Author: Energy Matters

Masdar, the United Arab Emirates’ state-owned renewable energy company, has officially opened Africa’s largest utility-scale solar power plant in Mauritania.

ABB and Power-One have agreed to a transaction in which ABB will acquire Power-One for approximately $1 billion equity value.

PC-Aero has partnered with solar panel manufacturer SolarWorld to produce another small airplane powered by the sun.

U.S. scientists have developed a method of incorporating solar energy into natural gas based electricity generation to produce a richer, more efficient fuel.

For the first time, March saw solar power as being the only new large scale electricity generation added in the USA.

Worldwide installations of wind power grew by 10 percent in 2012 and with the exception of 2013, this trend will continue over the next five years.

The Japanese government plans to install a massive battery at an electrical substation on the island of Hokkaido.

New renewable energy subsidies in Germany may do for battery storage globally what the nation did for solar power.

India’s Prime Minister has announced an intention to double the nation’s renewable energy capacity from 25000MW to 55000 MW by 2017.

It’s little wonder Australia’s electricity sector is becoming increasingly cagey about the home solar revolution.