Renewable Energy News

As Jelani Cobb wrote recently in The New Yorker : "The past year has offered an odd object lesson in historical redundancy.

DW: "Norway derives almost 100 percent of its energy from hydropower. For Germany's planned transition to renewable energy, a close partnership is crucially important, because Norwegian pumped storage power stations could balance out variations in renewable energy sources.

The United States on Friday set new import duties on solar products from China and Taiwan after the Commerce Department found that the solar panels and cells are being sold too cheaply on the U.S. market.

A new material structure generates steam by soaking up the sun. The structure -- a layer of graphite flakes and an underlying carbon foam -- is a porous, insulating material structure that floats on water.

Germany's push toward renewable energy is causing so many drops and surges from wind and solar power that the government is paying more utilities than ever to help stabilize the country's electricity grid.

The sun is the most important energy source on Earth. It provides our daily warmth and light and the rotation and orbit of the earth turn its steady output into fluctuating day and night, summer and winter.

THE carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere in Scotland by renewable energy projects since 2012 was the equivalent of halting every motor vehicle journey for an entire year, according to Scottish Renewables.

Duke Energy is fifth among the nation's 32 largest investor-owned utilities for power produced by renewable energy, according to a new study published by the sustainable investing advocate organization Ceres.

Iowa is proof that clean energy works. We lead the nation in wind power generation and in biofuels production.

FIVE solar energy research teams in Singapore have been awarded up to S$14 million in research grants under the third grant call of the Energy Innovation Research Programme - FIVE solar energy research teams in Singapore have been awarded up to S$14 million in research grants under the third grant call of the Energy Innovation Research Programme .

New research outlines the path to a possible future for California in which renewable energy creates a healthier environment, generates jobs and stabilizes energy prices.

A GERMAN green energy giant has won the first round of its battle to build Britain's biggest solar farm in the Test Valley countryside.

Iowa recently missed out on a $1 million federal grant to beef up its use of solar power - and State Sen. Jack Hatch, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate for governor, took Gov. Terry Branstad to task over the loss on Monday.

Many environmentally related posts appearing at Daily Kos each week don't attract the attention they deserve.

Hudson Valley Community College's satellite campus in Malta, New York could serve as a test site for General Electric's new fuel cell technology, according to college president Andrew Matonak .

Google teamed with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers to back a "Littlebox Challenge" promising to reward whoever comes up with the best design for a device no bigger than a laptop that can efficiently convert direct current to alternating current commonly used in homes and businesses.

Apple's data centre in North Carolina runs on entirely clean energy, supplied by a 400,000-square-metre solar array built by the iPhone maker.

Spinach gave Popeye super strength, but it also holds the promise of a different power for a group of scientists: the ability to convert sunlight into a clean, efficient alternative fuel.

South Dakota's Public Utilities Commission has ruled against an alternative energy producer seeking to force rural electric cooperatives to buy the wind power it plans to generate.

Iberdrola SA, Spain's largest utility, said first-half profit dropped 13 percent after a reduction in renewable-energy subsidies took full effect.