China Beats U.S. on Renewable-Energy Investor Ranking
8 Sep 2010 at 5:45am
China overtook the U.S. to lead a quarterly index of the most attractive countries for renewable energy projects for the first time, according to a list compiled by the global accounting firm Ernst & Young.
UK 'heat pumps' fail as green devices, finds study
8 Sep 2010 at 1:53am
Adam Vaughan, the Guardian - Published under license by, BusinessGreen , Wednesday 8 September 2010 at 09:41:00 Badly installed heat pumps would not be recognised as renewable energy under proposed European standards, says the Energy Saving Trust Government plans to subsidise green heating are challenged today by the largest ever field study of "heat pump" devices in the UK, which reveals 80 ...
Europe ranks highest in PV electricity generation capacity
7 Sep 2010 at 11:49pm
According to a new report, more than three quarters of the world?s new photovoltaic solar systems were installed in Europe in 2009, producing a peak amount of new electricity of around 5.8GW.
A different kind of farm field
7 Sep 2010 at 11:06pm
A late summer sun beat down last Thursday morning on the dairy cows in the pasture at Maple View Farm, on a crowd of people gathered nearby - and on an array of 276 solar panels recently erected beside the pasture.
Department Of Energy Announces $8.5M To Advance Solar Energy Grid Integration...
7 Sep 2010 at 9:50pm
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently announced that the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories is investing $8.5M for four projects that have reached Stage III of the Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS) program.
CMC kicks off district-wide energy-efficiency upgrades
7 Sep 2010 at 6:03pm
Workers are installing the ?loop field? or coils for the new geoexchange system for energy-efficient cooling and heating of the residence halls at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs-Spring Valley.
Three-Quarters Of New Solar Systems Worldwide Were Installed In The EU In 2009
7 Sep 2010 at 4:08pm
In 2009, newly installed photovoltaic (PV) cells world-wide produced a peak amount of electricity estimated at 7.4 GW, out of which 5.8 GW was located in Europe. Similarly to previous years, this shows the EU's dominance, where more than three quarters of the world's new solar systems were installed. By the end of 2009, Europe's cumulative installed PV electricity generation capacity (existing ...