German trains to run on 100% renewables

During our live chat with Solarcentury's Jeremy Leggett yesterday, we started out by discussing the high profile solar railway bridge his company is helping install in central London as

Solar comes of age: solarcity to double PV systems on american homes by 2016

A leading American solar company is set to begin the largest residential rooftop project ever undertaken, effectively doubling the number of solar systems currently on homes around the U.S.

New Zealand commits to spend $6.7 million to fund first solar plant for Tonga

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Cost of solar electricity to be halved by 2020

PV - Cost of solar electricity to be halved by 2020 - Renewable Energy Magazine, at the heart of clean energy journalism

Australia takes first steps into utility-scale solar

Australia is taking its first leap into utility-scale solar PV with a 10-megawatt (MW) AC project located in Western Australia – 10 times larger than any operating project in the country.

India receives €200 million loan from EIB to fund renewable energy projects

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Solar may produce most of world’s power by 2060, IEA says

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Renewables meet 16 percent of global final energy consumption in 2010

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Global investments in green energy up nearly a third to $211 billion

Wind farms in China and small-scale solar panels on rooftops in Europe were largely responsible for last year

Pythagoras Solar turns windows into panels of energy

Pythagoras Solar, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, is working on creating solar windows that could generate power for office buildings and

Will the Fukushima disaster spark growth in sustainable energy investments?

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New omni-directional wind turbine can capture wind energy on building rooftops

(PhysOrg.com) -- Katru Eco-Energy, headed by founder and inventor, Varan Sureshan, has developed a new kind of wind turbine meant to capture the winds that fly in all directions atop big buildings, and unlike conventional devices, the IMPLUX, as it’s called, can capture wind from any direction as it stands; meaning without having to be repositioned or pointed. The IMPLUX achieves this feat by means of horizontal turbine blades that sit atop a vertical axis and are turned by wind that is pushed up through what Sureshan calls a "fluid dynamic gate."

First commercial offshore wind farm goes live

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