Electric vehicle (EV) enthusiasts acknowledge that one of the biggest barriers to mass adoption of the technology is likely to be the ability of the grid to cope with new patterns of...

A leading US utility has this week signed a new deal to secure solar power for up to 21,000 homes at a price that is less than half the level it previously...

Shareholders in Shell rejected proposals for the oil giant to set public emission reduction targets at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in the Netherlands yesterday. The proposals were rejected by 94 per cent...

Swedish energy giant Vattenfall has confirmed plans to create Wales' largest wind-plus-storage energy site at the 228MW Pen y Cymoedd wind farm. Later this year the 76-turbine wind farm, the largest onshore wind...

Hopes that a Conservative government could open the door for new onshore wind projects outside of England were dealt a blow late last week, after the Scottish Conservatives' manifesto underlined the party's...

Swiss voters have approved a major new energy reform package, which will see the country phase out nuclear power and deliver a surge in renewables capacity. Final figures from Sunday's referendum on the...

Germany's first competitive wind power auction under its new feed-in tariff regime has defied expectations by delivering an average bid price of just 5.71 Euro cents. The country's Federal Energy Network Agency -...

Seemingly biofuel can be made out of almost anything, from chocolate to human fat. But what are the weirdest biofuel sources out there? Biofuel can be made from a variety of weird and...

A small Austrian town fights climate change with an innovative partnership of small, local entrepreneurs. The small town of Bruck an der Leitha 45 kilometers southeast of Vienna is at the forefront of...

The East Asian island plans to invest 684 billion New Taiwan dollars ($22.7bn) as part of the nation’s 8 year plan to boost wind generated electricity to 4,200 megawatts (MW) by 2025. Taiwan's...

In a bid to help reduce the country’s growing air pollution problems, the government of Romania has reportedly doubled the incentives on offer for buyers of plug-in electric vehicles. Following the changes —...

Up to 20,000 Syrian refugees living in the Azraq refugee camp have been given access to free clean power thanks to the world's first solar farm to be deployed at a UN...

A legal ruling in Scotland has given second life to as much as 2.3 gigawatts worth of offshore wind farms that had previously been halted due to concerns over their impact on...

The first commercial offshore wind farm to make use of the next generation of giant 8MW turbines will be officially inaugurated later today at a ceremony to mark the official opening of...

Tetra Pak has confirmed it now uses enough renewable power to meet a third of its total annual electricity consumption worldwide, as the company works towards its goal of sourcing all its...

Fund management specialist Octopus Investments Limited has successfully closed a new £300m fund dedicated to investing in operational renewable power projects in the UK. The company announced last week that backing from an...