The vast majority of the European Parliament has voted in favour of plans to release €146m of unused European Union (EU) funds to finance energy saving, energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Today’s vote swing has given the go-ahead to amend legislation on the European Energy Recovery Plan (EERP) to channel unspent capital into a new fund.

Thái Lan sẽ được cung cấp pin mặt trời cho một nhà máy điện mới, đây là kết quả của một thỏa thuận hợp tác đã kí kết giữa các quan chức Thái Lan với tập đoàn Suntech Power Holding. Công ty này sẽ cung cấp 9,43MW điện bằng việc lắp đặt các tấm pin mặt trời. Công ty Dầu khí Bangchak (Bangchak Petroleum) là chủ dự án này và dự án đã được lên kế hoạch thực hiện vào cuối năm sau.

Các công ty năng lượng của Đức tiếp tục có được các khoản lợi nhuận khổng lồ, bất chấp cuộc khủng hoảng tài chính gần đây. Năm ngoái, ba công ty lớn nhất đã có lợi nhuận là 23 tỉ euro. E.ON, RWE và EnBW đã liên tục tăng lợi nhuận của họ trong tám năm qua, theo một bản tin của báo Frankfurter Rundschau, trích dẫn một nghiên cứu của Đại học khoa học ứng dụng Saarland.

Nissan showed a two-seater electric vehicle resembling a go-cart Monday that isn’t ready for sale but spotlights the Japanese automaker’s ambitions to be the leader in zero-emission cars. Nissan is planning to produce 250,000 electric vehicles a year, starting with the Leaf electric car set for delivery in Japan and the U.S. in December, and next year in Europe.

Ngày 10/11, Ủy ban châu Âu (EC), cơ quan hành pháp của Liên minh châu Âu (EU), công bố chiến lược an ninh năng lượng mới cho thập kỷ tới theo hướng cải thiện hiệu quả sử dụng năng lượng và giảm sự ô nhiễm phát sinh từ hoạt động này. Chiến lược năng lượng 2020 của EU kêu gọi áp dụng các biện pháp nhằm tiết kiệm năng lượng, hạn chế sử dụng những thiết bị tiêu tốn năng lượng tại các hộ gia đình và đảm bảo những nguồn cung cấp năng lượng ổn định cho toàn bộ 27 nước thành viên.

The project was launched three years ago by Sanderson, a London-based marketing entrepreneur who is confident that it will attract the £15.5 million needed to be completed. Sanderson came up with the idea of an electric GT ten years ago at a motor show, inspired by the project’s technical director, Arthur Woolstenholme.

On days with little wind, Europe may have to rely on Norwegian reservoirs to keep its wheels running smoothly in the future. On the Continent, the concept of Norway as Europe's green battery has caught on -- but is it feasible in practice? The Centre for Environmental Design of Renewable Energy (CEDREN) -- one of Norway's Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research -- is carrying out the HydroPEAK project to study whether Norway could truly provide Europe's balance power.

According to statistics, every year, the country has to import 6 million tons of petroleum, 40% of which is for transportation industry. The annual costs of importing petroleum and producing electricity have accounted for one fifth of total GDP of the country and has now “consumed” all GDP of the agricultural sector. The objects which consume much energy are the Industry (consumes 47%), transportation (20%) and households (15%) ...

The European Hydrogen Association (EHA) and the European Regions and Municipalities Partnership for hydrogen and fuel cells (HyRaMP) have called for accelerated support from the EU, national and local governments to ensure a sustainable build-up of hydrogen infrastructure in Europe. Both organizations stress the need to integrate hydrogen infrastructure development into the EU’s current energy and transport infrastructure plans.

Making a cellphone battery last ten times longer is a first target for a large research project that IBM, Infineon and a number of European universities unveiled on Wednesday. The new research project, called Steeper, also aims to decrease the energy needs of other electronic devices like TV sets or supercomputers by 10 times when active, and to virtually eliminate power consumption when they are in standby mode.

Với sản phẩm mới, sử dụng năng lượng hiệu quả của mình, Whisper Tech - doanh nghiệp sản xuất thiết bị đun nước tiết kiệm năng lượng, thuộc tập đoàn Meridian (New Zealand) đang tham vọng đánh bại các đối thủ tại thị trường ấm đun nước đầy hấp dẫn tại Anh. Whisper Tech nói rằng IPO (việc phát hành cổ phiếu lần đầu) tại Euro có thể xảy ra khi doanh nghiệp này đang dốc lực mạnh cho hoạt động sản xuất.

A New Zealand firm is hoping to beat rivals to Britain's lucrative boiler replacement market with its energy-efficient product and says an IPO (initial public offering) in Europe could be on the cards as it ramps up production. Whisper Tech, controlled by New Zealand state power group Meridian, expects to be profitable within a year and is examining its funding options over the next 12-18 months as it moves into mass production.

Only to the visually-impaired it may look like fuel cells and electric cars don’t enjoy success nowadays. Daimler AG has just started a pilot program of leasing Mercedes-Benz hydrogen fuel cell cars to 5 to 15 users in the US, to see how their car acts in real life conditions and how people receive them. To me this looks like a postpone of the real thing, just like GM did to EV1.

Weighing under 454 kilos (1,000 lbs), the Honda Air is run by a compressed air motor, with the energy held inside compressed air in pressurized tanks. It’s “programmed” to have an autonomy of around 100 miles and has a pneumatic regulator system.

Siemens has landed an order to supply 80 wind turbines for the Dan Tysk wind farm off Germany's North Sea coast. With a total capacity of 288 MW, the farm will begin supplying clean electricity to 500,000 German households in 2014. Dan Tysk Offshore Wind GmbH is owned by Vattenfall Europe with a 51 percent stake and Stadtwerke Munchen with a 49 percent stake.

The first factory to manufacture the Nissan Leaf, in Oppama, Japan, started producing functional units on October 22. The first shipments will be made to Japan and the US this November and to Europe starting December. The Nissan Leaf uses lithium-ion batteries made by Automotive Energy Supply Corp, the joint venture between NEC and Nissan.

With the second largest tidal range in the world, about 50 feet, the Severn estuary has been eyed for years as a potential energy source, particularly as the appetite for sustainable energy sources has been growing over the last few years. The U.K. has pledged to have 40 percent of its electricity generated from renewable sources by 2020 to meet European Union requirements.

The schools superintendent dubbed her the Princess of Darkness. Co-workers have nicknamed her the Queen of Green. Just don't call Susan Warren a spendthrift. The Freedom High School art and yoga teacher has an improbable second set of job duties these days: Identify situations in which the school district is wasting energy -- and eliminate them.

A long list of sustainability measures saved School District 43 more than $1.2 million in the past year. But the district will soon need to fork over extra cash for carbon offsets, since the provincial government requires the public sector be carbon neutral by the end of 2010.

Eurostar has today announced a planned £700m investment in its rolling stock that will result in the rail operator running some of the greenest trains on the planet from 2014. The company revealed it is to buy 10 new trains and refurbish its existing 28-strong fleet as it looks to further build on its position as a low-carbon alternative to short haul flights.