With the sunniest desert on Earth, a windswept coast and limited fossil fuel supplies, northern Chile has become the world’s top market for renewable energy.
The government of President Michelle Bachelet has approved 76 solar and wind projects since taking power March 11. Renewable energy developers are pursuing contracts to deliver electricity to mines run by by companies including Anglo American Plc (AAL) and BHP Billiton Ltd (BHP), which consume a third of the country’s power.
More homes and businesses in England and Wales could be heated by low carbon technologies with a substantial grant from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
Renewable electricity projects will be able to compete for £300million of financial support, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey has announced.
The funding for Contracts for Difference (CFD) scheme is aimed at proving long-term certainty for investors as the UK government looks to reform electricity markets and create a new generation of clean, secure supplies.
Scottish Enterprise will contribute a six-figure sum towards opportunities for ocean renewables innovation in Europe.
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing will make the announcement at the Ocean Energy Conference in Paris today, as part of the first joint call by the Ocean Energy European Research Area Network (ERA-NET) to open up opportunities for ocean renewables innovation.
Brazil’s energy regulator Aneel has set the highest price for wind and solar power at an energy auction this month.
Regulators set a ceiling price and developers bid down the coast they’re willing to deliver electricity, with the lowest winning long-term contracts to sell power.
Subsea engineering and training firm Jee Ltd has been awarded a contract from Scottish Enterprise to develop electrical array cable solutions for tidal energy installations.
The £2.4 million contract is part of a pioneering study for the marine energy industry in Scotland and the company will be involved in developing solutions for locating, securing, protecting and recovering cables.
Solar power might become the world’s largest source of electricity by 2050 as falling costs boost installations, according to the International Energy Agency.
AMEC has been awarded a £336million nuclear waste contract.
The engineering and project management firm will be working with joint venture partners Balfour Beatty and Jacobs Engineering Group to deliver the Sellafield's Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) project in West Cumbria.
Four energy companies are proposing an $8billion renewable energy project that would supply Los Angeles with more than twice the power generated by the Hoover Dam.
The project includes a 2,100-megawatt wind farm in Wyoming, a 525-mile (845-kilometer) power line and a $1.5billion storage facility, the developers said today in a statement. Duke- American Transmission, a joint venture of Duke Energy Corp. and American Transmission Co., Dresser-Rand Group Inc. and two others will propose the project to the Southern California Public Power Authority by early 2015.
Two Swiss pilots plan to fly a solar-powered plane around the earth, pushing human endurance as well as the boundaries of a technology that the aviators say isn’t anywhere near reaching its full potential for industry.
