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IEA Wind TCP 2015 Annual Report Highlights International Collaborative Research Advancing Wind Energy

Wind-generated electricity met close to four percent of the world’s electricity demand in 2015 - a record-setting year with more than 63 GW of new wind power capacity installed, according to IEA Wind’s latest...

18 Oct 2016

27 Teams Advancing in $20m NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE

Teams in global competition want to convert CO2 waste into products ranging from building materials to toothpaste. XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and managing incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand ...

From NRG Energy, Inc. 18 Oct 2016

Scientists Develop ‘Super Yeast’ to Enhance Biofuel Economics

A new method of nearly doubling the efficiency of common yeast strain to convert plant sugars into biofuel has been discovered by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC).

17 Oct 2016

Biofuels Researchers Engineer Plant Lignin and Explain Evolutionary Path

In 2014, researchers announced the successful engineering of a poplar plant "designed for deconstruction.” The finding caught the attention of the global scientific community.

17 Oct 2016

Negative Emissions Technologies May Pass the Buck for Reducing Carbon on to Future Generations

The Paris Agreement on climate change and the carbon-reduction plans of many governments (including the UK) are unwittingly reliant on unproven technologies to suck hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere.

17 Oct 2016

Quebec, Iceland Sign Agreement to Launch Research Projects to Foster Development of Sustainable Energy

At the impetus of INRS, an international cooperation agreement has been forged between Quebec and Iceland.

17 Oct 2016

Sandia Engineers Try to Optimize Performance of Wave-Energy Converters

Wave energy is one of the largest unexploited clean energy sources on earth, and one day it could potentially power millions of households across the United States. Although it has been years since the power of ocean waves was first analyzed, wave energy continues to be one of the toughest energy sources to harness.

14 Oct 2016

Scientists Develop Innovative Concept to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Valuable Products

A research team from Ghent University developed an innovative concept to convert CO2 into valuable products. The new process, coined “super-dry” methane reforming, intensifies CO2 conversion, so the prestigious scientific journal Science reports.

14 Oct 2016

New Financing Mechanism Makes Residential Energy Improvements More Accessible to Homeowners

Boynton Beach and Lake Clarke Shores have become the first municipalities in Palm Beach County to make the HERO Program available to local residents.

14 Oct 2016

Sodexo Plans to Reduce Carbon Emissions by 34% at Food Service and Facilities Management Sites by 2025

Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life services, is making major reductions in both waste and carbon emissions at the facilities, cafés, sport and leisure venues and other food service sites where it operates.

14 Oct 2016

SANY to Expand Wind Power Business Globally

SANY Group has made a history when they exported their five 2.0 MW wind turbines to the Ralls Wind Farm in the United States.

14 Oct 2016

New Study Shows China as Largest Emitter of Certain Toxic Fluorinated Chemicals in the World

China is today the largest emitter of certain toxic fluorinated chemicals in the world, as presented in a new study published in Environmental Science and Technology.

13 Oct 2016

CleanSpark to Showcase Renewable Energy Technologies at Two Microgrid Conferences this Month

Stratean, the developer of a patented and revolutionary "stratified" downdraft gasifier, today announced that CleanSpark, LLC, Stratean's wholly owned subsidiary, will showcase its renewable energy technologies at two major microgrid conferences during October.

13 Oct 2016

More Deforestation Happening in Brazil than Official Accounts Suggest, New Study Finds

Efforts by the Brazilian government over the past 15 years to curb deforestation have been a widely celebrated success, but a new study finds that there’s more deforestation happening in Brazil than official accounts suggest.

13 Oct 2016

Scientists Working to Understand Atmospheric Pollutants to Better Predict Future of Arctic Region

In pictures, the Arctic appears pristine and timeless with its barren lands and icy landscape. In reality, the area is rapidly changing.

13 Oct 2016

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IEA Wind TCP 2015 Annual Report Highlights International Collaborative Research Advancing Wind Energy

27 Teams Advancing in $20m NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE

Scientists Develop ‘Super Yeast’ to Enhance Biofuel Economics

Biofuels Researchers Engineer Plant Lignin and Explain Evolutionary Path

Negative Emissions Technologies May Pass the Buck for Reducing Carbon on to Future Generations

Quebec, Iceland Sign Agreement to Launch Research Projects to Foster Development of Sustainable Energy

Sandia Engineers Try to Optimize Performance of Wave-Energy Converters

Scientists Develop Innovative Concept to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Valuable Products

New Financing Mechanism Makes Residential Energy Improvements More Accessible to Homeowners

Sodexo Plans to Reduce Carbon Emissions by 34% at Food Service and Facilities Management Sites by 2025

SANY to Expand Wind Power Business Globally

New Study Shows China as Largest Emitter of Certain Toxic Fluorinated Chemicals in the World

CleanSpark to Showcase Renewable Energy Technologies at Two Microgrid Conferences this Month

More Deforestation Happening in Brazil than Official Accounts Suggest, New Study Finds

Scientists Working to Understand Atmospheric Pollutants to Better Predict Future of Arctic Region

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