A new world efficiency record has been set for thin film silicon solar cells by EPFL’s Institute of Micro-engineering, reaching an impressive 10.7%.

Solar Choice provides a solar PV price index for Australian solar that is updated monthly.

A glut of photovoltaic solar panels has swamped the market due to increased production but less demand, causing some companies to go bankrupt and a general malaise for the whole industry.

Researchers have discovered that an exotic form of silicon may improve solar cell efficiency.

Amid this thriving Chinese megalopolis, the Hong Kong government and the city’s Construction Industry Council have recently completed a project to demonstrate how low a modern building can reduce its carbon footprint.

But $7bn raised in final quarter of last year fuelling hopes for a better performance in 2013.

Industry completes record installations and is poised for further rapid expansion after growing by a third last year

Retailer becomes the first supermarket to deploy GE’s new LED lighting system, promising energy savings of 59 per cent.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance reports smart grid investment soared seven per cent last year and is set to continue climbing

Ed Davey and Pat Rabbitte to sign formal memorandum of understanding paving the way for transmission lines linking Irish wind farms to the UK’s grid

Project to generate hydrogen by replicating photosynthesis holds out promise of highly efficient green fuel UK scientists are hoping to harness the process plants use to turn sunlight into energy to produce a new highly efficient and renewable source of zero-carbon fuel.

Officials in Japan have announced plans for building the largest wind farm in the world, ten miles off the coast of Fukushima

Belgium is to build an artificial island made of sand three km off the Belgian coast.

In the latest issue of Science, researchers from Lund University in Sweden have shown how nanowires could pave the way for more efficient and cheaper solar cells.

In a breakthrough that could lead to more efficient and cheaper solar cells, scientists at Sweden's Lund University claim to have identified the ideal diameter for nanowires to convert sunlight into electricity.

Scientists based at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have set a new efficiency record for thin-film copper indium gallium (di)selenid (or CIGS) based solar cells on flexible polymer foils, reaching an efficiency of 20.4 percent

A researcher at the Universidad politécnica de Madrid (UPM, Spain) has patented a nuclear fusion reactor by inertial confinement that, apart from be used to generate electric power in plants, can be applied to propel ships.

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) on Sunday launched the world's first atlas on clean energy which will offer open-access information on countries' renewable energy potential.

Programme aims to leverage up to €100m of private funds for innovative clean energy technologies.

At about 100 times the strength of steel at one sixth the weight and with impressive electrical conductive properties, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have promised much since their discovery in 1991.

Until recently LED light bulb manufacturers have struggled to find a solution in the 75 to 100-watt range which successfully replaces the soon-to-be redundant, energy crunching 100 W incandescent bulb in terms of size and brightness.

Prices for solar modules -- the part of solar panels that produce electricity -- will continue to fall, in line with the long-term trend since 1980, according to a survey of experts by Near Zero, a nonprofit energy research organization.

Renewable energy solutions like wind and solar operate on nature's timetable. When the sun blazes or when the breeze blows, power is plentiful -- but not necessarily at the moments when consumers need it, like on a hot, calm summer night.

The sun ejects a continuous flow of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields in the form of the solar wind -- and this wind is hotter than it should be. A new study of data obtained by European Space Agency's Cluster spacecraft may help explain the mystery.