When it comes to producing solar power, efficiency is the key efficiency of the panels, efficiency of the system's collectors and, according to SkyFuel, efficiency of the solar concentrator technology. Solar concentrators are increasingly being... [more]

As it turns out, the United States and China are going to walk hand in hand into the renewable energy future. Yesterday, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that the two countries have formed the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center and will ... [more]

Editor's Note: A couple weeks ago we posted a piece by Alex Aylett reporting on Portugal's impressive percentage of renewable electricity supply. Below, we revisit Portugal's renewable energy success and explore how their planning policies helped the... [more]

If you love cruising along the city streets on your two-wheeler or charging along the sidewalks on foot, what better way to take advantage of the outdoors than with this super practical solar bag? Designed by Swiss company Sakku, the sakku.traveler i... [more]

Yesterday's fire on Mariner Energy's Vermilion 380 production platform in the Gulf of Mexico thankfully resulted in neither loss of life nor another big oil spill. However, the timing of this event seems likely to complicate the debate over the dril... [more]

While the reflective and shiny solar panels that researchers have been making thus far look pretty, they're no match for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) recently discovered black silicon solar cell. The scientists at NREL discovere... [more]

Image credit: CosmicRevolutionKSWhen I interviewed my friend Tim Toben of Greenbridge and Pickards Mountain Ecoinstitute, he suggested it was important that we all tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to a wor... [more]

Dallas, August 24, 2010 Scott Deatherage is joining Patton Boggs LLP, strengthening the firm's ability to advise clients on a growing array of environmental, climate change and renewable energy issues. Mr. Deatherage, a well known environmental... [more]

CAMDEN -- One mention of E. coli conjures images of sickness and food poisoning, but the malevolent bacteria may also be the key to the future of renewable energy. Desmond Lun, an associate... ... [more]

MIT's Test Cell Patrick Gillooly, MIT Solar cells are intended to mimic the photosynthesis of plants -- converting light into energy in the most efficient manner possible. But what other characteristics of plants could be handy for the renewable en... [more]