Asia accounted 60% of the global progress on energy access and renewables during 210-212.

The newly-formed Association for Decentralised Energy aims to create “a strong singular voice for the UK’s decentralised energy sector.

Swedish furniture giant IKEA, with its 350+ stores and 150,000 employees around the world, has been taking steps to be a better citizen of the Earth, including selling solar panels in some stores and making a big wind power investment near Chicago.

Jersey City officials are aiming to make city buildings more energy-efficient by implementing energy audits every three years, the city announced yesterday.

Asia accounted 60% of the global progress on energy access and renewables during 210-212.

The installation of a solar system over water canals has been completed in India.

A London-based bank has launched a manual to boost energy efficiency and renewable energy in Belarus.

Powered by solar energy, Dokk1 is a modern structure designed by schmidt hammer lassen and built as part of the Urban Mediaspace project in Aarhus, Denmark.

Spanish manufacturer Gamesa’s new 2.5MW turbine prototype has started generating power.

The US is investing $55 million (£34.65m) in combined heat and power (CHP) and biomass projects.

£5 million of funding will be invested in energy efficient LED lighting throughout the UK.

A new biomass terminal is to be built at the Port of Liverpool.

Uruguay is getting a new wind farm with a capacity of 70MW.

The DDFlyTrain research project, conducted by Ricardo, Artemis Intelligent Power (a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy) and Bombardier Transportation, (earlier post) has projects a fuel savings of around 10% based on the use of high speed flywheel brake recovery technology retrofitted to Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) rolling stock. This order of saving means that the technology has a potential return on investment (ROI) of inside five years.

In Germany's capital, where recycling is an art form and organic markets are sprouting up everywhere, saving energy is becoming serious business. It's something city authorities want to encourage.

Good design can make people healthier and nowhere is that more true than in hospital design.

Located in Amsterdam, The Edge is considered to be the most sustainable building in the world - it’s been awarded the highest score ever recorded under BREEAM’s new construction certification scheme.

The US Energy Department has announced a new centre to boost private sector investment in projects aimed at tackling climate change.

The first utility-scale solar power plant in East Africa is now open in Rwanda. Built in the shape of the African continent, the solar farm is expected to generate enough power to supply 15,000 homes and boost Rwanda’s electricity generation capacity by 6%.

The second largest offshore wind farm in the world has officially been opened in Wales.

The Netherlands is to produce its first commercial tidal energy by placing five turbines between the pillars of the Oosterschelde storm barrier in Zeeland. The tidal turbines will produce enough energy each year to power 1,000 homes, broadcaster Nos says.

Three energy efficiency and renewable energy projects from Spain, the UK and Austria have won the prestigious EU Sustainable Energy Europe Awards for their innovative, consumer-empowering ideas.

A £2.5 million solar farm has officially been opened in Legacy, North Wales. It is said to be the first solar farm in the country owned and operated by a local authority.

ABB has won a solar order worth $20 million (£12.6m) in Dubai. It will extend the substation at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park, which will integrate more solar energy into the grid.

A group of renewable energy experts in the EU have won €3.45 million (£2.4m).

A 288MW wind farm in the Baltic Sea has generated its first power which has been fed to the grid.