Renewable Energy

Costa Rica has completed the year 2017 with its electricity need for 300 days coming from green energy sources. But as a skeptic would react to this, is a 100% green Costa Rica even possible?

France might take the first place in generating energy by installing the world's largest wind turbine.

Each year, the electricity needs of the world are increasing at an exponential rate. With a greater bevy of electronics made available each day, this is no surprise. The good news is that in U.S., nearly 46.2% of the new electricity generation capacity installed through the current year was renewable.

We have seen many high-tech wind turbines earlier that are considered as one of the main sources of sustainable energy. It's sad but true that, the rotation of the blades of wind turbines often kill birds. Added to that, the noise and vibration of the wind turbines cause headaches, nausea and insomnia among people living nearby; even scramble radio…

In the childhood, almost everyone loved flying kite. NASA is bringing the childhood memories live again with their new airborne wind power system which incorporates the simplest technology of flying kite. Though it is an under-developing project but the test result of the prototype is very promising. The successful implementation will add a new…

German researchers are developing a new generation of solar cells to improve the energy conversion efficiency. A bunch of promising researchers from the Light Technology Institute of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are the pioneers of this new project. The project is supposed to be finished in four years as it is the deal now which aims to…

Although Apple has been working on multiple data centers than run on clean energy, the overall percentage of Apple facilities running on green energy is not too high. And that is precisely why Apple has been criticized in the past for relying heavily on 'dirty energy.' Now, it would seem that the company plans to change this.

IBM is currently developing a cloud based web app with Swiss utility EKZ that will help the drivers to let them use renewable source to recharge their electric vehicles. This app could be very useful to reduce the pressure on power grid as now the main source of recharging of EVs is power grid. The app will also allow schedule recharging during…

Europe's first solar powered train tunnel goes live on Belgian high-speed line and the installation's 16,000 solar panels will be used to provide 50 percent of the energy needed to power nearby Antwerp Central Station and to provide extra juice for both high-speed and traditional trains. The roof of the new station will have 4,400 panels and a…

Solar Impulse completes first solar-powered international flight over Europe into Belgium on Friday on its first international flight with the pilot reporting that everything was running smoothly.After a flight lasting 12 hours 59 minutes, using no fuel and propelled by solar power alone, the Solar Impulse HB-SIA landed safely with pilot André…