A new product launched by a Turkish solar company called Solimpeks offers an ingenious solution to homeowners who would like to benefit from own solar power. The company’s Volther is a hybrid photovoltaic-solar thermal collector, which produces electricity and hot water simultaneously. (more…)

E. ON is the largest investor-owned energy services providers in the world. It is based in Dusseldorf, Germany and operates in more than 30 countries. It has been very involved in providing clean, better energy for all their customers and for the world. Here are just a few of the highlights (more…)

Metso is a Finland-based global supplier of technology and services helping customers process natural resources and recycle materials into valuable products. Metso’s customers operate in the mining, construction, power, oil and gas, recycling and pulp and paper industries. Metso is a leading global (more…)

According to a new study by the Carbon Trust up to 240 GW of capacity of marine energy could be installed worldwide by 2050. Out of these, 75 percent could be coming from wave, and the remainder by tidal energy.

The total market for both wave and tidal energies (more…)

Greek officials are calling for an ambitious expansion of solar power generation in their sunny country, hoping that large-scale production of renewable energy will generate significant revenues and green jobs for the country’s troubled economy.

Greek Energy Minister George Papaconstantinou (more…)

During the first half of 2011, Germany for the first time generated more than 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, a new report says.

While the country’s total electricity demand remained stable during the first six months of 2011, the share generated by renewable sources increased from (more…)

I recently got the chance to speak with the vehicle-to-grid technology (V2G) firm Nuvve, which is currently working on a pilot project in Denmark demonstrating V2G. Pike Research has previously covered Nuvve’s projects in Denmark from a purely technological perspective. What is most interesting about Nuvve’s (more…)

European chemical manufacturers are covertly venting huge quantities of the powerful super greenhouse gas HFC-23, according to a study by the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA). The report, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says that (more…)

The energy efficiency sector has had a healthy injection of venture capital over the past 18 months. In Q2, investment in energy efficiency accounted for almost a quarter of cleantech venture capital commitments (Cleantech Group).

It is an increasingly appealing sector for VCs in the (more…)

A new study finds that animal and plant species are responding to the effects of climate change at a rate two to three times faster than previously believed.

Researchers at the University of York in the UK found that in more than 2,000 instances, species are changing their habitats to adapt to warming (more…)