Top Ten UK Alternative Energy Projects

Solar Powered CIS Tower in Manchester The UK’s top ten alternative energy projects have been named by the UK government’s Department of Trad...

Australia: Alternative Energy Grants

Geothermal Plant From geothermal power to better batteries, millions have been spent on alternative energy research grants in Australia, acc...

Alternative Energy Hungary: First Windfarm in Hungary

Kaposvar Austrian company Öko-Energia GmbH is to invest Ft60 billion ($284.6 million) in establishing the first wind farm in Hungary, in the...

Alternative Energy in Central America

Managua, Nicaragua Cancún, Mexico - With the signing of an energy partnership with Mexico, Central America is poised to see a steady supply ...

Alternative Energy Kazakhstan: Wind Power

Tian Shan Mountains Kazakhstan plans to build a five megawatt wind power station by 2010 at Dzungarian Gates near the Chinese border as part...

Energy Freedom Challenge: Clean Energy Capital of the United States of America

Austin 8 News reports that Austin, Texas is to host a nationwide competition and the prize is the title of "Clean Energy Capital of the...

BP to Create BP Alternative Energy Business Unit

BP has announced that it plans to double its investment in alternative and renewable energies to create a new low-carbon power business with...

Hurricane Wilma Power Outages Boost Solar Power in Florida

Florida Solar Energy Center South Florida's Sun-Sentinel newspaper reports that Florida resident Pam Wall was able to relax while the re...

Ecovillages, Watching TV, Saving Water and Changing Energy Consumption

One of the aims of the Alternative Energy Blog is to go beyond reporting the opening of the latest windfarm and explore our existing energy ...

Windpower Microgeneration: Home Wind Turbines

According to BBC News household windmills are becoming quite the fashion, but they ask can they make money? Domestic wind turbines have been...

Alternative Energy Investment

Mark Tran reports in the Guardian on the state of the alternative energy investment market. The past few months have seen record levels of i...

North Korea: Energy Security - Progress via Energy Aid?

almost empty streets at 5pm in Pyongyang in 2002 BBC News reported last month that South Korea has offered 2,000MW (2 Gigawatts) of free ele...

Alternative Energy Blog is One

It's been one year. I'd like to thank in no clear order... Jamais Cascio and everyone else from the excellent group blog World Chang...

Alternative Fuel: Ethanol Fuel Production Subsidies

I was recently taken to task by a reader for not giving more coverage to ethanol fuel (alcohol). I replied that I am yet to be convinced tha...

Atomic Power Creates More Greenhouse CO2 Emissions than Natural Gas Plants?

Osprey Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plant in Florida It's been excellent to see the debate going on in the comments section over the...

Micro Wind Power Turbines for UK Office Building

The BBC reports that an miniature urban wind farm is being built on top of a 13-storey building in Manchester city centre using micro wind t...

Only 85 years of Uranium Supplies?

Uranium Agence France-Presse reports that a British think tank opposed what it said were draft plans by the Group of Eight (G8) industrial n...

Hot Fusion Energy

The BBC reports that France will get to host the project to build a 10bn-euro ($12.16bn) fusion reactor, in the face of strong competition f...

Alternative Energy Venezuela: OPEC Oil Producer Switches to Wind Power to Increase Exports

Playa Medina, Sucre, Venezuela Business News Americas reports that Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA aims to boost fuel oil exports by...

Home Savings from Ground Source Heat Pumps

Alternative Energy Blog reader Bruce Stenswick from Minnesota emailed me about his experience of installing a ground source heat pump. Here...

World Leaders Needed: The Future of Oil and Everything Else

Today's post is inspired by an engineer, details of which I'll get to later. Energy is the future. Our future depends on energy. Man...

Wind Energy China: One Gigawatt Wind Power Plant Largest in China

The China Education and Research Network reports a 1,000 megawatt (one gigawatt) wind power plant, currently the largest in China, has been ...

Wind Energy: Wind Power Australia

The second-biggest wind farm in Victoria, Australia – a $326-million project with 128 turbines – will go ahead at Waubra in western Victoria...

Alternative Energy Armenia: First Wind Power Plant

Iran and Armenia has signed an agreement for SANIR Co to construct four wind turbines units in Armenia in the next two months. The capacity ...

Energy Independence vs. Energy Illiteracy

Americans overwhelmingly want a new direction for U.S. energy policy in the United States and believe dependence on imported oil is a very s...

Wind Energy: Vietnam Wind Power

Vietnam's Thanh Nien newspaper reports that a major Danish development agency has provided funds of over U.S. 51 million dollars (VND820...

Alternative Energy Nevada: Incentives to Install Solar Panels in NV

An energy bill designed to encourage energy efficiency and boost the usage of alternative energy by Nevada's utilities was one of the la...

University of Illinois at Chicago Study Provides Boost for Wind Power

Mike Ramsey reports in the PJStar that Gov. Rod Blagojevich's proposed renewable energy standards for electric utilities would generate ...

Shell WindEnergy Plans World's Largest Wind Farm Supplying 25% of London Homes' Electricity

Plans have been submitted to build one of the world's largest wind farms, which could generate enough electricity to supply a quarter of...

Alternative Energy Vietnam: 400MW Geothermal Energy Capacity

Vietnams's Thanh Nien newspaper reports that the earth can be regarded as an enormous geothermal machine, the abundant energy of which i...

Japan Seeks Protection From Crude Oil Prices By Reducing Energy Consumption

James Brooker reports in the New York Times that surging oil prices and growing concern about meeting targets on cutting emissions produced ...