Bulgaria will export an estimated 7500GWh of electricity in 2010, more than double its 2009 figure of 3700GWh, announced the National Electric Company (NEK). This represents 21.6% of total power generated in the country. Exports have increased significantly as domestic consumption was reduced by the recession. “We reached an all-time exports record this year,” Parvanov said. “Mainly because we improved the management of the tenders and our product.”

According to a recently released report, Scotland is on track to meet its ambitious renewable energy goal of generating 80 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020. In the report, Energy Trends, it was revealed that 27 percent of the electricity in 2009 was generated using renewable energy sources.

Some 500 of 900 German power firms will increase prices as of Jan. 1, consumer portal Verivox said, detailing recent announcements in the retail energy market for the 40 million households it monitors. The average increase will be 7 percent and a typical household, consuming 4,000 kilowatt hours a year, will have to pay 66 euros ($87) more for annual supply, said the portal, which monitors prices and encourages switching.

Theo như trang web chuyên về tiêu dùng Verivox thì 500 trong tổng số 900 công ty năng lượng ở Đức sẽ tăng giá điện từ ngày 1/1, thông báo chi tiết được đưa ra trên thị trường điện bán lẻ cho khoảng 40 triệu hộ gia đình. Trang web này cũng cho biết mức tăng giá trung bình là 7% và một hộ gia đình bình thường, tiêu dùng khoảng 4000 kWh một năm, sẽ phải trả thêm khoảng 66 euro (tương đương 87USD) mỗi năm.

Dự án có tổng mức đầu tư 149,6 triệu USD đã hoàn thành và đưa vào thu gom khí trước kế hoạch gần 6 tháng, thu lợi 34 triệu USD. Lễ khánh thành và mừng công về đích trước kế hoạch dự án “Thu gom khí đồng hành và gaslift mỏ Rồng - Đồi Mồi” đã diễn ra chiều 30/12, tại TP Vũng Tàu.

China's measures to develop wind energy will help to save energy, reduce emissions and protect the environment and are in line with the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday in response to a US complaint against China's subsidy for the wind-power sector.

Sweden and Norway have agreed the bases for a common green certificate market, energy ministers for both nations said on Wednesday. A green certificate is a tradable commodity proving that a certain electricity has been produced using a renewable source of energy, such as wind, solar or hydropower. Environmental groups hope they can boost the use of renewables.

The extended tax credits will prove a great present for thousands of workers in the renewable energy industry. President Obama signed legislation on Friday extending key tax credits supporting renewable energy projects and biofuel use.

The two countries' interest in cooperation is quite natural. The Czech Republic is preparing a lucrative tender for the completion of the nuclear power plant Temelin, near the Austrian border, in which the US firm Westinghouse has expressed interest. Westinghouse has a Japanese owner but its seat and operations are in the USA. The project is worth several hundred billion crowns. Besides Westinghouse, the other bidders are Czech-Russian consortium of Skoda JS Atomstroyexport and France's Areva.

Tại làng Kiptusuri ở Kenya, nỗi khát khao có điện của cô Sara Ruto bắt đầu từ năm ngoái, ngay sau khi cô mua một chiếc điện thoại di động. Đó là một phương tiện thiết thực để giữ liên lạc với người thân trong thành phố và kiểm tra giá gà ở khu chợ gần nhất. Tuy nhiên, khâu sạc pin không hề đơn giản ở vùng quê cách quá xa lưới điện. Hằng tuần, cô Sara Ruto phải đi bộ khoảng 3,2 km để đến chỗ có người chở thuê. Sau khoảng 3 giờ, cô mới đến thị trấn có điện gần nhất – thị trấn Mogotio - để sạc điện thoại với giá 0,3 USD.

Drying biosolids to approximately 75 percent solids, beyond the 15 to 20 percent solids typical at wastewater treatment plants, was recognized as the best way to create a workable, pathogen-free biosolid that could be used as cover at the Toland Road Landfill in Santa Paula, with potential future use as fertilizer or fuel. A biosolids drying system was developed to meet the long-term disposal needs of Ventura County in an economical, environmentally responsible manner.

A sprawling international collaboration between scientists at government and university laboratories has resulted in a breakthrough discovery that could lead to more efficient ways of generating electricity from waste heat. The phenomenon, called the thermoelectric effect, can be applied to car exhaust, factory emissions, and other operations to capture the large amount of human-manufactured energy that is currently lost to the atmosphere.

A statement from the department on Saturday said that IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano was in the country from Dec. 8 to Dec. 11, where he met senior officials from Philippine government agencies involved in the implementation of technical cooperation projects in various nuclear applications.

Innovative green transport systems such as electric tricycles, hybrid jeepneys and electric bicycles have the potential to lessen pollution caused by conventional transportation and the dependency on fossil fuels, according to Senator Edgardo J. Angara.

Emily Cummins, một cô gái người Anh 23 tuổi đã trở thành người phụ nữ duy nhất và cũng là người châu Âu duy nhất được vinh danh bởi những người từng đoạt giải thưởng Nobel và nhận giải thưởng Oslo Business vì Hòa bình trong một buổi lễ tầm cỡ quốc tế tại Na Uy cho công trình nghiên cứu vì cộng đồng của cô, với phát minh tủ lạnh hoạt động bằng năng lượng Mặt Trời mà không cần nguồn điện. Cô cũng vinh dự nhận được danh hiệu là 1 trong 10 người xuất sắc nhất hành tinh.

On December 15th, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) held a ceremony reviewing the energy efficiency program in the 2006-2010 period and the implementation of Directive No. 19/2005/CT-TTg on energy conservation in production and consumption . After 5 years of nationwide deployment, with the coordination between the MOIT and the People's Committees of provinces and cities under the Central Government, the program has obtained encouraging achievements.

Research by energy management specialist AlertMe, which monitored an office of 50 staff over two weekends, found that leaving just one desktop PC and monitor on standby for the extended 10-day Christmas period emits 4kg of CO2 - 200 times more than 100 fairy lights.

The Community Wind Information Service will provide analysis for groups or individuals looking into the possibility of installing wind turbines at farms, industrial facilities, landfills, schools, water plants or other community sites.

The Tesla Roadster uses a battery called “18650,” originally designed for laptop computers. The car doesn’t use 10, or a hundred, but 6,831 of them, enough to dispatch a 56 kWh power onto the Roadster’s electric motors and wheels. This power is enough to take you from 0 to 60 mph in about 3.5 seconds (depending on the car’s version).

Officials with the Robins Air Force Base Energy Office are conducting feasibility on the use of plasma arc technology, which offers environmentally safe measures for waste disposal. "The process can take nearly any material and convert it to energy," said Judith Middlebrooks, an engineer with the Energy Office. "It uses extremely high temperatures to turn products into mostly hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Plastics are really great, but most any organic compound will work."