Iran is working on regulations to attract investment in renewable energy, according to Elham Aminzadeh, adviser to President Hassan Rouhani, as the nation considers solar, wind and hydro power as ways to diversify from regular crude-based fuel.
Scottish Power Renewables is installing enough new green energy to meet the annual electricity requirements of more than 280,000 homes.
Scottish Power has warned no new framework has been created for windfarms when subsidies come to an end in April next year.
Scottish ministers have written to the UK Business Secretary amid claims indecision is putting at risk more than £1.3billion of funding for large-scale renewable energy products.
Statoil is said to have expressed an interest in New York’s commercial wind lease sale which will launch next month.
Annoyance caused by living next to a noisy wind farm can lead some people to become stressed and lose sleep, a Government review has found.
Sweden is on track to be producing all its energy from renewable sources by 2040.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has raised its forecast for renewable energy growth over the next five years.
Enterprize Energy has launched an offshore windfarm project in the Taiwan Strait.
The UK Government has been accused of displaying “worrying complacency” about the future of the renewable energy industry.
Two Dutch companies have joined forces to help wind farm developers defuse problems with unexploded bombs.
Ministers have granted planning permission for a 19-turbine wind farm in the south of Scotland despite a local council claiming it would “unacceptably harm” the landscape.
A portal has been created to provide new insight on aging renewables and storage assets in the UK and France.
With a population of over 1.3 billion, China is the world’s leading energy consumer, and the vast majority of its electricity comes from domestically mined coal. But the Asian nation is cutting its dependence on fossil fuels and replacing it with renewables at breakneck speed to meet rapidly growing energy demands and address acute air pollution issues.
The UK government miscalculated the costs of renewable-energy support and is likely to overshoot its 7.6 billion-pound ($9.2 billion) annual budget by about a fifth in 2020 and 2021, according to auditors.
The Scottish Government has given the go-ahead to the first windfarm to breach the boundaries of its own wild land map, it has emerged.
The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) said it will start onshore substation works for its £300million Aberdeen windfarm.
US electric car maker Tesla said it plans to start working with Japanese electronics giant Panasonic on solar energy.
North-east residents want work on a controversial windfarm halted – because two councillors breached their code of conduct when they backed it.
Producing half of Scotland’s energy needs using renewable technology by 2030 is an achievable goal, according to a report.
A record amount of Scotland’s heating is being generated by renewables, according to a new report.
A renewable energy firm plans to create one of the world’s first kite power stations in Scotland.
Variable renewables now account for over 30% of total global installed power generation capacity and 23% of total global electricity production. Wind and solar PV have witnessed an explosive annual growth of 23% and 50% respectively in the past ten years.
The Met Office has won a two-year contract with ScottishPower Renewables.
Offshore green-energy projects worth a total of £210billion are an “unmissable opportunity” for Scotland’s oil and gas industry, a flagship centre for UK offshore renewables innovation and research said yesterday.