
Solar panels on half a million homes by end of the year
Half a million UK homes will have solar panels installed on their roofs by the end of this year and industry claims it could reach one million by 2015. Half a million UK...

Siemens Energy Receives Mega-Order from MidAmerican Energy for 448 Wind Turbines
Siemens Energy confirmed on Monday that the 1,050-MW wind turbine order it received from MidAmerican Energy Company is the largest onshore wind turbine order in the world. MidAmerican Energy's order consists of 448...

9th International Conference on Biomass For Energy
We cordially invite all the interested representatives of Biomass Community to participate in the 9th International Conference on Biomass for Energy which will take place in Kyiv (Ukraine) on 24-25 September 2013. The...

Innovations At The Field, Or How TeslaCamp Was Held
On 23-25 August 2013 near Kyiv at the Desna river was held an outdoor TeslaCamp od how organizers use to call it – hakaton. The energy camp was working on the green energy,...

Dubai Sustainable City construction starts in July
The construction work at Dubai Sustainable City will begin in July and the first cluster of 100 villas and townhouses will be delivered by the end of 2014. “The Dh1 billion green-development project,...

Here comes the sun – New Yorkers to get free solar power charging stations
A partnership between AT&T and city authorities will provide New Yorkers with 25 solar-powered phone charging stations to top up their phones and tablets, reports the New York Times. Starting Tuesday, 25 solar-powered...

New technology for old houses
Traditional wooden farmhouses like those in Appensell, are iconically Swiss, but every year around 30 of them are demolished because it is so difficult to renovate them to modern standards. But a European...

Sun-powered boat to research Gulf Stream
In La Ciotat in the south of France, a very special boat is undergoing maintenance in a shipyard. Pascal Goulpié welcomed euronews aboard the PlanetSolar, the only vessel that has sailed around the...

Micro-algae is new energy source
In the Ennesys Lab in Nanterre, France, researchers are working on a project to produce energy from waste water by cultivating micro-algae in order to heat water and provide heating. Waste water contains...