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Siemens AG will strengthen its position in the solar thermal market, paying about $481 million to the London-based investment firm Ecofin Ltd and another major shareholder for a majority stake in Solel Solar Systems Ltd.

Medicine Hat is hoping to become the first city in Canada to use steam produced by solar energy to run its power plant

Announced today that it has entered into a sales agreement with Kerself S.p.A ("Kerself Group"), Italy's leading player in photovoltaic solar plant engineering, development, production, installation and distribution

Over the last decade, the cost of solar generation hardware has dropped by nearly a third

Sharp has released reports of a solar cell conversion efficiency that reaches 35.8% using a triple-junction compound solar cell

Can the whole planet really get 100 percent of its energy from renewables in just two decades?

GLOBAL paper and pulp group Sappi 's efforts to measure, monitor, manage and mitigate its carbon emissions have been recognised by its prominent ranking in the South African Carbon Disclosure Project 2009 Leadership Index

This month, the European Commission published development roadmaps for seven key low carbon technologies. Thy relate to wind, solar, bioenergy, CCS, nuclear technologies, as well as smart grids and energy efficiency, for the period 2010 and 2020

A team of 13 prominent scientists and land-use experts has identified an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules for bioenergy that could, if uncorrected, undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gases by encouraging deforestation

Laurel, Maryland has decided that it is better to turn its garbage into energy than to keep pouring it into landfills