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Preston City Council has approved a planning application for an 80 metre test wind turbine at a site on the River Ribble.

BEIJING, Aug 8 (Reuters) – China has hiked its 2015 target for solar power capacity by 40 percent to 21 gigawatts (GW), a government agency said on Wednesday, with falling costs and new regulations boosting growth in the sector. China, the world’s largest exporter of photovoltaic products and home to…

Germany remains top of the list with and accounts for more than 63% of the PV installations worldwide. Having said that, PV production volume is now dominated by manufacturing in Asia where China and Taiwan now account for about 74% of the world supply Photovoltaic (PV) industry revenues reached a…

A new technology that could enable low cost, high efficiency solar cells to be made from virtually any semiconductor material has been developed by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California Berkeley. The technology, they believe, opens the door to the…

GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Limited (“GCL”, “Group”, stock code: 3800.HK) is pleased to announce that, GCL-Poly Investment Limited (“GCL-Poly Investment”), a wholly owned subsidiary of GCL, China Merchants New Energy Limited (“China Merchants New Energy “) and China Technology Development Group Corporation(“China Technology”) signed a strategic cooperative letter of intent (“LOI”)…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 8, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — EMCORE Corporation (Nasdaq:EMKR), a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber optic and solar power markets, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement, subject to closing conditions, to consolidate its terrestrial concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) system…

TÜV Rheinland PTL, North America’s largest solar and photovoltaic (PV) testing company, is announcing that TÜV Rheinland and CURRENTA have developed new testing method based on DIN EN ISO 11925-2 in response to Germany’s plan to include PV modules and solar collectors in the German Building Rules list by the…

Base Load Electricity from Biomass Sequesters Carbon and Powers European Grid at Second Location.

Co-operative Energy, a new entrant to the UK energy supplier market, has sourced 100 per cent of the electricity provided to its customers from renewable generators in its first year of operation.

JOHANNESBURG — The U.S. will offer South Africa up to $2 billion in loans to fund renewable energy ventures involving American companies, a top official said Monday, a potential boon for both the electricity-hungry nation and U.S. business interests. The 18-year loans will be funded out of the U.S. Export-Import…