Full Coverage: Renewable energy

31.10.2006 from Green Wombat blog:
'I look at the face of renewable energy and it looks back at me with big brown eyes and says, "Moo."'

26.10.2006 from World Changing:
Kinsale, Ireland, is en route for for weaning itself off fossil fuels, thanks to a timetabled strategy. Totnes, UK, could be next.

26.10.2006 from The Greening of Hedgerley Wood blog:
"We have to go back to the idea of buying a part-share in a turbine sited somewhere more suitable," says Peter Armstrong, who had hoped to install a Windsave microgenerator on his home.

24.10.2006 from The Energy Blog:
A UK company has successfully designed, built and tested a 1kW fuel cell stack - the fundamental building block of micropower generation - which can generate sufficient power for the average home.

24.10.2006 from sperboy.com:
Sperboy is a floating wave energy converter based on the 'oscillating water column' principle.

23.10.2006 from Treehugger blog:
This may be the first time a higher education institution has planned to use clean energy as its sole source of power.

23.10.2006 from Treehugger:
Companies are installing solar roofs on their buildings, but the company isn't paying for the installation.

22.10.2006 from sustainablog:
This news is just too cool to pass up, comments Jeff McIntire-Strasburg.

20.10.2006 from Treehugger blog:
Gen 2 solar cells have a rated power output of 315 watts and achieve a 22 percent efficiency.

18.10.2006 from News.com:
"I have exported 20 percent more electricity than I've imported this year," claims Donnachadh McCarthy whose carbon footprint is less than half a ton.

17.10.2006 from Treehugger:
The installation will consist of twelve 5 megawatt turbines 45 km off Borkum Island.

16.10.2006 Dirigentes ecologistas, senadores de la Concertación y de la Alianza Por Chile, directivos de la Asociación Chilena de Municipalidades, asociaciones de profesionales y empresariales, se reunieron para hacer frente al lobby de la industria nuclear

16.10.2006 from ecotivity:
Companies are jumping on the alternative energy bandwagon and some pushy solar energy salesmen are giving renewable energy a bad name.

16.10.2006 Ministria e Mbrojtjes së Mjedisit, Planifikimit dhe Ndërtimit Hapësinorkohët e fundit publikoi një përmbledhje të Studimeve Ambientaliste mbi Paktin e uzinave nukleare të energjisë në Hungari (rreth 100 km nga kufiri kroat, në faqet web www.mzopu.hr). Shoqata ambientaliste Aksioni i Gjelbër beson që ky studim është jo i plotë dhe kërkon që përmirësimi i tij të bëhet sipas informacionit të duhur.

15.10.2006 from GreenLivingUK:
Even with a modest diameter, KiteGen should produce half a gigawatt of energy.

13.10.2006 The Ministry of Environmental Protection, Spatial Planning and Construction recently published the summary of the Environmental Study of Pacs nuclear power-plant in Hungary (located about 100km from Croatian border, on its web-site (www.mzopu.hr). Zelena akcija environmental association believes that the study is incomplete and demands that it is amended with appropriate information.

12.10.2006 Energiatehokkaat hankinnat ovat merkittävä tekijä ilmastonmuutokseen vaikuttamisessa. Ilmastonmuutosta hidastavia valintoja voivat tehdä niin yksittäiset kuluttajat, yritykset kuin julkiset tahot. Mahdollisuudet energiatehokkaisiin hankintoihin ovat kasvaneet, muun muassa koska laitevalikoima on entistä laajempi.

10.10.2006 from monbiot.com:
Renewable micro generation has been grossly overhyped, claims George Monbiot.

06.10.2006 from Treehugger:
A new type of compact wind turbine that sits on the parapets of a building rather than the roof.

04.10.2006 SAN SALVADOR, Oct 4 (IPS) - El Salvador is studying the Kyoto Protocol carefully, not because it has to cut its emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, but because this international agreement opens a way to earn profits and encourages investment for development.