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WITH grand plans to turn the sun-baked Sahara and Californian rooftops into giant solar farms, what part can the UK – and more importantly Teesside – play in the growing sector?

Britain is never going to rival the desert for sun power, but scientists believe the North-east can be a hot spot of manufacturing and technical prowess. The spotlight is on PETEC – the Printable Electronics Technology Centre at Sedgefield – which last month was given £20m from government to continue…

Northern Ireland's Energy Minister Arelene Foster is seeking views on the draft Bioenergy Action Plan

By 2025, 30 per cent of the country's petrol could be provided by bioenergy

Sabah biomass plant will be fuelled by waste from oil palm plantations

India's Emami Biotech will invest $80 million in Ethopia to make biofuel while another Indian company, Anmol Products, has opened a $5 million paper factory, the Ethopian government said on Monday

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore Monday took aim at what he sees as one of the most important energy-efficiency options: using the heat generated when electricity is produced from coal

THE company behind Teesside’s newest biofuels plant yesterday announced plans to create a second site on Tyneside, in a move that could create more than 1,000 jobs

A 145-foot wind turbine blade made its way Friday afternoon onto the campus of the College of Southern Idaho

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…