Refinitiv Eikon via Reuters has…
Sanctions against the Taliban government…
Sweden and Finland’s NATO bid…
The Solar Industry Award 2012 for Excellence in Innovation was recently presented to the PV solar manufacturer Silevo for its market leading solar cell technology, called Triex. The…
Britain is the world leader in the offshore wind farm market, accounting for 60% of all offshore wind farms in Europe.Yet the shocking reality is that, according to…
ConocoPhillips has announced that it will sell its stake in Kazakhstan’s giant Kashagan oil field.Kashagan was declared commercially viable 10 years ago and is the largest oil discovery…
Finding an efficient method for storing energy is vital for the future success of the renewable energy industry, as energy storage enables the variable nature of renewable sources to be…
Is Moscow secretly funding campaigns against Europe’s shale gas plans? Quite possibly. Russia used to sell natural gas to Europe and the rest of the world for an average of…
Warren Buffett, the US investment tycoon, has once again shown his commitment to the US renewable energy market by announcing his plans to buy two huge Californian wind farms.
Tesla has unveiled the first Supercharger station of its ambitious plan to install 100 throughout the US by 2015. The EV charging station is one of six that will be…
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has stated that without a serious change to our energy consumption habits, the global average temperature will increase between 2 and 11.5 degrees…
Another update: Gasoline prices declined recently, and are down about 8 cents nationally over the last 2 weeks. Brent crude spot prices increased to $117.48 per barrel two weeks ago,…
Time is running out; Xstrata has until Monday to accept Glencore’s $90 billion takeover bid. However the deal has hit a snag which is proving difficult to overcome, and could…
Ed Davey, the UK climate and energy secretary, recently told the government that he has approved plans to build twenty new natural gas fired power stations. He also insisted that…
Two nuclear engineering Ph.D. students at MIT have decided to take a leap of faith and start-up their own business. In 2011 Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie registered the company…
It's now official. The top tax rate in France is now 75% for those who make over a million euros. Moreover, there is a new band of 45% for those…
Currently, around 50% of the global population live in cities, and that figure is expected to increase to 60% by 2030.Dr Roland Busch, the chief executive at Siemens’…
I have always thought of the Tesla Model S sedan as the fastest, and most beautiful, fully electric production car on the roads, yet now it is time for it…
Mecca, the birthplace of Muhammad, and Islam’s holiest city, has plans to become the first city in Saudi Arabia to run completely on solar power.The Saudi Arabian government…
The government has just released its latest quarterly energy statistics and the results are mixed. Renewable energy has enjoyed a bountiful year, whereas coal power has also seen…
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington is working to develop a system that can produce jet fuel from seawater.Last year the US Naval Military Sea Lift Command,…
On June the 30th 2009 oil mysteriously jumped by more than $1.50 a barrel during the night, to reach its highest price in eight months, the kind of swing that…
At the recent UN general assembly, the UN secretary general Ban-Ki Moon pushed his idea for the Sustainable Energy for All initiative. One of the massively ambitious goals of…