World news about “Renewable energies” published by euronews.
Sun-powered plane begins trans-American trip Solar Impulse has completed the first of five legs in its planned crossing of the United States, flying from San Francisco to Phoenix, Arizona in just over… 05/05/2013
Heats, shoots, and leaves – Electricity from living plants Plants could soon provide our electricity. In a small way they already are doing in research laboratories and greenhouses at project Plant-e, a university and… 29/04/2013
Down to earth energy Right under our feet there is a source of clean and efficient energy. La Fabrica del Sol in Barcelona is living proof. An old Catalan building dating back to… 22/04/2013
EU eyes bolder energy policy The EU wants a radically more ambitious energy policy to meet fresh CO2 emissions targets for 2030. The European Commission is looking to set a new… 27/03/2013
‘Africa needs inclusive growth’ – head of African Development BankSpeaking at the Climate Parliament assembly in Brussels, the President of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, has called for further investment in… 21/03/2013
Painting for change Scientists in the UK have been developing specially ‘conductive’ paints to be printed onto building materials, where they can then generate their own… 18/03/2013
Green light for green clusters Everyone has heard of business clusters, where interconnected companies join forces in order to boost performance. The Austrian town of Graz is an example… 08/02/2013
Peugeot- Citroën’s air-powered hybrid To fight against pollution, as well as loud engines, car manufacturers have been working for several years on hybrid cars, cars that switch between using a… 30/01/2013
Sun-powered boat to research Gulf Stream In La Ciotat in the south of France, a very special boat is undergoing maintenance in a shipyard. Pascal Goulpié welcomed euronews aboard the PlanetSolar… 22/01/2013
Blog: PlanetSolar, where the sun blowsYou can’t just stroll into La Ciotat’s naval shipyard. One of France’s top naval building sites up until the 1980s, it is now home to leisure boats… 22/01/2013
Total energy independence in the Alps French engineer and inventor Fabrice André is whizzing up the Alpine road to his refuge on his latest invention: a tricycle that can climb upwards at more… 04/12/2012
Brussels calls for end to energy market distortion In it’s autumn balance sheet, the European Commissioner for Energy gave member states a dressing down and pressed them to make the internal energy market a… 15/11/2012
Chill winds hit Vestas 3,000 jobs to go Danish turbine maker Vestas is to axe 3,000 jobs after poor orders battered third-quarter profits. The sector has been fighting overcapacity, rising costs… 08/11/2012
Blog: Amps in the Alps When it comes to my story from Sarenne, there is a before and an after. Little did I know just how much my one visit there would change the way I see the… 04/11/2012
Testing Wind Turbines at altitude It’s a structure that looks like an ordinary air balloon but in fact at the centre of the structure is a propeller which captures energy from the wind. 300… 27/09/2012
Green light for eco-industries More than three million people across the EU now work in eco-industries, producing nature-friendly goods and services. It is an increasingly competitive… 19/09/2012
Plug your energy leaks Like water from a faulty tap, power leaks from all electronic devices – whether in use or not. The fact is a portion of our energy bill goes down the drain… 05/09/2012
Japanese wind beneath Vestas’ wings? The world’s biggest wind-turbine maker – Denmark’s Vestas – may be about to find help from Japan. Its share price rocketed up on Tuesday in Copenhagen… 28/08/2012
Vestas ‘facing tough year’ to cut more jobs A chill wind is blowing through part of the alternative energy world with Danish wind turbine maker Vestas saying it will cut 1,400 more jobs. It is… 22/08/2012
Morocco makes renewable energy progress while the sun shines With over 300 days of sunshine per year, Ain Beni Mathar in Morocco, near the border with Algeria, was the perfect site to build a thermal and solar hybrid… 31/07/2012
Solar plane completes maiden intercontinental flightA solar-powered plane completed the first intercontinental flight by an aircraft of its type. The Solar Impulse landed in Morocco’s capital Rabat late on… 06/06/2012
Solar plane completes first intercontinental flight A solar energy plane has landed in Morocco completing the world’s first intercontinental flight powered by the sun. The Solar Impulse took off from Madrid in… 06/06/2012
Samsø: where renewable energy rules the roost The tiny, Danish island Samsø, is garnering a rather big reputation as a leading ‘sustainable energy island’. In 1997 the Danish Energy Agency gave it the… 05/06/2012
Jeremy Rifkin and ‘lateral power’ energy Meet the author of a work about staving off our own extinction: Jeremy Rifkin, who advises the European Commission. He is an American economist. He has… 31/05/2012
Go green, get growing The Boutique Hotel Stadthalle in the Austrian capital, Vienna has invested in sustainable resources and saving energy. It has taken advantage of an innovative… 16/05/2012
Aiming to make sustainable energy a reality Sustainable energy was the theme at a summit in Brussels. The Commission has announced a 50 million Euro initiative to support developing countries. The… 16/04/2012
Lights go off for Earth Hour – nocomment Sydney turns off the lights on the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge as Earth Hour 2012 begins its journey around the globe. 01/04/2012
Earth Hour in ChileChilean volunteers hold up candles during Earth Hour in Valparaiso city. Lights started going off around the world on Saturday 31st March in a show of support… 01/04/2012
Sea solution to future energy needs In Dartmouth, in the UK, technicians are working on a sort of “aquatic bicycle pump” which could be the future of renewable energy. In tests, the Searaser has… 05/03/2012
Ultra thin solar film could mean end of phone charger Researchers in a laboratory in France are working on an ultra thin film which can harness the energy of the sun. It works like a solar panel but is just a… 02/02/2012
Malmö shows off its green regeneration Malmö, Scandinavia’s bridge to Europe, is Sweden’s third largest city with 300,000 inhabitants. About a third of them are immigrants. Malmö is a city in… 26/01/2012
Towards a low-carbon Europe In this edition of U-talk Fabián, in Spain, asks: “In a world whose economic model is based on oil consumption, do you as a European ecologist think we can do… 20/01/2012
Shine a light! Indoor solar cells! Scientists are putting the finishing touches to a new way of harvesting electricity from light. Paul Rebhan, the Global Business Development Manager at… 18/01/2012
Portugal’s first family silver sale goes to China Portugal has taken the first step to fulfilling the terms of its EU-IMF bailout, by selling a major chunk of the country’s biggest company to the… 22/12/2011
European energy from fish and tea bags? In Europe at least 20 percent of our food ends up as waste. While new zero-food waste policies are on their way, researchers are imagining ways to turn… 19/12/2011
Sustainability in Singapore “How is Singapore planning for sustainability? We discuss the issue of energy in the cities of tomorrow with Ms Fun Siew Leng, Group Director for Urban… 07/11/2011
Punggol eco-town – Building energy efficiencyToday we headed to the north of Singapore to see some sustainable housing projects- so far north in fact that our mobile phones told us “Welcome to Malaysia”… 01/11/2011
The urban energy enigma Energy. It is generated, consumed, and expelled. Our cities have a constant appetite for it. So how could that kind of consumption of power and fuel ever… 01/11/2011
Smart devices save energy at CEATEC Saving energy was the theme running through this year’s CEATEC Japan, one of Asia’s largest technology exhibitions. 10/10/2011
Paris rolls out electric car experiment Paris has launched a new car service in a bid to reduce traffic chaos and pollution. The Autolib is electric; you pick it up and drop it off at various… 03/10/2011
EU launches biofuel sustainability scheme The EU Commission has announced new voluntary rules on biofuels saying it will raise standards in the sector. Despite concerns over the environmental… 19/07/2011
Germany’s energy revolution How Germany gets it power is about to radically change. The Berlin government’s recent decision to unplug all nuclear power stations is creating a number of… 14/07/2011
Eco loo works wonders with waste Toilets come in all shapes, sizes and designs; from the truly awful to the rather attractive. But they all have one thing in common. And as well as that, they… 04/07/2011
Sun on Impulse gives flightThe Solar Impulse, solar-powered HB-SIA prototype aircraft, takes part in a flying display during the 49th Paris Air Show at the Le Bourget airport… 26/06/2011
First biofuel-powered transatlantic flight Touching down at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, the first ever transatlantic flight powered partially by bio fuel. Operated by Honeywell, the Gulfstream… 22/06/2011
Nanostructures improve solar cells Researchers in Europe are working on how to capture more of the sun’s enormous power and turn turn it into electricity. It’s reckoned that the equivalent of… 31/05/2011
Jatropha ‘green gold’ status unproven The jatropha plant was hailed as ‘green gold’ when it first emerged in the mid 2000s; here was a tree that produced oil-rich seeds that could be used as a… 12/05/2011
Portuguese island to become first CO2-free island In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, a silent green revolution is underway. Graciosa, a small island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, is set to… 02/05/2011
Swedes convert body heat into central heating Some 250,000 passengers travel through Stockholm’s Central Station each day, producing a lot of wasted body heat. Special heat exchangers have therefore… 20/04/2011
Solar panels: cheaper and more efficient Solar panels are becoming an increasingly cheap and efficient way to produce electricity. At a research centre near Frankfurt, scientists are working on an… 14/03/2011
Plug your energy leaksLike water from a faulty tap, power leaks from all electronic devices – whether in use or not. The fact is a portion of our energy bill goes down the drain… 05/09/2012
Samsø: where renewable energy rules the roostThe tiny, Danish island Samsø, is garnering a rather big reputation as a leading ‘sustainable energy island’. In 1997 the Danish Energy Agency gave it the… 04/06/2012
Merkel meets federal heads as Germany tries to go greenDespite a failed attempt to generate the whole country’s energy needs using only renewable sources on Monday, the government is determined to make Germany… 29/05/2012
Germany breaks solar energy recordGermany is said to have set a new world record for the amount of solar energy produced by a nation. According to the Institute of Renewable Energy (IWR)… 27/05/2012
“In 40 years every home, every building will be a power plant” says Jeremy RifkinIn an exclusive interview coming soon on euronews Professor Jeremy Rifkin, special advisor to the European Union, claims that his “3rd Industrial… 18/05/2012
Underwater energy turbine installed in OrkneyThe windswept beauty of the Orkney islands in Scotland is the obvious place to harness renewable energy produced by mother nature. But this time engineers… 17/05/2012
The solar power plant that works the night shiftThe world’s first solar power station that can work all through the night has been officially opened near Seville in southern Spain. More than 2,600 mirrors… 05/10/2011
EU unveils new energy strategy to end gas cutsThe EU has unveiled a new energy strategy it says will help it avoid possible shortages arising from gas disputes between Russia and Ukraine. Europe imports… 08/09/2011
Australia plans new carbon taxAustralia unveiled plans on Sunday to tax the carbon emissions of the nation’s worst pollutors. From next year, 500 companies will pay the equivalent of… 10/07/2011
Japanese politics shaky over reconstructionJapan’s government continues to be shaken by reconstruction criticism. With pressure on Prime Minister Naoto Kan to quit, he has created two new ministry… 28/06/2011
Kan lays down conditions for departureJapan’s beleaguered prime minister has announced a mini cabinet reshuffle, creating two posts to oversee the nuclear crisis and tsunami reconstruction. But he… 28/06/2011
Ukrainian solar plant signals green power driveUkraine has finished building its first solar power station, part of a drive to produce greener energy and reduce the country’s dependence on imported… 24/06/2011
Solar Impulse graces the Paris Air ShowA new era in aviation – the Solar Impulse aircraft arrived after its fuel-free flight making its premier at the world’s largest international air show in… 15/06/2011
Solar plane forced back down to earthTechnical hitches have forced the solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse to cut short a flight from Brussels to Paris. The plane was on its way to the Le… 12/06/2011
Merkel wants nuclear exit by 2022German plans to shut all nuclear reactors by 2022 are being seen as a major U-turn by Chancellor Angela Merkel. In nine months she has gone from supporting… 31/05/2011
Chileans clash over dam projectThere have been violent clashes in Chile between the police and environmentalists opposed to plans to build five new dams in Patagonia. Regulators have… 14/05/2011
Belgium today, tomorrow the world for solar energy planeThe world’s first international solar-powered flight has been completed. The Solar Impulse landed in Belgium after a 12-hour journey from Switzerland. It… 14/05/2011
Sun-powered plane takes offThe world’s first international solar-powered flight is underway. The plane, Solar Impulse took off from Payerne in Switzerland and is expected to land in… 13/05/2011
Merkel looks to future ‘without nuclear power’Germany must make a swift transition from nuclear energy to renewable sources, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday. She met with the heads of Germany’s… 15/04/2011
Croatia’s hidden villageKruscica is where 70-year-old Mate Balenovic once called home. But his village in Croatia’s central Lika region no longer exists. It was swallowed up by a… 30/11/2010
Investors wary on Enel green power IPOInvestors were cautious as Italian utility Enel kicked off the sale of a third of the shares of its renewable energy division – Enel Green Power. Enel… 18/10/2010
Enel Green Power share saleItaly’s largest utility company Enel is reportedly going to sell almost a third of the shares of its Green Power unit. That would raise 3.4 billion euros in… 15/10/2010
Washington Energy SummitMore than 200 energy experts from 15 countries have gathered in Washington to discuss energy policies, in particular, the conflict between the need to… 28/09/2010
UK motorists to receive cash boost to go electricBritish drivers are to receive up to six thousand euros each from next year if they buy a low-carbon car. The UK’s coalition government is to put 50 million… 31/07/2010
Solar Impulse lands after historic 26 hour flightIt is mission accomplished and into the history books after a revolutionary round-the-clock flight by a solar-powered plane. Traditional aviation fuel was… 08/07/2010
Solar Impulse takes wingCould the skies one day be filled with aircraft like the Solar Impulse? The revolutionary solar-powered plane has taken off on its quest to stay airborne… 07/07/2010
Wind of change blows through Germany’s energy suppliesGermany has launched its first offshore wind farm just as scepticism in the country is growing over the effects of climate change. The Alpha Ventus project… 28/04/2010
EU told to act quickly on renewable energySpanish sun and French wind will play primary roles in making European renewable energy plans achievable. That is according to a report just published by the… 13/04/2010
The house that generates energyHere in Denmark, near Aarhus, the world’s first Active House is being tested. Thanks to 50m2 of solar panels, solar collectors and a heat pump, over the… 08/09/2009
Hjortshoj the eco-villageIn Denmark, in the eco-village of Hjortshoj near Aarhus, they are using new technologies and working together to carve out a sustainable life style. It all… 08/09/2009
Sahara desert solution to Europe’s energy problemsIt’s been called complex and ambitious, and has even been compared to the moon landing. But Desertec could soon become a reality. It would be the largest… 15/07/2009
Sweat becomes energy in the NetherlandsThe Club Watt in Rotterdam gives new meaning to an electric atmosphere. They convert the dance movements to electricity, which is used to light up the… 14/07/2009
Sahara solar power plants planMaking money from the sun is the aim of businesses that gathered in Germany on Monday to set up something called the Desertec Industrial Initiative. … 13/07/2009
Hydrogen-power revs up for 2011A new hydrogen-powered car has been unveiled in London. The RiverSimple Urban Car is powered by a fuel cell which which combines hydrogen with oxygen from… 17/06/2009
Wind energyWind could be EU’s ticket to energy sustainability, according to industry representatives. What does the wind sector have going for it? 24/03/2009
