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Britain will outline its plan on Thursday for meeting its renewable energy targets that environmental groups cautiously welcome but others say is unrealistic.Ministers are expected to call for 4,000 more wind turbines to be built onshore and 3,000 more to be erected at sea as a key part of a strategy to get 15 percent […]

Obama kept the focus on energy at an event with green technology workers at Springs Preserve — a site outside Las Vegas dedicated to sustainability — arguing he offered a different vision for America’s energy future than his Republican rival.
The presumptive Democratic nominee called oil a “a 19th century fossil fuel that is dirty, dwindling, […]

Electric cars could play a major role in the shift to environmentally friendly transport, the government will reveal this week. As part of its long-awaited renewable energy strategy, to be published on Thursday, it will argue that there is massive potential in the UK for plug-in hybrids, for car batteries charged on grid electricity and […]

The Dutch government said it will invest 7.5 billion euros in energy supply between now and 2011 with priority given to renewable energy, energy saving and CO2 reduction in order to reduce the country’s dependency on oil and gas, Dutch newspapers reported on Thursday.
In its energy policy unveiled on Wednesday the government said the country’s […]

How much computing can mankind afford? That is a question the computer and telecoms industries hate to hear. They do not see themselves in the same dirty league as airlines or carmakers, sources of huge amounts of carbon dioxide, but instead as part of the solution. In a pre-emptive strike, a group of technology firms […]

Greenpeace says green renewable energy can be cheaper, cleaner, and create more jobs than fossil fuels.The organisation also says that if the alternative energy is embraced now, it could see the phasing out of coal use by 2030.
In a new report titled Australia’s Energy Revolution, the group says the right recipe would deliver 40 per […]

The United States should focus its energy efforts, in part, on renewable energy sources, Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said Sunday.The North Dakota official said on “Fox News Sunday” that offshore oil production should be increased, and that finding new and renewable sources would be beneficial for the nation.
“I believe we need to do a lot […]

Protesters have rallied outside a major coal conference in Brisbane calling for more Queensland Government support for renewable energy.Macarthur Coal, Queensland Rail and the Queensland Resources Council are attending the Queensland Coal 08 conference at the Stamford Plaza in the city’s CBD to discuss the future of the coal mining industry.
Protester Kristy Walters says greenhouse […]

The wind is free and almost limitless in this huge, coal-dependent country, but harnessing its power for energy is more expensiveWhen glimpsed from afar, the huge wind turbines look impossibly silent. Eleven machines, with 34-meter-long rotor blades, have been erected on the fringe of a large recreational park in Shanghai’s Nanhui district, about 34 kilometers […]

The US and China will announce an agreement on energy and the environment at their Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) meeting next week, a senior Treasury official said today.Ambassador Alan Holmer, the Treasury’s special envoy for China, told reporters the agreement would cover clean air, clean water, clean and efficient production and transmission of electricity, and […]