General Motors (GM) received the Corporate Energy Management of the Year Award from the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) yesterday at the association’s annual conference in Atlanta.

Do the overall efficiencies of renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, and geothermal add up in terms of their complete life cycle from materials sourcing, manufacture, running, and decommissioning" Researchers in Greece have carried out a life cycle assessment to find the answer.

Venturi makes a history, or some may equally call it a frontier, in automobile industry with its new Venturi Eclectic car, making it the first vehicle in the history of the automobile, opens up a new era in the field of mobility : reserved for daily driving in urban areas. With functions to produce and renew energy Venturi Eclectic is truly going to be the car of the future to be driven in the city areas.

Renewable does not mean green. That is the claim of Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University in New York. Writing in Inderscience's International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, Ausubel explains that building enough wind farms, damming enough rivers, and growing enough biomass to meet global energy demands will wreck the environment.

Iran is to construct three wind-based power plants in Armenia.

Over four years ago we dreamed of revolutionising some of the most iconic public transportation vehicles in Asia by powering them with renewable energy.

Meeting renewable energy targets to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a $32 billion package of tax breaks for renewable energy that would have been financed mostly by new taxes on major oil companies, The Associated Press reported.

The Estonian Maritime Academy has developed a project to construct an underwater nuclear reactor off the Baltic Sea coast, a local newspaper said Wednesday.

Renewable energy sectors attracting the highest investment levels are wind, solar and biofuels, "reflecting technology maturity, policy incentives and investor appetite," according to according to a trend analysis from the UN Environment Programme, adding that the NEX index (www.tsx.com/en/nex/) of clean energy stocks increased 64% in the 15 months to April.

Climate change worries coupled with high oil prices and increasing government support top a set of drivers fueling soaring rates of investment in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries, according to a trend analysis from the UN Environment Programme.

Leaders of the eight largest industrialized nations - or G-8 - agreed last week in Heilingendamm, Germany, to join forces to make "substantial" - but unspecified - cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. At President Bush's insistence, the G-8 did not impose binding targets for the reductions.