve the life cycle cost of operations and maintenance (O&M) strategies in offshore windfarms.
09 August, 2013
The US Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working with Ecopetrol, the largest oil company in Colombia, to process the residue from sugar cane and palm oil harvesting into fuel ethanol for blending with gasoline.
08 August, 2013
GE and First Solar have formed a technology partnership to improve PV thin-film solar cells and modules.
08 August, 2013
Offshore wind power specialist Deepwater Wind New England LLC has won the US government’s lease sale for renewable energy in federal waters, gaining two leases for a wind energy area of 66,671 hectares offshore Rhode Island and Massachusetts for wind energy development.
08 August, 2013
Alstom has opened a factory in Canoas in Rio Grande do Sul State, in the southern part of Brazil, with the capacity to produce 120 steel towers per year – enough to supply approximately 350 MW of electricity.
08 August, 2013
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07 August, 2013
British renewables firm Hallidays Hydropower plans to develop a £180,000 micro hydropower scheme on the River Glyme, in the parks of world heritage site and stately home Blenheim Palace.
07 August, 2013
GCube, a provider of renewable energy insurance services, has published a report summarising the most common wind energy insurance claims made in the United States.
07 August, 2013
Renewable energy consultant GL Garrad Hassan is providing expertise to the Hawaii National Marine Renewable Energy Center (HINMREC)’s wave energy testing programme.
07 August, 2013
UK government and business have published a long-term strategy to strengthen the UK’s position in the offshore wind industry.
07 August, 2013
While annual wind power additions in the United States achieved record levels in 2012, wind energy pricing is near an all-time low, says a new report released by the US Department of Energy.
07 August, 2013
Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK have developed capacitors that can operate at high temperatures, especially designed for use in electric vehicles (EV).
07 August, 2013
TÜV SÜD has put together a wind atlas for the state of Rhineland Palatinate in south-west Germany.
07 August, 2013
Global wind and solar developer Mainstream Renewable Power and Japanese trading company Marubeni Corporation have agreed a €100 million equity investment deal in which Marubeni gains an around 25 per cent holding in Mainstream.
07 August, 2013
310 Solar Energy has installed a photovoltaic solar power plant at the Vermejo Park Ranch, a 590,823 acre ranch in northeastern New Mexico owned by media mogul, and renewable energy advocate, Ted Turner.
07 August, 2013
The SCHMID Group says that its 5500 Series APCVD conveyor furnace is well positioned to meet the current requirements for PV cell manufacture coming from China, due to its 18% production efficiency.
06 August, 2013
Community leaders in San Francisco have put together a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) plan, CleanPowerSF, with the aim of building of local, renewable energy generation facilities in the city of San Francisco.
06 August, 2013
Gamesa has won a contract to supply 138 MW for a wind farm on Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a narrow strip of land between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean.
05 August, 2013
Following its bankruptcy filing a few weeks ago, PV specialist Gehrlicher Solar AG could have a new investor.
05 August, 2013
Electricity generated from renewable sources in the UK in 2012 increased by 19 per cent on 2011, according to official figures published by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.
05 August, 2013
The world solar PV market saw a pickup in June, enjoying a “warm summer of demand” according to Bloomberg’s Solar Shipment Index.
05 August, 2013