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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 ...

Once solar power is cheaper than buying power from the grid, subsidies will be just an additional incentive. At some point, and that point may not be far off, that solar death spiral will very likely claim an American utility. And it's not as if PG&E isn't vulnerable, ...

When it comes to renewable energy, state policy has yielded by far the most progress. In 29 states, this has come mainly through renewable portfolio/energy standards, known as RPSs. These laws require public utilities to purchase or generate a certain ...

Solar power is becoming more and more viable as an electricity source but it's being tested in some very exciting and "out there" applications as well. Let's take a peak into a few places beyond the rooftop and utility plants where we may use solar power in the ...

State utility regulators heard testimony Tuesday on the energy plans from Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power, which must submit new plans every three years. Advocates for the state's solar power industry and tea party leaders fault Georgia Power for not ...

"Imagine opening a hatch in a submarine under water. The water will flow into the submarine with enormous force. It is precisely this energy potential we want to utilize." This is how German engineer Rainer Schramm describes his idea for storing energy under the sea. By using surplus energy to pump water out of a tank at the seabed, the water is simply let back in again when there's an energy

He's also excited to revive interest in the radioactive mining byproduct thorium as an alternative energy source. Thorium is now treated as hazardous waste, but Kennedy says Missouri can become a global leader by building a storage bank from which utilities ...

Wind power is nothing new to the area; Northeast Iowa has more than its share of turbines humming these days. Waverly Light and Power's commitment to wind energy has been well noted. MidAmerican Energy is another example. The company recently ...

To offset its emissions, the company has invested more than $1 billion in renewable-energy projects, installed solar panels at its Mountain View headquarters, and purchased more than 260 MW of wind power to help power its data centers. Mountain View HQ.

Xnergy is a full-service EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) firm, which has engineered, installed, and/or commissioned over 100 MW of alternative energy systems. Xnergy provides a broad range of comprehensive energy solutions including the ...

The International Hydropower Association (IHA) should not support Sarawak’s plans to build more mega-dams in Sarawak, says SAVE Rivers. MIRI: Save Sarawak Rivers Network (SAVE Rivers) is demanding that the International Hydropower Association (IHA) stop supporting the Sarawak state government and the state-owned energy utility Sarawak Energy Berhad(SEB)’s plans to build at least 12 additional

During a question and answer session, shareholders asked why the company does not invest more in renewable energy and why it opposed a state proposal that would require the utility to have 25 percent of its electricity come from renewable energy ...

Siemens's SA unit has won the contract to supply 46 wind turbines to power utility Eskom's 100 megawatt Sere wind farm, says the German company.

Perth-based utility group SSE has agreed to buy a wind farm project near Loch Mhor from Renewable Energy Systems. The 33-turbine Dunmaglass project, south of Inverness, received planning consent in December 2010 and construction is expected to ...