Nicholas Brown
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Smart Energy
El Hierro to be first island powered exclusively by wind & water
El Hierro (one of Spain’s Canary Islands off the coast of Africa) will become the first in the world to be fully powered by wind and water.
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Renewables
Smart Energy
Solar
Toshiba to build, operate solar systems for German apartment buildings
Toshiba to launch new self consumption solar business model in Germany that will see it sell power to residential customers at a lower price than utilities.
Allan Jones discusses ambitious plan to use wind and solar to generate 30% of the city’s power, with the other 70% coming from biomass-fueled trigeneration.
A car which requires almost no maintenance? Tesla's new electric model S may be the answer.
The Australian company Evans Electric has developed an electric car that is literally direct drive.
Georgia Power to buy 525MW of solar, in move supported by the Tea Party and portrayed as a property rights issue pitting private citizens against utilities.
China has surpassed the 3GW milestone for utility-scale solar power production capacity - the first country to do so.
Georgia (the country) is moving closer to constructing the world's biggest solar PV plant after agreeing to help fund the $1.5bn project.
German manufacturer to install regenerative braking energy storage system for a new Oregon light rail line – a first in the US.
How buying an electric vehicle could reduce the payback time of a solar power system by 50 per cent?
