An Obama administration appointee at the Energy Department pressed White House analysts to sign off on a $535 million loan to Solyndra even though his wife worked for the failed solar panel... Read more
The emirate of Dubai is poised to unveil a big solar power plant as part of a push to get five percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030, Saeed Mohammed al-Tayer, vice chairm... Read more
A UK-based power company plans to set up a solar panel manufacturing plant and a diesel-run power generator producing plant in Bangladesh to expand its business and help the country meet the... Read more
A boat with rally car-style suspension and a giant mechanical “seahorse” are among the designs receiving funding from a competition to solve problems working on offshore wind far... Read more
GE and MPX, a division of EBX Group, owned by businessman Eike Batista, have announced an agreement that will double the output of MPX’s first solar power plant in Brazil. Currently th... Read more
A steep drop in the cost of solar panels in recent months has spurred a significant increase in the number of planned non-residential projects in the U.S., an energy research company (Solarb... Read more
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order for an M701F gas turbine and generator for a combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power generation plant in Bangladesh. Electricity Gener... Read more
Relying more on natural gas than on coal would not significantly slow down the effects of climate change, even though direct carbon dioxide emissions would be less, a new study has found. Bu... Read more
Integrating variable output renewable generation into the grid means balancing supply and demand. Tildy Bayar looks at developments in large-scale battery energy storage solutions. Balancing... Read more
In 2009, the world’s largest geothermal developer, Ormat, moved into the solar market – using its power plant construction expertise to build solar PV and CSP plants in Israel. And in... Read more
