Renewable Energy

National Grid UK says yes to a grid connect with Ireland that could bring in 3,000 megawatts of wind power.

Instead of reviewing the literature on wind turbines and their impact on human health, Canada plans to conduct actual new scientific research.

In part because it does so poorly on transportation, the United States is ranked ninth out of 12 large economies in a new energy efficiency assessment.

Ocean Power Technologies teams with Lockheed Martin on one of the world’s largest wave power projects, in Australia, sending its stock soaring.

Prisoners at a Brazil jail trim their sentences (and their waistlines) by pedaling a stationary bike, producing power that’s used to light the town square.

With widening opportunities for renewable natural gas in transportation and cogeneration, analysts see steady growth for the biogas industry over the next decade.

The 32nd and final 700-megawatt turbine begins operating at China’s Three Gorges Dam as China tries to temper its fossil-fuel appetite.

South Korea, through offshore wind power, is looking to expand its presence into cleaner forms of energy for its citizens.

A team from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has found a way of producing cheaper microbial fuel cells (MFCs).

Rare earth metals are an essential component in renewable energy technology and right now China has a monopoly.

A design concept for a 100 percent fossil-fuel free cargo ship of the future has drawn inspiration from maritime history.

EBay says it will use 30 Bloom Energy fuel cells, putting out 6 megawatts of electricity, to power a new data center in Utah.

Wind turbines are getting larger and a new study says that’s good, because they produce more energy with reduced life-cycle greenhouse-gas impact.