However, the cost of these plastics has been steadily increasing due to rising oil prices, which runs counter to the industry’s effort to reduce costs to make solar energy competitive with conventional fossil fuel. Furthermore, petroleum-based plastics are not environmentally neutral. Bio-based materials can be produced inexpensively, and because they…

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As Deng Hui looks out at a forest of towering turbines dotting his company's wind farm north of Beijing, a cold, drizzly wind howls in his face, but he doesn't mind

Concentrated solar thermal power plants (STP) with thermal energy storage are becoming reality in Spain

eSolar, a U.S. solar thermal power company, last week unveiled its 5-megawatt (MW) Sierra SunTower solar power plant

Billionaire Richard Branson is set to defy the downturn by completing the $400m (£240m) fundraising for his energy venture in renewables within two months

Owing to developing interest in wave energy in South Africa, Garrad Hassan and Partners Limited have been asked to present a short course on this area of their expertise

With the fluctuating price of oil, a finite resource, and concerns over CO2 emissions, many energy companies and developers have turned to utilizing biomass as alternative fuel (biofuel)

Two Prince George bioenergy projects that made B.C. Hydro's first call to produce energy from wood waste have been given the OK by the province's energy regulator

Falling component costs stimulate activity in the line. Evolving solar technologies strengthen supplier capability