Wind, Solar and nuclear power provided more electricity than gas and coal combined to the UK
At 8am today wind, solar and nuclear power generated more electricity than coal and gas for first time ever inside...
Construction is now complete on the largest floating solar farm on Earth
The Chinese Government have announced that the world's largest floating solar farm is complete and has started to produce energy....
Infographic: Electrical Engineers & Climate Change
Why Electrical Engineers Play an Essential Part in Addressing Climate Change CO2 or Carbon Dioxide Emissions are an inevitable result...
How Does Masdar City – the ultimate experiment in sustainable urban living – stack up against Birmingham?
Masdar City has been pitched as a ‘zero carbon’ and ‘zero waste’ city. This brand new city in the United...
Graphene solar panels developed that generates energy when it rains
Whilst Solar Power has made significant steps forwards over the last decade there has always been the problem of what...
Carbon emissions drop in the UK as renewables rise
Provisional figures released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have revealed a 3.4% drop in greenhouse gas...
Swedish researchers develop wood-based glass
Researchers at Sweden's KTH Royal Institute of Technology have developed transparent wood that could in future be used in solar...
Record $286 billion invested in renewables globally in 2015
Developing nations have led the way in investing in renewable energy in 2015, as revealed by a study by the...
Transparent photovoltaic windows could reach the market in three years
Researchers at the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), in collaboration with solar photovoltaic glass manufacturer Polysolar and materials developer Merck,...
London’s Queen Elizabeth II reservoir to hold world’s largest floating solar power plant
A £6 million floating solar array is to open in London this month, and is expected to generate 5.8 million...
Salford University project hopes to create extremely efficient solar cells
Researchers at Salford University have begun a €5 million project to develop perovskite photovoltaic cells, a novel material choice which...
MIT researchers create lightest and thinnest solar cells ever
A team from MIT have developed a solar cell one-fiftieth of the thickness of a human hair, which is so...
Record-breaking £265bn invested in renewable energy last year
More money was invested in renewables in 2015 than was invested in building new fossil fuel power plants, a report...
Up to 3,000 jobs to be created by £2.5bn East Anglia One wind farm
Scottish Power Renewables have announced that they are going ahead with a £2.5bn investment in building a huge wind farm...
Yeast and sugar used to create biorenewable nylon
Nylon has been produced using sugar and genetically engineered yeast by a team of engineers from Iowa State University. Using...
First UK battery energy storage project confirmed
This week, Renewable Energy Systems (RES), a global renewable energy company, announced its first UK contract to build and support...
Shoppers power the Christmas lights
As part of Small Business Saturday, Pavegen Systems, a British technology firm, installed a power generating pavement in Brighton on...
Autumn statement receives support from manufacturers
Manufacturers have welcomed measures announced in the Government’s Autumn Statement, with investment in infrastructure, energy research and plans to amend...