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...

The UK's offshore wind sector has enjoyed a bumper year according to new data, with the total value of construction projects in 2016 hitting £4.1bn, up from just £2.45bn a year earlier. New...

Volvo Cars will be introducing its first all-electric models in 2019, going by recent comments made by the Senior Director of Electric Propulsion Systems at the firm, Mats Anderson. The comments — which...

The Indian government has confirmed that it will go ahead with a second phase of its solar power park program. The announcement was made by the Minister of Finance in the union budget...

Several companies already manufacture electric buses, which now operate in several cities around the country. But the CEO of electric-bus maker Proterra believes these vehicles will soon challenge their internal-combustion counterparts for dominance...

European Commission provides €30 million grant to regional programme. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Commission (EC) are stepping up their joint efforts to promote energy efficiency across...

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...

Rosatom has approved partnership of its daughter company Otek with the Dutch Lagerwey in wind energy projects. On studying the feasibility of partnership with a number of wind turbines manufacturers Jsc Otek...

Nearly two thirds of British adults accept climate change is happening and is primarily due to human activity, according to a major new poll that detects a "discernible shift" in the public's...

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...

If the aviation sector were a country, it would be the eighth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world — using planes and helicopters to move people and cargo around the world...

Danish wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems supplied 43% of the 8.2 GW of wind power capacity connected to the U.S. power grid last year, overtaking General Electric as the number one...

NTR has acquired the 25MW Castlecraig wind farm in Northern Ireland from RES for its NTR Wind 1 fund. The deal, which was first revealed in the subscriber-only newsletter reNEWs, is the...

Much of the air pollution in China comes from natural sources, rather than the burning of fossil fuels that makes up most of the problem in the West. Smog in Europe and North...

IEA Executive Director Dr Fatih Birol met today in Athens with the Greek Minister for Environment and Energy, George Stathakis, to discuss the energy sector transition and the outlook of global energy...

OPEC Secretary General, HE Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, met with Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of French oil and gas company TOTAL SA, during a high-level meeting Tuesday at the company’s...