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 ...
Germany
Fuel cells rapidly gaining ground thanks to renewables
Wednesday, 21 March 2012 REM Major investments and new partnerships are highlighting an uptick in demand for fuel cells in Germany. According to experts, the market is just right as demand for energy Storage is on the up as Germa...
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...
Cloud computing has a silver lining
Wednesday, 14 March 2012 Toby Price New research from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in the UK concludes that companies could achieve annual energy savings running into the billions and annual carbon reductions by using cloud compu...
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...
Does UK want to treat nuclear same as renewable energy?
Monday, 12 March 2012 Toby Price According to an article published in the Guardian newspaper yesterday, a leaked document shows that the UK government wants nuclear power to be given parity with renewables in Europe, which could boos...
Off-gird power secures energy supply for security systems
Monday, 12 March 2012 REM Colin Sworder of KraftMaus, which specialises in off-grid renewable energy applications, explains how reductions in power demands for security systems due to lower power electronics are opening the d...
Report from Japan
A year later, the cleanup is just beginning
Sunday, 11 March 2012 Richard Crume Wanting to remember the victims - both living and dead - of the Great East Japan Earthquake, our blogger Richard Crume, looks at what the country is doing to get back on its feet a year on from the di...
Scotland
Who needs oil and gas when you can have renewables?
Friday, 09 March 2012 Toby Price A day doesn’t go by without Scotland appearing in the news in relation to its push to ramp up its renewables capacity and generate wealth and jobs while doing so. Earlier today we reported on an agr...