Special report. Conclusion: how much renewable electricity capacity was installed worldwide at the end of 2010, and which technologies were the most popular?
12 January 2012
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Accolades like the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy raise the profile of community energy schemes in the developing world. We look at a few of those that impressed the judges this year.
09 December 2011
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September/October: Our monthly column, written by the Energy Industries Council, reports on project development in the renewable energy marketplace.
01 December 2011
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July/August 2011: This second monthly column, written by the ceo of the Energy Industries Council, reports on the latest new project developments in the global renewable energy marketplace.
01 July 2011
June 2011: Our new column, written by the Energy Industries Council (EIC), reports on the latest renewable energy projects and key project developments – from Brazil to Zambia.
01 June 2011
Photovoltaics (PV) is the dominant solar technology with more than 12 GW installed in 2010 alone, but PV (not to mention wind power) has inherent limitations of intermittency. This gives CSP a distinct advantage, and current advances in heat transfer and storage could increase the implementation of CSP as a significant renewable resource.
13 April 2011
Part one: The collector. At the heart of every solar thermal system is a collector, which traps heat by absorbing sunlight. Matthias Rommel, Peter Kovács and Korbinian Kramer look at the various designs of collectors on the market today, and discuss performance evaluation, state-of-the-art technology, as well as potential future developments.
07 April 2011
Investors are cautious about investing in solar as prices are falling on increased output from booming manufacturing countries like China. Mark Halper reported from the Paris Cleantech Forum this summer.
06 December 2010
The renewable energy industry had been warned to expect bad things from George Osborne’s first Spending Review, reports Carl Thomson. So now the dust has settled, what next?
02 November 2010
This week saw the very sad death of Dr Hermann Scheer, in many ways the father figure of German renewable energy, and a hugely influential figure worldwide. He was a fighter who seemed to relish his battles, and an inspirational, irreplaceable character.
18 October 2010