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...