As of 2010, 57% of electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean stems from hydro sources while another 40% comes from thermoelectric power plants using fossil fuels and natural gas. Of the remainder, 2% comes from nuclear stations and 1% from wind, solar and geothermal plants.

Wadebridge đang tiến tới trở thành thành phố mặt trời đầu tiên tại Anh khi việc lắp đặt quang điện đã bắt đầu được triển khai trên thành phố này. Mục tiêu của Wadebridge là tới năm 2015 sẽ sản xuất được ít nhất 1/3 lượng điện năng từ các nguồn mặt trời và gió, tương đương với 15,000 MWh mỗi năm. Ở mức này, thành phố Wadebridge sẽ có thể thu được một khoản lợi nhuận đáng kể từ nguồn thuế FiTs của Anh để đầu tư vào các dự án công cộng tại đây.

Nhà máy năng lượng Mặt Trời lớn nhất thế giới đã bắt đầu được khởi công xây dựng cuối tuần qua tại hạt Riverside, Nam California. Ước tính dự án này sẽ tạo ra 3.470 MW năng lượng, tương đương 6% nhu cầu năng lượng của California, đủ để cung cấp điện cho hơn 1,4 triệu hộ gia đình.

Accordingly, to end of 2011, the country will have four ethanol fuel manufacturing facilities in operation with the design capacity of 300,000 tons per year, enough to produce about 6 million tons of E5 petrol to serve domestic consumption.

Demand for energy in Vietnam tends to increase faster than the speed of economic development. Therefore, energy efficiency and conservation is very important for the development of the country's economy and businesses. Aware of this, Hanoi Kim Bai beer JSC has implemented energy saving, firstly energy audit, to identify opportunities to reduce energy costs.

"It basically becomes a stovetop, and you can heat anything you need to," said Sam Major, a member of the team with seniors Daniel Rist, David Luker and William Dunk. "As long as the autoclave reaches 121 Celsius (250 F) for 30 minutes (the standard set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), everything should be sterile, and we've found we're able to do that pretty easily.

Wadebridge in Cornwall has moved another step towards becoming the first solar powered town in the UK, as PV installations begin to go up across the municipality. The area aims to generate at least a third of its electricity from solar and wind power by 2015, which is the equivalent of 15,000MWh a year. By generating renewable energy at this level, Wadebridge will be able to benefit significantly from the UK’s feed-in tariff, enabling significant cash contributions for local community projects.

The Stevens Institute of Technology Chemical Engineering Senior Design team of Rachel Kenion, Liana Vaccari, and Katie Van Strander designed, fabricated, and tested biochar electrodes for supercapacitors. The group is advised by Dr. Woo Lee, the George Meade Bond Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.

Ministers have tried to address public lack of trust in energy companies by offering assurances about the “Green Deal” – a policy designed to improve the energy efficiency of homes. Under this plan, any householder will be able to spend up to £10,000 making their home more energy efficient, funded by the savings from future gas and electricity bills.

Germany's solar photovoltaic (PV) industry now employs more workers than steel production in the USA. With over 100,000 "green jobs" in PV alone, around 75 percent of European solar cells and modules as well as countless components are made in Germany. Record-breaking domestic demand is a key industry driver, with 7.4 GWp of PV capacity installed in 2010.

A series of new, larger turbines with longer blades have been launched into the market recently as manufacturers strive to deliver the lowest cost of energy with the next generation of designs. London, UK A trend towards larger capacity turbines with longer blades and larger rotor diameters has been long established, with OEMs continuing to offer existing machines with a range of rotor diameters. But now, a new generation of still larger machines has been unveiled.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is backing a drive to increase solar energy capacity in Asia-Pacific by six-fold to 3,000 megawatts by 2013.The ADB plans to provide up to US$2.25 billion in financing for solar projects and draw in a further $6.75 billion, mainly from the private sector, said Xiaoyu Zhao, vice-president for operations.

The US administration will only buy vehicles using alternative energy sources to equip its fleet by the end of 2015, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday. The timeline is part of Obama's plan to cut US oil imports by a third by 2025 and put a million advanced vehicles on the road by 2015.

The idea is simple, says Kevin Moeller, PhD, and yet it has huge implications. All we are recommending is using photovoltaic cells (clean energy) to power electrochemical reactions (clean chemistry). Moeller is the first to admit this isn't new science. "But we hope to change the way people do this kind of chemistry by making a connection for them between two existing technologies," he says.

Located in the province of Hai Duong, Hong Duong Co., Ltd. is an enterprise specialized in producing and processing agricultural products, foodstuffs and types of salt with the production capacity of 12,000 tons of salt per year. Although the equipment is relatively uniform and modern, each year, the company still consumes a lot of energy: 278,400 kWh of electricity per year and 367.2 tons of coal per year. How to reduce consumption of these resources is the main concern of the company's leaders.

Thai Nguyen is known not only as the revolutionary base, the cradle of the metallurgic industry, but also the center of education - training of Viet Bac, and ranks 3rd in the number of universities, colleges, secondary vocational schools located in the locality. Therefore, the demand for electricity is very high, the current maximum power consumption is 250MW, and the required power output is 4.5 million kWh per day, of which electricity for industrial production accounts for nearly 80%. So in recent years, Thai Nguyen has been actively implementing energy saving in all sectors from industrial production, offices to public lighting...

This was a prerequisite for building plans of sustainable development and more proper distribution of electric energy, thus overcoming the chronic shortage of electricity and helping businesses build a clear orientation for power efficiency so that they could reduce production costs and improve competitiveness.

Hãng sản xuất xe hơi Toyota của Nhật Bản ngày 7/6 tuyên bố sẽ lắp đặt 17.000 tấm pin Mặt Trời cho nhà máy của hãng đặt tại Anh nhằm cắt giảm 2.000 tấn khí thải CO2/năm.Các tấm pin Mặt Trời tại nhà máy Burnaston đặt tại Derbyshire, miền Trung nước Anh trên sẽ bao phủ một diện tích là 90.000m2, tương đương với diện tích của bốn sân bóng đá.

Chính phủ Brazil sẽ cấp khoản tín dụng trị giá 22,1 tỷ USD trong giai đoạn 2011-2014 cho việc phát triển các dự án về nhiên liệu sinh học thông qua Ngân hàng nhà nước về phát triển kinh tế và xã hội (BNDES).Quốc gia Nam Mỹ này đứng đấu thế giới về sản xuất ethanol từ mía đường với sản lượng hàng năm lên đến 11 tỷ lít.

Sáng ngày 4/6, tại Đại học FPT, tòa nhà Detech, số 8, Tôn Thất Thuyết, Hà Nội Công ty TNHH Truyền thông và Sáng tạo Xanh và Câu lạc bộ 350Vietnam đã phối hợp tổ chức Diễn đàn sáng tạo xanh – sử dụng hiệu quả năng lượng và năng lượng tái tạo với sự hỗ trợ của Hội Đồng Anh và Viện Nghiên cứu Công nghệ FPT. Đây là chương trình mở đầu cho chuỗi các sự kiện thuộc Diễn đàn Sáng Tạo Xanh 2011.