Preliminary investment figures from global research firm Cleantech Group show clean energy stocks continue to boom in China, Europe, North America and India, totalling $2.57 billion across just 159 companies.
The ACT solar feed-in tariff scheme payment rates will remain unchanged said the Territory’s Minister for Energy, Simon Corbell, in Canberra last Friday.
The latest study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) into the use of smart grids has found that current global trends in the supply and use of energy are becoming increasingly untenable and the world needs to rethink the way it can achieve a more sustainable energy future.
A recent update paper from the Australian Government’s climate change advisor, Professor Ross Garnaut, has confirmed that renewable energy is not the major culprit in electricity price rises and acknowledges its increasingly important role in distributed generation.
Nuclear power reactors aren’t the only source of radioactive waste. The ash left behind from burning coal is radioactive also.
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the Department of Energy (DOE) will open the books on thousands of patents filed away inside 17 state-run laboratories in an effort to find “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator.”
In 2009, IKEA decided to install solar power systems on approximately 150 of its stores and distribution centers around the world. Its latest sustainability report shows good headway in meeting this goal.
A U.S. scientist who has dedicated his working life to improving the efficiency of solar cells will be honoured by the American Chemical Society for “chemistry in the public interest” at Harvard University next month.
According to a report from Pew Charitable Trusts, the global clean energy sector has seen 630 percent growth in finance and investments since 2004 and last year, Australia ranked number 12 in G20 countries for clean energy investment.
Long Beach City College in California has opened a solar energy harvesting car park, utilising Sanyo HIT solar panels.
