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Thanks largely to multi-billion dollar subsidies, Europe had 70,000 MW of solar photovoltaic installed by the end of 2012, compared to a global total of 102,000 MW, according to data from the European Photovoltaic Industry Association. Dim growth in ...

An official report published today on the dangers of failing to invest in renewable energy represents a timely call for the Government to set clear long-term policies to boost the deployment of wind, wave and tidal power.

The Committee on Climate Change is also right to highlight the fact that the current lack of a long-term political vision is jeopardising investment in renewable energy projects – including the development of the supply chain which could create tens of ...

A geothermal exploration drilling fund, pooling money from either private investors and banks or government entities and development banks, would help finance about 473 megawatts across 24 projects, London-based researcher Bloomberg New Energy ...

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ( GS ) intends to invest about 50 billion yen ($487 million) in renewable energy in Japan in the next 5 years. The investment banking major plans to

Not shale gas or crude oil, but fresh water and suitable land to produce 25 billion gallons of algae-based biofuel--a month's worth of the country's fuel needs each year. The discovery comes from the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National ...

So the question becomes, would the influx of nearly a half a billion gallons of Argentine biodiesel into the U.S. market decimate the U.S. biodiesel industry, or would it help fulfill shortfalls in the undifferentiated advanced biofuel pool? Early this year we heard ...

A new study from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) estimates that the US could support the production of up to 25 billion gallons of algae biofuel annually. That accounts for a whopping one-twelfth of the nation's current needs and it could prove ...

Ed Davey tells conference that more than one-third of the UK's subsidies for wind, wave and tidal energy is spent in ScotlandEd Davey, the UK energy secretary, has warned that Scotland could lose billions of pounds in subsidies for renewable energy projects if it voted for independence, putting its green energy revolution at risk

(AP) — It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground. Killing these iconic ... His administration has championed a $1 billion-a-year tax break to the industry that has nearly doubled the amount of wind power in his first term

More than £29 billion has been invested in renewable energy in the UK since January 2010, figures from the government reveal. Research by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) shows than more than £29 billion of private investment has ...

Mr Kageyama said that the company doesn't have a comparative figure for current geothermal sales as there has been little development in Japan over the past several years. The country's last commercial geothermal plant was built in 1999 on Hachijo island, ...

According to a new study by Siemens, Europe could save €45 billion by 2030 if renewable energy installations were built on sites that offer the highest power yields. Working in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich in Germany, Siemens ...

With South Africa’s electricity woes becoming more pressing, power utility Eskom has won the National Energy Regulator’s (Nersa’s) approval to build a R2.4-billion wind farm in the Western Cape.