The British project planner Sustainable Renewable Technologies (SRT, Bilston Glen, UK) has been nominated for the Solar Power Portal Award for a solar photovoltaic (PV) system installed on a pyramid-shaped office building.

Thanks to its low latitude and low percentage of cloudy days, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is an ideal location for capturing solar energy.

Wind can be an unpredictable and unstable source of power, and high in the sky where it is more stable, it's difficult to exploit.

Power-One Inc. will showcase its first residential energy storage solution at the Solar Energy UK trade show in Birmingham, England from October 8th-10th, 2013.

Citing the nation's renewable energy solicitations, Frost & Sullivan (Mountain View, California, U.S.) forecasts that renewable energy will grow from 1% of South Africa's energy supply in 2012 to 12% in 2020.

Less than three years after the disaster at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, a hotly-anticipated floating offshore wind turbine began operating 20 kilometres from the damaged site on Monday.

India's Union Government has approved the establishment of a new central center for solar energy research and development and related activities.

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., (Irvine, CA, U.S.) on October 24th, 2013, announced that it has extended its family of 650V silicon carbide (SiC) Schottky Barrier Diodes (SBD).

While the EU may be made up of 28 Member States, the number of islands within the union runs into the thousands, dotted around the seas of the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean.

The UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) expects renewable energy to increase to meet over 37% of the nation's electricity demand by 2022, in its latest annual energy and emissions projections.

Indonesia and the US have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in green technology on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings from October 1 – 8 in Bali, Indonesia.

Research meteorologist Edwin Campos and his colleagues at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory have partnered with IBM to build a forecasting technology based on IBM's Watson supercomputer, made famous by its 2011 victory over human champions on the television quiz show Jeopardy!.

The Solar Decathlon is the world's most challenging sustainable building university-level competition and is sponsored by the U.S.

The University of Southampton is leading an international project to provide sustainable electricity supplies to rural communities in Africa.

In many countries around the world the supply of electricity and clean water is often sporadic and of poor quality.

True or false: solar and wind power are freely available and clean, and thus should always be stored when they generate more energy than the grid can use?

An era of nighttime solar power is dawning in the U.S.

State University of New York’s (SUNY) Cortland campus has recently taken action to use 100% renewable energy.

Off the shores of the United States and the Great Lakes is a power source with four times the energy potential of the entire U.S. electric power system: the wind, writes the U.S.Department of Energy.

Renewable energy provided over 14% of America’s electric power in the first half of 2013, according to the US Government.

In October, meeco Group’s subsidiary meeco América Latina S.A. (Asunción, Paraguay) will offcially introduce CIS (copper indium gallium diselenide) solar photovoltaic (PV) modules made in Germany in the Paraguayan market.

Findings show carbon pollution from power plants can be cut cost-effectively by using wind, solar and natural gas

On a 1.8-hectare grassy plot of land in a mountainous area, a 15-minute drive from JR Odawara Station in Kanagawa Prefecture, development work is under way on a solar power plant with a design output of 1 megawatt.

What did you do when the sun went down? If you’re reading this, chances are you switched on a light.

Australian company Zeo has developed and patented a glue-free process that creates a strong, versatile new building material out of just cellulose and water.

Arizona Public Service Co. (Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.) reports that the Solana Generating Station in Arizona has begun production of electricity on a test basis.