The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena) has approved a $450,000 grant to EnergyAustralia to investigate a pumped hydro energy storage project off South Australia as the state’s energy mix continues to cause...

The prolonged closure of a major French atomic reactor after an explosion this month probably costs EDF at least £1m a day, according to experts. The nuclear plant operator, which will spend £18bn...

The government has indicated it will act to allow the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to finance new coal-fired power plants on the basis that these coal plants have lower emissions than existing...

SunPower is to supply E-Series solar panels totalling 64.4MW for seven photovoltaic plants to be developed by La Compagnie du Vent in France. A large portion of the panels will be manufactured at...

Last year's solar deployment numbers just came in and they are, in a word, phenomenal. Utilities bought more new solar capacity than they did natural gas capacity: an astounding 22 states added...

ABB has completed a substation to deliver the electricity generated by a 200MW photovoltaic plant in Dubai. The 400/132kV gas-insulated switchgear unit, built for local utility Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA), will...

Analysis on coal often tends to be one-sided. But to truly understand the important role that coal plays, for better or worse, in the global energy system, it is critical that we...

Excess power generation capacity provides India an opportunity to shift completely to green energy. If the country can halve storage technology prices in 10 years it can do without the need for...

South Africa’s main renewable energy industry body said on Sunday it was confident the country’s renewable power programme would soon be back up to speed after President Jacob Zuma showed support for...

ABB in India was nominated ‘Solar Inverter Supplier of the Year 2016’. The award was presented as part of the first Solar Today Awards at Intersolar India 2016. ABB has been working in...

Renewable energy sources made up nearly nine-tenths of new power added to Europe’s electricity grids last year, in a sign of the continent’s rapid shift away from fossil fuels. But industry leaders said...

The newly awarded project to EPTISA in consortium with BERNARD Ingenieure ZT GmbH, funded by the European Union and managed by the Department for Contracting and Financing of EU Programmes (CFCU) aims...

Wind energy delivered 9.9 per cent of Europe's power demand on Monday, providing enough electricity for 100 million EU households or 35 per cent of all industrial power demand. That update was provided...

Costa has officially launched its new coffee cup recycling scheme in over 2,000 stores across the UK, promising to ensure any paper coffee cup deposited by customers is recycled. The company, which first...

Iran has become the latest Middle Eastern country to announce ambitious plans to beef up its renewable energy capacity, outlining proposals to invest $3bn in delivering 5GW of new clean energy capacity. Speaking...

Ambitious plans to turn the Tees Valley into a globally significant carbon capture and storage (CCS) hub will today take a major step forward with the publication of new proposals on how...