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...

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...

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...

Smaller More Efficient Solar Energy Tower Now Able to Provide Base Load

ABC News Australia reports that planned modifications to a proposed green energy solar tower (also known as a solar chimney) in north-wester...

Reducing Electricity Costs With Solar Panels and Wind Turbines in Scotland

Scotland's Herald reports that a quiet revolution is sweeping the country. It involves hundreds of schools, community groups and small b...

Alternative Energy in Developing Countries: New U.N. Report

a Ghanaian woman A United Nations environment agency survey has revealed the potential for renewable energy in some of the world's devel...

Solar Energy Nanotechnology: Carbon Nanotubes Used to Improve Efficiency

Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) scientists have demonstrated an ability to precisely grow skyscraper like "towers" composed...

Alternative Energy California: A Million Solar Power Homes?

Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new plan to make California a world leader in solar energy. It drops a previous provision, ...

Alternative Energy Zambia: Solar Power for Rural Electrification

One hundred and twenty one community-based organisations and nine schools in rural areas of Zambia will soon be getting BP Solar panels to g...

Site Agreed for Australian Solar Tower, Plans for Solar Tower in China

The firm behind the plan to build a power-generating solar tower (also described as a solar chimney) - touted as the world's tallest str...

Alternative Energy Afghanistan: Solar Energy for Rural Use

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said that it has approved a $750,000-dollar grant to develop solar energy technology for use in isolate...

Alternative Energy Bangladesh: Reaching Where the Grid Can't

According to this editorial in the Financial Express of Bangladesh daily loadshedding and suspension of production in industrial zones due t...