A study by psychologists, engineers and built environment experts at The University of Nottingham, has found no link between the 'measured' level of noise from small and micro wind turbines and reports of ill health.

Biomimicry run amok can be a beautiful thing, and that’s the driving force behind a new portable solar power canopy called Lotus Mobile.

Incorporating wind power into existing power grids is challenging because fluctuating wind speed and direction means turbines generate power inconsistently.

A new study produced by the World Future Council and the Heinrich Böll Foundation (both located in Germany) suggests that using feed-in tariffs could be the best way to develop and promote renewable energy in countries across Africa.

BioSolar Inc. maker of solar panel components has announced it has made its first sale of a new product it calls the BioBacksheet—an all natural material that can be used as a backsheet (cover) for solar panels.

According to Lux Research, the lithium-ion battery market has reached over $10 billion.

Africa can go a long way towards lifting itself out of poverty and ending its chronic shortage of energy by using its own resources, a report says.

Germany and the United States have been powerhouse names in the solar industry for the last couple of years, but a new player is slowly emerging thanks to a healthy feed-in tariff (FIT): Japan.

Fraunhofer scientists have recently made an important breakthrough with their development of a redox flow battery that reaches stack power up to 25 kW, with a cell size of 0.5 square meters.

A new form of concrete, stronger and with a lower carbon footprint, has been created by researchers utilizing some of the waste products of biofuel production.

A new model to explore how new ideas affect fuel consumption in large diesel engines has been developed by a world-leading research group in tribology, at Luleå University of Technology.

It’s been a long road, but the ZeaChem cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant in Oregon is finally turning out fuel.

Providing up to 15 square feet of light, the Luci can be attached to a wall or ceiling and is said to be durable in tough weather situations.

Department of Interior approves three of the largest renewable energy projects in US history

The German Federal Ministry of the Environment has announced that new incentives for energy storage systems for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations will begin in February 2013.

Two long years after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, signs of life are beginning to return.

Scientists at Stanford University established that installing new solar and wind farms in order to meet the increasing energy demands in the U.S.

One wonders what sometimes drives the success of a novel item on Kickstarter while other ones with perhaps more noble goals end without their funding needs being met. Such may well be the case of Suntrunks, designed to be self-contained, portable solar electric power systems for remote or emergency power needs.

PUNE: A solar research and technology park may come up at Chakan.

What does a house look like that consumes no net energy, no net water, and sends no waste to the city sewers?

My how things can change. Do a Google search on the terms Suntech and Goodyear and one of the top returns is a bubbly press release from Jan. 27, 2010, in which Arizona Gov.

A skincare company has launched a social campaign named 'PowerLight a Village' with the hope of providing solar power to villages that do not have electricity.

Italian architectural firm Traverso-Vighy and the Department of Physics at the University of Padua have teamed up to create an innovative zero-energy home dubbed “Tvzeb.

Ferrari and McLaren both on Tuesday unveiled sleek hybrid supercars sculpted from carbon fiber at the Geneva Motor Show.

The Soccket, a soccer ball that generates electricity when it is kicked around, is approaching the production stage.

The development of a renewable system for cooling Australia's largest supercomputer is a step closer, following the start of an innovative geothermal energy project in Perth.