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 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.

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 xe hơi lâu đời của nước Pháp là Renault quyết định tiếp bước Ferrari và Audi về việc lắp đặt tế bào quang năng trên trần nhà máy của họ, với diện tích lớn hơn nhiều: 450.000m2. Dự án - do Renault hợp tác với Gestamp Solar - sẽ giúp tạo ra 60 MW, cắt giảm lượng CO2 phát thải là 30.000 tấn/năm.

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.

Một mục tiêu khác của dự án là sẽ được tăng cường khung pháp lý và thể chế, phát triển các cơ chế thực thi và giám sát, tổ chức các khóa đào tạo cho các cán bộ chuyên môn trong lĩnh vực thiết bị và thiết bị điện dân dụng, đồng thời phát động chiến dịch tiếp cận cộng đồng để phổ biến sử dụng năng lượng hiệu quả ở Nigeria, ông Lekoetje cho biết thêm, đồng thời chỉ rõ các mục tiêu được thiết kế nhằm giúp nâng cao năng lực của tất cả các bên liên quan ở cấp quốc gia.

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.

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.

Germany is coping without about three quarters of its nuclear power capacity by burning more climate-warming coal, reaping the rewards of renewables investments, and importing more French atomic energy. The shutdown over the weekend of another nuclear plant means almost 16 gigawatts of German nuclear power capacity was offline Monday, with nearly half of the capacity ordered to shut by the government in reaction to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March.

Quỹ Cải tiến ôtô Xanh trực thuộc Chính phủ liên bang Australia sẽ đầu tư gần 40 triệu AUD cho Holden - hãng sản xuất xe hơi liên doanh với tập đoàn General Motors (Mỹ) - để giảm thiểu hơn 7% lượng nhiên liệu tiêu thụ của dòng xe Commodore.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant suggested that there were large gaps in international systems to deal with safety breaches. Ban also announced a high-level international meeting on the issue in New York on September 22 during the UN General Assembly session.

Sau thảm họa tại nhà máy Fukushima (Nhật Bản), thủ tướng Đức, bà Angela Merkel tin rằng năng lượng hạt nhân sẽ không bao giờ lại có thể trở thành sự lựa chọn bền vững cho đất nước của bà. Hiện nay, bà Merkel đang dấn thân vào một kế hoạch tham vọng nhất thế giới, đó là cung cấp năng lượng cho một nền kinh tế công nghiệp hoàn toàn dựa vào các nguồn năng lượng tái tạo.

According to Mr Vu Huy Quang - PV Power CEO, PV Power plants are operating stably, securely and efficiently, and have high power output. Four units of PV Power have generated commercial electricity: Ca Mau 1 and 2, Nhon Trach 1, Nhon Trach 2 with the stable annual power output of about 12.5 billion kWh, accounting for 15% of total electricity production nationwide. Particularly in 2010, PV Power's total commercial electricity output reached 12.685 billion kWh.

Two Citroen C1 models fitted with the inductive system as well as a standard plug-in charger will form part of the Coventry and Birmingham Low Emission Demonstrators (CABLED) consortium testing programme, which comes under the umbrella of the Technology Strategy Board's £25m Ultra-Low Carbon Vehicle Demonstrator competition.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is anything but a left-wing greenie. The party she leads, the Christian Democratic Union, is the political equivalent of the Republicans in the U.S. Her coalition government is decidedly pro-business. Often described as Europe's most powerful politician, Merkel's top priority is job creation and economic growth.

The U.S. Postal Service – Office of Inspector General is to merge four of its data centres this month to save operating costs while increasing capacity and energy efficiency. The U.S. Postal Service – Office of Inspector General (USPS OIG) will house its consolidated data centres in one new state-of-the-art facility.

In a sunny corner of Italy that produces roses and olive oil, an American startup will get to demonstrate its technology to harvest both electricity and heat. Solergy, which is in the process of raising a B round of funding, plans to install a hybrid solar electric and thermal system on top of a greenhouse for the farm Azienda Agricola Ciccolella in the Puglia region, and intends to team up with Ciccolella to market Solergy’s systems to growers in the area, said Yoav Banin, Solergy’s CEO.