Vestas has received an order for 365 V52-850 kW turbines for the 310 MW Lake Turkana Wind Power project in Kenya. The order is the largest in Vestas’ history in terms of number of wind turbines in a single project.

Solar power almost doubled in the last year, with 650,000 installations ranging from solar farms to panels on homes, figures showed.

With demand response, grid operators use technologies to reduce the peak demand, thereby avoiding the need to build or maintain these expensive power plants.

The group that received the health and environmental information reduced consumption by 8 percent compared to the control.

A Vietnamese delegation was in Denmark to learn about how the legal and regulatory framework is designed to promote energy efficiency in Danish industries.

South Africa has a goal of having 18 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030, so projects like this are definitely steps in the right direction. If there's one thing that South Africa has lots of, it's sunlight! 45% of the total project value was spent on "local content" to help increase the positive economic impact on the area.

His remarks came at the time when his government is planning to target up to 100,000 MW of solar generation by 2022, far more than an existing 20,000 MW target by 2020.

A new experimental “smart town” based especially around the technologies of solar energy and battery storage is being developed in Japan by Panasonic Corporation (along with other public and private partners), based on recent reports.

British Gas has been fined £11.1m by the regulator Ofgem over its failure to deliver energy efficiency measures on time.

The Victorian Labor Party has sought to underline its renewable energy credentials by vowing to help the town of Newstead, near Bendigo, to become 100 per cent renewable energy by 2017, and become the state’s first “solar town”.

With the number of Internet connected devices rapidly increasing, researchers from Melbourne are starting a new research program to reduce energy consumption of such devices.

The new energy efficiency standard’s positive environmental impact includes 3.63 quadrillion BTU’s of energy saved during the above mentioned period, that translates in avoiding 265 million metric tons of CO2 emissions equivalent to the annual emissions of about 52 million automobiles.

Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited (VINACOMIN) is using technological and technical solutions, intensifying management in order to minimize coal loss.

At a meeting with the national steering committee for atomic energy workforce training, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam asked ministries and sectors to clarify the atomic energy industry’s workforce demand and train a labor force not only for nuclear power plants but also research and training facilities and other organizations of ministries and sectors.

Harrow Council are taking part in the London wide scheme-Big Energy Switch which promises to help reduce your bills up to £200. Anyone who pays a household energy bill can take part, this includes tenants and customers on pre payment meters.

Germany is the global leader in energy efficiency while ageing power plants and inefficient ways of electricity generation and industrial practices put India at number 11 in the latest energy efficiency ranking of the world's 16 largest economies.

1 July 2014 The Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency (DEDE) held an "Energy Conservation in Housing Award" ceremony to urge real estate entrepreneurs to work harder at saving energy.

Over the past few years, the idea of an Energy Union was informally mentioned already several times. But now, in this new strategic agenda, the Energy Union has been introduced for the first time in an official European document, and has been accepted by an official European institution.

A working group from the Gazprom Neft Group (Russia) recently worked with the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) on investment cooperation in upgrading the Dung Quat Oil Refinery. Vietnam Economic News’ Kim Hoa spoke with Dinh Van Ngoc, General Director of the Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited (BSR) about the project.

The tolling of the evening bell signals the end of the day’s classes at Donyo Wasin primary school. For a few adept pupils like Sotik Leleno, however, it ushers in the time for their private studies under the glow of solar powered lighting.

From massive wind farms generating power to small turbines powering a single home, wind turbines around the globe generate clean electricity for a variety of power needs.

Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corp. said Thursday it signed an agreement to build three solar power plants near the country's western coast.

Inner Harbor Water Wheel can pick up 50,000 pounds of trash and debris every day, using solar power and water current to run.

In an attempt to further reduce the cost of electricity to consumers, St. Kitts and Nevis and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela are collaborating in a plan that will see the distribution of over 5,000 energy-saving bulbs in the twin-island Federation.

Green technology meets high-powered computing at the new Stanford Research Computing Center, which supports the growing computational needs of researchers on campus while saving energy.

Solar power, however, is a free, renewable and abundant resource. Today solar energy is an inexpensive and innovative option for treating waste that is becoming more widespread and accepted.