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Austria encourages energy-saving appliances
Geothermal training in Iceland
Ups and downs of nuclear power
Energy in Europe
UK to build new nuclear reactors
Geo-pressure creates energy
Fears about nuclear reactor safety in Japan
Australia gets first wave-power plant
Solar panels confuse aquatic insects
Solar cells in Bangkok
Bubble fusion
Portugal hosts first commercial wave-power farm
One of the biggest windmill parks to be built
Hybrid power plants in the making
Climate change and energy systems
Electricity from sewage
Leaf-shaped solar cells bode well
Review on energy sources
Nuclear power – pros and cons
Decision making in the EU, democracy or lobbycracy
Alternative fuels
Salt - a new energy source
Hot rocks to provide energy in Cornwall
Changes in energy-labelling scheme forthcoming
Windmills could be beneficial to crops
China rethinks energy options

 

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June 27, 2012 Seismologists warn Japan against nuclear restart

October 19, 2011  Turning Wood Into Oil, In Two Simple Steps

September 30, 2011 Greenergy Digs Deeper Into Waste To Make Biodiesel  

September 12, 2011 Switch From Coal To Natural Gas No Boon To Climate

July 15, 2011  Carbon Dating Technique To Aid Energy From Waste

May 6, 2011  Exclusive: Renewable Energies To Leap, Costs Fall: U.N.

April 13, 2011                 Does shale gas pollute more than coal?

March 16, 2011    EU Mulls Nuclear-Free Future, Extra Tests On Reactors

January 28, 2011 Brazil Approves Building Of $17 Billion Amazon Power Dam 

October 26, 2010 U.S. Approves World's Biggest Solar Power Project

October 20, 2010 Medieval Italian Town Blows Hot On Wind Power

September 28, 2010 Scotland To Get 100 Pct Green Energy by 2025

September 17, 2010 Analysis: Africa Makes Strides In Green Energy

July 6, 2010 Analysis:Bioethanol Trumps Biodiesel Say Europe's Producers  

July 16, 2010      More Than Half New Power In U.S., EU Is Green: Study

May 12, 2010   Solar Can Provide 22 Percent World's Power By 2050: IEA

April 12, 2010   Eco-Centre Sets Sights On Carbon-Free Britain

March 16, 2010  Hot Water For Chile's Slums, Courtesy Of The Sun

February 12, 2010 A Quarter of U.S. Nuclear Plants Are Leaking a Radioactive Material Linked to Cancer

January 20, 2009 Brazil Opens World's First Ethanol-Fired Power Plant

January 6, 2010 Geothermal sector faces heat of public scrutiny

December 7, 2009  Renewables To Supply One-Third Of China's Energy By 2050  

December 1, 2009 Atlantis To Test World's Biggest Tidal Turbine

December 1, 2009 Sunshine, Sewage To Power Cities Of The Future

November 25, 2009 Norway Opens World's First Osmotic Power Plant

October 26, 2009 Ireland Exiting Peat Power, Faces Hurdles

September 17, 2009 East Africa Should Use Farm Waste For Power: Analyst  

September 10, 2009 "Dramatic" Rise In Renewables Needed For 2 Celsius Goal 

September 2, 2009  EU Starts Stamping Out Energy Guzzling Light Bulbs

August 31, 2009  Watermelon Juice - Next Source of Renewable Energy 

July 27, 2009  Cleaner Shipping Rules To Hit Fuel Oil Market 

June 29, 2009  Norway Proposes Sea-Based Wind Power 

June 9, 2009  ANALYSIS - Britain leads in marine energy race, lags in wind 

May 20, 2009 Green "Gold Rush" Seen In New U.S. Auto Standards

April 23, 2009  Picturesque Paris Rooftops To Sprout Windmills 

March 30, 2009  Chile Miners Look To Tap Desert Geyser Energy

March 16, 2008 Maldives Vows To Be First Carbon-Neutral Nation

March 12, 2008   Aid Needed To Boost World's "Green" Energy

February 18, 2009  Can Hybrid Solar Provide Nonstop Electricity?

February 6, 2009 FACTBOX: Main Renewables Being Developed In Australia 

February 5, 2009  75 Countries Sign onto New Clean Energy Agency 

January 27, 2009  UK Reports Point To Wind, Tide Power Deployment 

January 27, 2009 Spanish Wind Power Sets New Record  

January 12, 2009  Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches  

December 10, 2008 East Africa Set For Geothermal Power Expansion: U.N.

December 9, 2008  EU To Turn Off Energy-Guzzling Light Bulbs 

November 20, 2008 Guatemala Taps Coffee Farms For Hydro Power

November 19, 2008 Rwanda Uses Lake's Methane For Power Generation

November 5, 2008 Coating Helps Solar Panels Soak Up More Of The Sun

October 6, 2008 Berlin Aims to Become Solar Powerhouse

October 1, 2008 Study Eases Fear About Wind Farm Threat to Birds

September 25,2008 Sahara Solar Scheme Could Power Poor West Africa

August 28, 2008 Sugar Cane to Keep More Brazilian Lights Burning

August 28, 2008 CEZ to Build Biggest Onshore Wind Park in Europe

August 22, 2008 Struggling Forestries Bet On Biofuel Boom

August 21, 2008 Australian "Hot Rocks" Offer 26,000 Yrs of Power

August 12, 2008 Kenya Looks to Geothermal Power to Fuel Development

July 18, 2008  Britain Gets First  Taste of Big Tidal Power

June 30, 2008 Geothermal-Rich SE Asia Struggles to Tap Earth's Power

June 23, 2008 Japan to Promote Solar Power for Households - Nikkei 

June 9, 2008 Marine Power Lags Wind by Only 5 Years - Triodos

May 27, 2008   Wind Parks Off Norway Seen New Energy Export

May 13, 2008  Sweet Sorghum Promoted As 'Smart' Biofuel

May 5, 2008 Environmentalists Divided About Burying CO2  

March 20, 2008 Dutch Opt For Coal With Carbon Capture, Not Nuclear

March 5, 2008 California Cows Start Passing Gas To The Grid

February 2, 2008  Qatar eyes solar power to meet surging demand: report

January 23, 2008 Nuclear Power Rebirth Revives Waste Debate

January 11, 2008 Britain Starts New Push for Nuclear Power

January 7, 2008 Japan, US, EU Eye New Energy-Saving Body – Report

December 20, 2007 World Bank Helps Bangladesh Set Up Solar Power

November 5, 2007  Australian Town to Run on Solar Power in 2 Years

June 22, 2007     UK May Have to Do Without Nuclear Power - Darling  

June 4, 2007  Russia Rejects Report of Arctic Nuclear Waste Risk

March 15, 2007  South Korea Turns to Pig Poop for Electric Power 

February 1, 2007  Nuclear Power Faces Stormy Seas Threat

January 25, 2007  Clean Energy 50 Percent of World Supply by 2050, Report Says

January 23, 2007  US Urged to Ramp up Geothermal Power 

January 11, 2007  Study Casts Doubt on Nuclear Waste Storage Safety

January 10, 2007  Radiation degrades nuclear waste-containing materials faster than expected

January 2, 2007 Britain to Close Two Oldest Nuclear Power Stations 

14 November,2006  Spain Makes Solar Panels a Must on New Buildings

26 October, 2006  Australia Faces Blackouts, Builds Major Solar Plant

April 20 2006
Shell launches world's first wind-powered gas field

April 19 2006
Groups release energy 'manifesto'

October 11, 2005
Nuke power firm plans project in Hainan

October 4, 2005
UK Government to Decide Within Year on New Nuclear Build

September 7, 2005
Grass Hailed as Potential Source of Clean Energy

September 6, 2005
China Mulls Raising Renewable Energy Commitment

August 29, 2005
Spain Aims to Double Energy from Renewable Sources

August 19, 2005
Enbridge, Suncor to Build Alberta Wind Power Plant

August 5, 2005
New sources to ease Beijing energy shortage

July 20, 2005
Portugal Pins Energy Hopes on Wind Farm Licenses

July 19, 2005
EU Presses On With Drive to Reduce Energy Use

July 18, 2005
China to Build 10 Nuclear Reactors in East – Paper

July 13, 2005
ASEAN Avoids Tough Issues, Touts Biofuel as Oil Fix

July 7, 2005
FACTBOX - Alternative US Green Energy Sources

July 7, 2005
New tech taps raw sewage to heat homes

June 29, 2005
World's First Nuclear Fusion Reactor to be Built in France

September 6, 2010 Paris Metro Body Heat To Help Warm Building

August 30, 2010 Pond Scum Seen Lucrative In Argentine Biofuels Push

June 29, 2005
Cost of nuclear 'underestimated'

March 10, 2005
Kyoto Protocol Spurs Race to Develop Fuel Cells

March 9, 2005
A coal-dependent future?

February 18, 2005
Boosting Wind-Energy Standards to Mean Significant New Benefits, Group Says



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