Green Lending Turns a Corner

The liquidity squeeze has hit most economic sectors hard, including the renewables industry. But the credit cycle appears to be turning a corner, and...

Drilling Wind in the Middle East

The Middle East is where primitive windmills arose and yet, today this is one of the regions with less wind power megawatts installed. The commitment ...

Ocean Breezes Strengthen

Offshore Wind Power Begins to Show Its Muscle.

Leading the Race for Renewable Energy

Spurred by concerns of climate change and energy security, the world is shifting to non-fossil, non-nuclear fuels.

Green Synergy

The renewable energy industry has been targeted as a key area for investment for three primary reasons: greater energy independence; improved environm...

Finding the real cost of energy

Economists criticise the current method for determining the lifetime cost of energy of a power plant. Fossil fuel generation comes out ahead unfairly ...

Constructively Green

The world green building council seeks more legislation to cement the success of green building rating systems.

Wind Beats Ethanol in Car Energy Study

Wind tops ethanol and clean coal as best option to power America’s cars in comprehensive study comparing effects of energy sources on environment, ene...

Foiling Murphy’s law

What can go wrong probably will go wrong – predicting and preventing errors in operation is one of the biggest challenges facing wind turbine manufact...

Virtual Reality Comes to Alternative Energy

Imagine a world in which impossibly heavy objects move at your slightest touch, or in which you can navigate through the most intricate systems. Such...

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