Renewable Energy News

Contemporary Energy's Solar Kettle uses the sun's rays to boil water on the go. The lightweight thermos-like device is perfect for camping or picnics, allowing users to make hot beverages or sterilize water without electricity.

THE PUBLIC are being asked to comment on a project to build a renewable energy park in Puriton - which could create thousands of jobs.

High cost of going green: Britain's green energy 'folly' will cost every family an extra 600 a year by 2020, a report warned last night Britain's green energy 'folly' will cost every family an extra 600 a year by 2020, a report warned last night.

Antony is an automotive obsessive: Whether it drives, sits there looking pretty or intrigues from afar, he'll talk and write about it.

Windsor on Wednesday became the first city to join the Sonoma Clean Power Authority, created as an alternative to PG&E to provide a greener product at competitive, if not cheaper rates.

As the region looks for more effective ways to integrate wind and other renewable energy sources, the Bonneville Power Administration and its customers have agreed to settle the portion of BPA's rate case that defines charges for balancing services, or generation inputs, that maintain a constant balance of the energy produced and energy consumed.

An initiative that would allow utilities to count all hydroelectric power toward renewable energy requirements was approved this week for signature gathering .

Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy 's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have reported the first fully integrated nanosystem for artificial photosynthesis.

NASA's In-Space Validation of Earth Science Technologies program has funded a team led by Lars Dyrud, a scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., to develop a miniature instrument that will measure the amount of solar energy reflected by Earth and the amount emitted to space as infrared radiation or heat.

Green Orchard, the home Paul Archer designed for his parents outside Bristol, England, sows the seeds of an active retirement.

Wind turbines line the crest of a hill in Canada. New studies question just how much wind farms can grow before they encounter a limiting wind-shadow effect.

By a 15-5 vote, the Senate Agriculture Committee sent the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2013 and its commitment to renewable energy to the full Senate , which could take it up next week.

The Scottish Islands could make a significant contribution to the UK's 2020 renewable energy targets, according to a joint report by the UK and Scottish Governments.

Their quarry is a potentially efficient, cost-effective, photoelectrochemical cell -- essentially a solar cell that produces hydrogen gas instead of electric current.

To the federal government, ethanol only counts as a conventional biofuel if it is produced from switch grass, corn starch or other easily replenished materials.

The Chinese government's determination to fight air pollution and the nation's developing solar energy market have attracted more international players to compete for a slice of the cake.

Researchers at SUNY Buffalo are working on a new generation of liquid solar cells that may one day be as cheap as paint.

The European Commission has carried out surprise inspections at several major oil companies over possible price fixing in breach of European Union anti-trust rules.

Solomon, a 14-year-old golden eagle, perches on a branch at the Sulphur Creek Nature Center in Hayward.

With advances in solar power, batteries have had to evolve to prove their worth.