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...
EU strikes solar deal with China on tariffs
The EU has struck a deal with China that will set a minimum price for Chinese solar panels sold in Europe. Officials say it will be 56 euro cents per watt of solar...
Solar energy: EU helps install solar energy collector in a village school
Pupils of a school in Kolky village, Volyn region, will now be able to take a warm shower after gym classes. A solar collector on the school’s roof will provide hot water, thanks...
Down to earth energy
Right under our feet there is a source of clean and efficient energy. La Fabrica del Sol in Barcelona is living proof. An old Catalan building dating back to the beginning of the...
Painting for change
Scientists in the UK have been developing specially ‘conductive’ paints to be printed onto building materials, where they can then generate their own electricity from the sunlight they absorb. If the project proves...
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...
Total energy independence in the Alps
French engineer and inventor Fabrice André is whizzing up the Alpine road to his refuge on his latest invention: a tricycle that can climb upwards at more than 50 kilometres an hour and...
Vatican to fully transfer to the solar energy
The smallest state in the world, the Vatican, will be the first carbon-neutral country in the globe and Europe’s largest solar power plant. The home of Pope Benedict XVI has decided to spend...
