India is facing an acute energy scarcity which is hampering its industrial growth and economic progress. Setting up of new power plants is inevitably dependent on import of highly volatile fossil fuels. Thus, it is essential to tackle the energy crisis through judicious utilization of abundant the renewable energy resources, such as biomass energy, solar [...]

SECOND-generation biofuels based on sugar cane present a sustainable solution to the world’s energy needs, a leading expert claimed last weekend.
Speaking at the Green Power Forum at the Radisson St Helens Hotel in Dublin, Anders Fredriksson of leading Swedish biofuel company Sekab warned delegates that dwindling oil reserves would allow for only one litre of [...]

Barack Obama has been elected as the 44th President of the USA and with his election, Solar Integrated Technologies rose by 30% yesterday after increases of 22% by Renewable Energy Corporation and 16% by the wind turbine maker Vestas. Barack Obama promised to spend $150 billion over the next 10 years developing alternative energy. Promises [...]

All three presidential nominees for the upcoming 2008 US elections are promising that they can end America’s addition to oil through the research and development of green energy technologies. They claim that developing alternative energies will create jobs and turn the economy around, while helping to stop global warming and the national security issues caused [...]

According to the latest “Monthly Energy Review” issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration this week, renewable energy accounted for more than 10% of the domestically-produced energy used in the United States in the first half of 2008.
For the period January 1 to June 30, 2008, the United States consumed 50.673 quadrillion Btus (quads) of [...]

With only 4 weeks until the election, the presidential race is certainly heating up. Both campaigns have made energy policy a priority, and now we’ll have a chance to hear specifics straight from the horse’s (or elephant’s!) mouth.
In a two-part presidential forum series, the Renewable Fuels Association is partnering with the popular rural and agricultural radio [...]