Our partners from Leonardo Energy are just starting a new Training course on “Concentrated Solar Thermal Power”.
Seville University holds a long tradition on Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSTP) research. Its students become key players at research centers and solar energy departments of companies. One of the “fathers” of CSTP in Spain, Manuel Silva, will be [...]

One of the most ambigious renewable energy projects has had a sound start in Munich this week: Destertec. Within the next three years there are to be concrete plans for  solar thermal plants in North Africa, the initiators, twelve major companies, said. Whilst there is still technical research to be done, the main objective now [...]

China has great renewable resources to explore. So far, much has been done to promote wind power, with some of the world’s largest wind power farms being currently constructed in china. Solar thermal energy is well established and widespread. But, until recently, China’ s policy towards Photo-Voltaic was more reluctant in regard to domestic power [...]

Today 17% of the world’s electricity comes from nuclear power plants. Right now 14 countries are building a total of 6 nuclear power stations, some in an effort to reduce CO-emissions, others because they find it a cheap alternative to other, saver methods to create electricity. France is even making a profit from selling nuclear [...]

Australia’s Government announced plans to build what it says is the world’s largest solar power station with an output of 1000 megawatts (that would be enough to power about 800,000 homes, based on Bloomberg calculations). Australians Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the government will invest A$1.4 billion ($1 billion) with industry in this project which [...]

Chile is by far South America’s most stable economy. As a growing economy, the country requires electricity to power GDP growth, however Chile has been facing energy supply problems since 2004 when Argentina began reducing natural gas supplies. Argentina’s cuts in natural gas (typically during the winter months of June, July and August) have a [...]

Using crops in a unique barter system, a new microfinance project in the Solomon Islands has successfully implemented a solar lighting finance scheme, enabling communities to trade crops for much needed access to light.
A team of renewable energy developers working for SOPAC, the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission, and funded by REEEP, recently completed the [...]

MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to store solar power for use when the sun doesn’t shine. The new process will allow the sun’s energy to be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. Later, the oxygen and hydrogen may be recombined inside a fuel cell, creating carbon-free electricity day or night. [...]