According to the DOE’s statement, the $25 million it is providing will need to be matched by the winning universities, national labs, private companies or others who apply and are accepted for the program. Initially, the grant recipients are meant to focus on three specific areas, including building energy efficiency, second-generation biofuels and solar energy.

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 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.

The people of Japan may be some of the most energy conscious in the world, and now Panasonic, with the help of eight partner companies, is looking to make them even greener. The project, which would as much re-building as it would be building, aims to turn on of Panasonic's former factory sites into a green smart town.

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.

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.

The Rome-based Global Bioenergy Partnership today released a voluntary policy for producing and using biomass and biofuels in ways that don’t add to climate change or affect food prices. The partnership, established in 2005 by the Group of Eight nations and five emerging economies, also includes 13 international organizations and institutions.

As part of activities of the International Exhibition Fair on "Environment and Energy Technology – ENTECH Hanoi 2011, the communication conference on solutions for energy saving in households attracted over 3000 propagators, officials of Women’s Union branches from all communes and districts in Ha Noi.

The 26th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (26th EU PVSEC) will take place in Hamburg, Germany, at the CCH Congress Centre and International Fair Hamburg. The Conference extends over 5 days from 5-9 September 2011, the Exhibition runs over 4 days from 5-8 September 2011.

Theo báo cáo, có một số lượng lớn các đơn vị đã đăng kí tham gia triển lãm EU PVSEC lần thứ 26, ban tổ chức đã phải mở rộng diện tích khu triển lãm, cho tới nay, nó đã chiếm tới hơn 9 hội trường. Các tổ chức hoạt động trong ngành công nghiệp quang điện toàn cầu đã tăng so với năm 2009 và 2010.

Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have further boosted the energy conversion efficiency of flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium (di)selenide (also known as CIGS) to a new world record of 18.7 percent -- a significant improvement over the previous record of 17.6 percent achieved by the same team in June 2010.

Báo cáo của OECD cho biết đã có một số dấu hiệu cho thấy nền kinh tế thế giới đang dần phát triển theo xu hướng "xanh hóa", ví dụ như ngày càng có nhiều các bằng sáng chế trong lĩnh vực công nghệ năng lượng sạch. Trong tổng số các bằng sáng chế đó, 24% thuộc về ngành năng lượng tái tạo, 20% là bằng sáng chế cho các loại xe điện và xe hyblai (loại xe có động cơ chạy bằng xăng và điện) và 11% là các sáng chế trong việc tiết kiệm năng lượng trong các tòa nhà và các thiết bị chiếu sáng.

Two months on from the natural disasters that ravaged Japan’s infrastructure and economy, its government has said it is determined to plough forward with efforts in the field of sustainable development through trilateral cooperation. The country has committed to promote the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency to reach sustainable growth in the country as it rebuilds itself, officials said in a statement on Sunday.

Efficiency is a problem with today's solar panels; they only collect about 20 percent of available light. Now, a University of Missouri engineer has developed a flexible solar sheet that captures more than 90 percent of available light, and he plans to make prototypes available to consumers within the next five years.

Ngày 30 tháng 05 năm 2011, tại TP Hồ Chí Minh Ban chỉ đạo Chương trình mục tiêu quốc gia về sử dụng năng lượng tiết kiệm và hiệu quả đã chính thức phát động 3 cuộc thi về tiết kiệm năng lượng năm 2011 bao gồm “Tòa nhà hiệu quả năng lượng”, “Quản lý năng lượng trong công nghiệp & tòa nhà” và Giải thưởng “Truyền thông về tiết kiệm năng lượng”. Các cuộc thi được tổ chức bởi Trung tâm Tiết kiệm Năng lượng TP.HCM (ECC-HCMC) và Trung tâm Tiết kiệm Năng lượng Hà Nội (ECC-HN) dưới sự chỉ đạo của Văn phòng Tiết kiệm Năng lượng quốc gia, Bộ Công thương.

More evidence that clear, strong policies are key to renewable energy development came recently via the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). In a statement issued by the association, some statistics about wind energy growth in the country and the states that lead in wind energy development indicate that areas with strong policy are driving development at an impressive pace.