Latest renewables news hot off the press - 28/03/2012
Wednesday, 28 March 2012 REM • UK: Ocean energy firms wants more state energy funds Google News • Solar power towers overpower PV panels by 20X The Register • China Now World's Leader in Wind Power OilPrice.com • Qanta...
Lessons in renewable energy at America’s greenest hotel
Monday, 26 March 2012 Richard Crume Richard Crume uses one hotel in the US as an example for his renewable energy students to study. The hotel has achieved a 40 percent reduction in energy costs compared with other hotels of the same si...
Cabo Verde
African island goes green with solar micro-grid
Monday, 26 March 2012 REM A new rural solar Photovoltaic (PV) micro-grid has been commissioned on the island of Santo Antão (Cabo Verde) financed under the ACP-EU Energy Facility programme and led by local private water compa...
Germany
Country needs to protect solar leadership, warns analyst
Monday, 26 March 2012 REM As a global leader in research on the solar Photovoltaic (PV) industry, Renewable Analytics feels compelled to address political leaders in Germany regarding several key points to put emphasis on the ...
United States
Renewables create jobs, expand businesses in Nevada says Senator Reid
Friday, 16 March 2012 REM United States Senator Harry Reid released a new report this week that puts a bright spotlight on the importance and benefits of federal and state policies to support the development of renewable energ...
United Kingdom
Taking control of your own energy use
Thursday, 15 March 2012 REM Experts in the field of energy recruitment, Allen & York, take a look at the call for business to take control of their energy use and examine the effect this is having on the growth of the energy...
Why aren't UFOs drawn to renewable energy sites? Or are they?
Thursday, 15 March 2012 Dan McCue Witnesses says they've seen them near nuclear facilities, oil rigs and even hovering above active volcanoes. But UFOs -- whatever they are and whomever may be controlling them -- seem to have turned a...
More than half a million expected for European Solar Days
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 REM With 48 days to go, organisers of the grassroots campaign, European Solar Days forecast over half a million participants will get involved this year, reflecting broad consumer support for clean, cheap...
Siemens takes stock one year after Fukushima
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 Toby Price Coinciding with the first anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Siemens has published a paper examining how the Fukushima nuclear disaster has changed opinion in Germany and what the new ene...
US firm unveils development of break-through hydrogen technology
Monday, 12 March 2012 REM Maverick cleantech firm HyperSolar, Inc. today unveiled details of its plan to develop the world’s first nanotechnology-based, zero-carbon process for the production of renewable hydrogen and natur...