This month, workers finished placing receiver panels on top of a 540-foot tower that forms the centerpiece of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant in Tonopah, Nevada.

Australia not only is one of the largest producers of coal with significant export mainly to China, but is also a big user of fossil fuels, with more than 75% of its 2008/2009 electricity derived from it.

Wind energy may be one of the more sustainable sources of power available, but the spinning blades of conventional wind turbines require regular maintenance and have attracted criticism from bird lovers.

Apart from heating and cooling the house, water heating is one of the biggest energy drains in the average home.

Old Solar Decathlon houses don’t die; they gather together to form a neighborhood – one prime for some groundbreaking experimentation in taking advantage of clean energy source.

Not having a section devoted to cures for insomnia, Gizmag tends to pass over press releases about investment agreements.

The EU Commission has published a Green Paper with the title “A 2030 framework for energy and climate policy.”

Ecotricity, the world’s first ever green energy company, will form a partnership with the British Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to develop renewable energy installations in more environmentally friendly sites, and which could even double as wildlife reserve.

BEIJING: China, Japan and South Korea are making more consistent investments in clean energy and starting to outshine Europe as a global center of low carbon leadership, according to a new report released today by The Climate Institute and General Electric (GE).

Most previous methods of producing methanol from carbon dioxide have involved lots of electricity, high pressures and high temperatures, and used toxic chemicals or rare earth elements like cadmium or tellurium.

A new version of a probably renewable energy law has been drafted in the Polish Government.

230 megawatts (MW) of new solar energy capacity were installed by Austria in 2012. This more than doubled its total capacity, bringing it up to 415 MW.

The UK was likely the 5th-largest solar market in 2013, according to the latest quarterly report from NPD Solarbuzz. In fact, in the first quarter, the UK snatched up about 10% of the global market.

Senior agriculture and environment officials from the six Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries met in Xiengkhouang, Laos on April 2 to discuss environmentally sustainable agriculture and natural resource management in the region, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

A research vessel carrying German and Taiwanese scientists set sail for waters off the island's southwestern coast on Sunday in search of methane hydrate, a potentially vast new energy source.

Germany is often cited as the king in solar, but its reign may soon be over.

After Record 2012, World Wind Power Set to Top 300,000 Megawatts in 2013

VADODARA: Earth hour, a commitment to save the world from global warming and environmental degradation, was celebrated by NCC Group Baroda on March 23

MEXICO CITY: Global investment in clean energy climbed to a record $250 billion last year despite adverse worldwide economic conditions, the president of the International Solar Energy Society said in an interview in Mexico.

How sustainable it is, nobody knows, but Japan’s feed-in tariff is doing what it was meant to do: inspiring solar power installations.

With the development of nanotechnology, researchers using nanowires in solar cells are finding that solar cell efficiency limits may be higher than they previously thought possible.

Green walls have been acknowledged as one of the most effective ways to cut down city air pollution, improve building’s energy efficiency, reduce noise and at the same time give a warm green feel to the usually colorless city architecture.

A new report reveals how the US economy could save over US$1 trillion through policies designed to remove barriers to energy efficiency improvements.

Addenbrooke's and Rosie Hospitals expected to save £20m in energy costs over 25 years and cut 25,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum

By using social media the Washington D.C. start-up is bringing more transparency to the process of solar installation for homeowners

Greenpeace applauds Apple's efforts to source renewable energy