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10 Percent of US Energy Could be Solar by 2025

A new study makes the case that solar power is emerging as a cost-effective hedge against fossil fuels and is likely to reach cost parity with retail-electricity rates in most regions of the U.S. in less than a decade

17 Jun 2008

Choosing our Tomorrows, A Film Set in the Future Looks at What If Scenarios for Climate Change

Choosing our Tomorrows, is a film that explores what life could be like in 2050 through the video diaries of the same Scottish farming family as they experience three very different futures...

17 Jun 2008

Boralex Acquires Hydroelectric Power Station in British Columbia

Boralex Inc. announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire a hydroelectric power station with an installed capacity of 14.5 MW located in Ocean Falls, British Columbia. In addition to its power purchase agreement, this power station also brings hydroelectric potential upside of up to 37 MW, which will be developed by Boralex over the course of the coming years.

11 Jun 2008

Getting the Navy to Use More Nuclear Fuel

ON 12 October 2000, the destroyer USS Cole hove into port at Aden in Yemen for routine refuelling.

11 Jun 2008

Exhibition Showcases Bold Eco Warriors and Green Pioneers

The International Museum of Women (I.M.O.W.), a non-partisan social change museum, explores links between politics, women, and the environment this month in the global online exhibition Women, Power and Politics. With climate change the hot topic on political agendas around the world, the multimedia exhibition makes a timely exploration of political activism through women's efforts to save the earth.

9 Jun 2008

Creating a Relatively Safe, Contained, Solid-State Hydrogen Storage System

What looks like a fertilized egg, flows like water, gets stuffed with catalysts and exotic nanostructures and may have the potential of making the current retail gasoline infrastructure compatible with hydrogen-based vehicles of the future - not to mention also contributing to arenas such as nuclear proliferation and global warming?

7 Jun 2008

Projects Employ Environmental Control Technology to Minimize Plant Emissions

The North Carolina Utilities Commission today gave Duke Energy Carolinas the necessary regulatory approval to build two combined cycle, natural gas-fired generating units to serve its customers.

6 Jun 2008

Showcasing Scientific Knowledge About Energy Now and into the Future

The critical issue of how to power the future of Australia will be discussed in a series of public forums organised by the Whitlam Institute and the College of Health and Science within the University of Western Sydney.

1 Jun 2008

Comprehensive Study of Technology and Economics of Harnessing Power of the Sun

In a major new project that could help set the agenda for policymakers, researchers and industry leaders, a team of MIT faculty members has begun a comprehensive study of the technology and the economics of a variety of approaches to harnessing the power of the sun.

1 Jun 2008

Customers Would Have Option to Buy All or Part From Renewable Sources

Dominion Virginia Power, a subsidiary of Dominion, asked the Virginia State Corporation Commission today for permission to offer its customers two new options to purchase renewable energy.

29 May 2008