The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Xantrex Technology Inc., have announced a voluntary recall of some Xantrex solar inverter models sold in the USA and Canada. Units sold in Australia are not affected.
Danish wind energy giant Vestas has been awarded the US$1.5 million Zayed Future Energy Prize for its contribution to the global renewable energy industry.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently announced 20% of the city’s power was now being sourced from renewable energy.
A Korean expedition team looking to trek across Antarctica using solar-powered snowmobiles has run into trouble as unseasonably humid weather leaves the usually sunny and clear summer skies overcast and dull.
Evergreen Solar, one of America’s biggest thin-film solar panel manufacturers, is closing its doors and moving operations to China.
The Rwandan government has announced plans to install 300 off grid solar power systems at 300 remote schools in the country.
Researchers from the University of Western Australia say Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technologies have excellent potential to generate clean, renewable electricity for communities and mining operations throughout the state’s vast Wheatbelt.
Emcore has been awarded a contract to supply solar panels to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre for its 2014 Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS).
Years of conflict in East Africa has seen infrastructure destroyed or fall into disrepair. A solar powered water pumping initiative implemented by the Red Cross will make a huge difference in supplying people in a region of Sudan with safe drinking water.
A study has found wind turbines located in the fields of farms in the USA’s Midwest may be providing more benefits than just generating clean electricity – the plants could be benefiting as well.
