The Sidney Frank Foundation has provided a $250,000 grant to analyze how to power the San Francisco’s 950 MW peak energy use with only renewable energy by 2020. The city’s Sunset Reservoir Solar Project, a 5 MW solar photovoltaic system on top …

The $54bn market for green buildings is growing rapidly. According to McGraw Hill Construction, a third of all new non-residential construction is green and non-residential green building developments are expected to triple over the next 5 years. This market is expected to …

InEn Tec, recently honoured as 2010 Top Innovator by the Wall Street Journal, will soon commercialise new technologies that can transform industrial, household and even medical waste into electricity and fuel for transport. Continued investment into companies such as InEn Tec and …

The latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports research led by bioengineer Shoji Takeuchi at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science. Specially-treated frog eggs were injected into a compact robot smell sensor to give it a …

Forty of America’s richest families have committed to the Giving Pledge, an effort by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett have recently contacted between 70 and 80 American billionaires in the last 6 weeks to commit to a Giving Pledge to …

In January 2009, 1,800 laborers lost their jobs in Honduras when two local factories that made shirts for the U.S. sports-apparel giant Nike, Hugger and Vision Tex, suddenly closed their doors and did not pay workers the $2 million in severance and …

Google energy unit has entered into a deal to buy wind power from NextEra Energy Inc for the next 20 years to power its data centers. The deal comes less than three months after the giant Silicon Valley Internet search company invested …

India’s The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has identified Gujarat as one of the states with potential for setting up geothermal power plants. Gujarat’s Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, has announced that a policy is being drafted to promote geothermal energy. Geothermal …

Scotland is surrounded by some of the best wave energy potential in the world, and the country is a world leader in developing wave energy at the prototype level. Currently five of the applications being processed are for hydro energy, while 25 …

The rising popularity of smart energy meters expands consumption data by 1,000 percent or more, and utilities and consumers alike are finding a need to effectively manage this massive volume of data. To this end, Oracle will release Oracle Business Intelligence for …