A new research centre at The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, will lead Read more...
"Science & Tech Expo" "Eco Expo" are the logos of preparation work for Shanghai World Expo. The ongoing constructions in the park have used a number of latest technology, new ideas, renewable energy, and new materials. By doing this, the expo tries to create an ideal eco environment with blue sky, clear water and vast vegetation, highlighting its theme "better city ,better life". Read more...
Sustainable practices are no longer the concept of saving energy, but also involved with Read more...
Portugal is going to use the world's first commercial sized wave power station. In recent years Portugal has made the best of its long coastline and sufficient sunlight to develop sustainable energy. A little earlier, the Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates improved the target of the renewable energy generation from 39% to 45%. The station is located 3 miles off the the northern coast, with three generating sets called "sea snakes", which are designed by the Scottish company Pelamis Wave Power. Read more...
The Marine Energy Accelerator (MEA) program started by UK Carbon Trust in November 2008, aims to accelerate progress in cost reduction of marine energy (wave and tidal stream energy) technologies, to bring forward the time when marine energy becomes cost-competitive so that significant carbon emissions reductions are achieved. Read more...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended the foundation stone laying ceremony of the mixing-energy power station in Prenzlau, Brandenburg, Germany. The 21 million-euros-funded station combines wind, hydrogen, biomass, and solar power together, and is said to hold a capacity of 6MW by 2010. Read more...
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province recently finished the construction of a high-power GPRS wereless-communicating auto weather station for the wind and light complementary electricity-generation on Mount Wutong. To overcome the harsh high-altitude weather conditions and the power supply difficulty, it is the first weather station powered by wind and light. Read more...
Shangyi County, Hebei Province built Shenhua demonstration plot of 20KW Wind & 20 KW Light complementary electricity-generation in Jun 2006. It came to operation in Oct 2008, and began to take full advantage of the complementarity of wind and solar power to alleviate the drawbacks of one single renewable energy. Read more...
The Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge created the world's first commercial Brushless Doubly-Fed Generator (BDFG), Mar 2009. It now successfully generates power for Whittle Laboratory. This project team is led by Dr Richard McMahon, and backed by the company Wind Technologies Limited. Read more...
The Renewable Energy World Conference & Expo North America will be held during February 23 - 25, 2010 in Austin, TX. Submission of the papers is due on 07/08/09. Read more...
Vestas, the world’s biggest maker of wind turbines, announced that it was cutting 1,900 jobs maining in Denmark and Britain. Read more...
China plans to finish 100 gigawatts of wind power capacity by 2020. This goal is more than three times of the 30 GW target that the government set 18 months ago. Read more...
(BBC) After the successful construction of the Robin Rigg offshore wind farm, the energy tycoon E.on wants to build up more than 100 turbines off the western coast to generate enough energy to power 195,000 homes. Read more...
(BBC) Construction work of the Whitelee development on Eaglesham Mooron in Scotland is set to be completed. The 140 turbines will produce enough electricity to power 180,000 homes and more wind turbines are planned to follow up. Read more...
(BBC) Aberdeen's proposed offshore wind farm has taken a step forward after a major European funding boost--MEPs have approved 40 million euros for the project. The wind farm project is a joint venture between Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG) and Swedish utility company Vattenfall. It is regarded as the largest European wind farm. Read more...
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has passed a treatypact that approves energy-storage market rules for the New York Independent System Operator power grid: Read more...
(Gaurdian) The British energy regulator, Ofgem, has said that it will allow a temporary relaxation from the rules governing the electricity networks to speed up connections for low-carbon generators, especially for the wind farms. This initially means that 450 megawatts (MW) of small and large wind farms can get connected in Scotland as soon as they are ready. Other generators that come forward (including other renewable generators and thermal generators) will also benefit from the same approach. Read more...
A new academic book by David MacKay, a physics professor at the University of Cambridge, surprisingly hit this year's must-read book by his ironic and humourous writing about our future energy needs and how we could supply them. Read more...
The UK Carbon Trust, which recently opened its first office in China, has signed a £10m deal with the China Energy Conservation Investment Corporation (CECIC) which aims to increase the transfer of low-carbon businesses from the UK to China. Read more...
According to Reuters, the recent statistics show that renewable energy companies could still provide substantial returns for private equity investors this year as many others are surviving the economic slowdown. This optimistic picture is painted by the two main actors--the UK and the US governments' supportive policies and the industry's special features. Read more...
BusinessWeek reviews the tremendous potential of developing wind energy in China and comments that "there’s enormous demand, so the pie is big enough for everybody". Read more...
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin has published a research article calling the government to pay special attention to formulating the country's energy policies. Read more...
"China is probably going to be the world's number one renewable energy country," new documentary claims. Read more...