A solar-powered prototype of a wheelchair with retractable solar panels was the winner of the Change My World in One Minute organized by the 2012 World Cerebral Palsy Day.

Britain's electrified railways could be up to 70% powered by wind turbines placed alongside the tracks, if a trial getting underway is successful.

On March 21st, 2013 Australia's ruling Labor Government expressed its commitment to the nation's goal of 20% renewable energy by 2020 as a minimum target, in its statement on a review of the program.

The Chilean Solar Energy Research Center (SERC-Chile) has begun research on solar energy development in the region of Antofagasta.

Juwi group (Wörrstadt, Germany) has recently commissioned a free-field solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in Southern France, also a rooftop PV plant was connected to the grid in Japan.

Aaron Sebens and his class of fourth-graders from the Central Park School for Children in Durham, North Carolina hit Kickstarter back in March to try and raise enough money for their classroom to go off-grid.

Poised halfway between the complexity of Makani and the simplicity of SkySails, the TwingTec TwingKite (or simply Twing, short for tethered wing) uses an advanced lightweight construction to generate energy from the wind.

Researchers at the UPM, within the framework of PROCODAC-GESMEY project, have participated in the construction and testing of the prototype of a device to harness energy from ocean currents able to work in deep water.

Providing auxiliary hydrogen power to docked or anchored ships may soon be added to the list of ways in which hydrogen fuel cells can provide efficient, emissions-free energy.

Solar Impulse – the solar-powered airplane of Swiss pioneers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg – has successfully landed at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The global solar PV industry is on the cusp of one of its greatest changes.

The solar-powered airplane of Swiss pioneers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will fly to New York for the fifth and last leg of its Across America mission flights on Saturday, July 6th, 2013.

Scientists working at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) have improved an innovative solar-energy device to be about 100 times more efficient than its previous design in converting the sun's light and heat into electricity.

Taiwan shows rich potential for development of renewable energy, Greenpeace International’s renewable energy director Sven Teske said in a speech at a public event in Taipei on Tuesday night.

Scientists from the Nano-Science Center at the Niels Bohr Institut, Denmark and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, have shown that a single nanowire can concentrate the sunlight up to 15 times of the normal sun light intensity.

ET Solar Group has announced that it has completed the delivery to Apple Valley Unified School District in Southern California for its 2.3 MW solar projects installed by DS Energy Solutions.

The sun provides the most abundant source of energy on the planet. However, only a tiny fraction of the solar radiation on Earth is converted into useful energy.

Scientists at the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg, ZSW (Germany) have developed top-class lithium-ion batteries.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL, Golden, Colorado, US) will open a new facility dedicated to utility-scale integration of technology including solar photovoltaics (PV), wind turbines and electric vehicles on August 21st, 2013.

The International Economic Platform for Renewable Energies (IWR, Münster, Germany) reports that on June 16th, 2013 wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) generation peaked at over 60% of German electricity output, a new record.

Nearly 50 mayors from cities across the country sign declaration advocating moves to cut environmental impacts and mitigate climate risk

Planetsolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat, arrived safely in New York on June 17, 2013.

India installed 240 MW of grid-tied solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity during March 2013, according to the nation's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).

With the NBA season drawing to a close, it’s that awful time of year when sports fans look for something, anything to cheer for.

Japan could be on course to become the world’s largest market for solar energy, just two years after theFukushima power station melt down took virtually all of its nuclear fleet offline.

Project Loon, the latest experimental technology from Google, seeks to fill in these internet gaps with a network of solar-powered, high-altitude balloons.