Interesting energy developments in Germany’s capital: even as cash-strapped cities and government agencies elsewhere in the world continue to sell off public assets to corporate owners, citizens in Berlin want to buy back the city’s power supply from Vattenfall. As [...]
Germany’s already an undisputed powerhouse in renewable energy, but it will need to become even more innovative now that it aims to quit nuclear power by 2022. Up until last year, Germany operated 17 nuclear reactors that provided about one-fourth [...]
The renewable energy industry might be suffering growing pains, but the key word there is “growing,” not “pain.” For all the challenges the clean-power sector has faced in the past year — fast-dropping prices for solar panels, stiff competition from [...]
Four US companies have been recognized by the Department of Energy (DOE) for their work in helping individuals and businesses to get more of their electricity from green, renewable sources. Now in their 11th year, the DOE’s 2011 Green Power [...]
GE has opened a new facility in Mississippi designed to make it easier to distribute parts for wind turbines and solar technologies from a central location. The new logistics center in Olive Branch is located about 23 miles south of [...]
Some residents on the Hawaiian island of Maui will soon have a chance to test-drive the smart grid. The Maui Smart Grid Project is one of several demonstration projects across the US being supported by the Department of Energy (DOE) [...]
A small Danish island in the Baltic Sea is becoming a living laboratory for technologies that could dramatically transform the energy world. Having already developed a substantial supply of renewable energy, Bornholm is now embarking on a test of smart-grid [...]
Over the past year, the UK has seen a significant increase in the amount of energy it gets from renewable sources, with one contributing factor being a return to higher, more normal wind speeds and rainfall. Nearly 10 percent of [...]
Austin Energy expects to get 30 percent of the Texas city’s energy supplies from renewable sources by the end of 2012 — nearly 1000 megawatts (MW) in all. That puts the city well on track to meet its 35 percent [...]
As the demand for clean energy keeps growing, Siemens has decided it makes sense to split its renewables business into two independent units: one focused on wind, the other focused on solar and hydropower. “We want to continue our success [...]
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