Renewable Energy News

It’s devastating to see my hometown of New York so crippled by Hurricane Sandy. There are so many tragedies from this one event. Not only was there an estimated $50 billion in economic losses, but at least 38 people have died in the city alone. For these and other reasons, New York’s billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg finally brought climate chang

First – the photovoltaic industry is global and all regions participate in the good times and the hard times, though, not always at the same time and in the same way. For example, as demand side participants in Europe (installers, system integrators, et al) enjoyed serving the largest market for solar installations, the region's manufacturers steadily lost share. In the U.S., demand has soared (thanks in part to the grant in lieu of ITC, which expired at the end of 2011), while U.S. technology manufacturers are struggling, in some cases failing.

Finalists have been chosen for the Projects of the Year Awards, and now it’s time to cast your vote for the Readers’ Choice Award. But this year is different.  Not only have we this year opened nominations to a global audience, Renewable Energy World North America is now co-located with Power-Gen International, which is where we will present the aw

News of job growth is always a good thing. But when that news just so happens to apply to a segment as beset with challenges as the solar industry, it crosses the line from good to great. Today, The Solar Foundation (TSF) announced encouraging statistics that show despite recent setbacks and reports of layoffs, the U.S. solar industry is expanding at a clip nearly six times that of the overall economy.

The cost of running and maintaining wind farms has fallen 38 percent in four years as competition among contractors increased and turbine performance improved, bringing closer the day that the technology matches fossil fuel.

With the recent announcement that the Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond is launching a £103 million fund for Scottish renewable energy projects, it is a prosperous time for the industry, especially for wave and tidal technologies. Wave and tidal energy generation is significant in the provision of energy to the UK, with the UK highly sought upon

Many people expect that solar power will dramatically expand once it bursts through the cost barrier and becomes less expensive than grid electricity.  But archaic utility rules can effectively cap local solar development at just 15% of peak demand.  Fortunately, pioneering states like Hawaii and California are exploring ways to lift the cap and br

Wind and solar are relatively safe forms of energy, a feature that we tend to overlook until a disaster hits like the "superstorm" that disabled New York City's power grid this week.

Britain's two government coalition parties clashed over the policy for wind-farm expansion, unsettling industry officials seeking clarity on how much support they can expect.

While most of us probably take it for granted, energy plays an integral role in our daily lives—in commuting to work, running the dishwasher, charging our mobile devices, and cooling an office building, not to mention the manufacture of every product we buy. For better or for worse, nearly everything we do requires energy, and we use more energy now than we ever have before.

It's been a year of both continued expansion and mounting challenges for the global solar industry. RenewableEnergyWorld asked solar industry executives to share their thoughts and insights on one burning question:

Responding to projections that the solar panel module overcapacity will continue for at least another year, solar equipment maker GT Advanced Technologies today announced a restructuring plan. The company will lay off approximately 25 percent of its workforce and consolidate its existing business units into a single Crystal Growth Systems (CGS) group.

Despite healthy expected returns, finance-related challenges remain the largest barriers to renewable energy development, according to NREL's Renewable Energy Finance Tracking Initiative (REFTI).

A spectacular event in our world’s history is emerging that will bring unparalleled change.  As the fifth wave of the Information Revolution is upon us, the deployment of the ‘Mobile Internet’ is disrupting the status quo of business and communications as it grows in orders of magnitude beyond belief.  The CEO of Google, Larry Page, estimates that

Finalists have been chosen for the Projects of the Year Awards, and now it’s time to cast your vote for the Readers’ Choice Award. But this year is different.  Not only have we this year opened nominations to a global audience, Renewable Energy World North America is now co-located with Power-Gen International, which is where we will present the aw

Pelamis Wave Power Ltd., supplier of the world's first multiple-machine wave farm, is in talks on a partnership to expand as it prepares for an influx of orders.

Paul Gipe recently wrote a long post on the possibility of introducing feed-in tariffs for fossil fuel or nuclear-generated electricity.

It is nearly impossible to carry out wind power investments in Finland because a patchwork of environmental regulation thwarts projects, the country's biggest utility Fortum Oyj said.

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Securum Equity Partners & Associates, a venture management company, said it signed a definitive agreement with Serbia on building the "largestsolar park in the world" in the Balkan country.