Energy

A simple but effective solar kit is helping to bring light to homes in the less-industrialised world without the choking side-effects of kerosene lamps

The Church of England has dealt a significant blow to Vedanta Resources plc by pulling £3.75 million worth of investments from the company on ethical grounds

Wind and solar technology made up over half of Europe’s new electricity generating capacity in 2009, as the number of new coal and nuclear facilities fell

Environmental groups say the Belo Monte dam project would devastate a large area of the Amazon rainforest and threaten the survival of indigenous peoples

Campaign groups believe the payments will be too low to encourage significant numbers of people to install small scale renewable energy in their homes and communities

Local residents say they have been ‘insulted’ rather than ‘consulted’ over Government plans for new nuclear power stations

In an economic climate where village shops are closing, woodsman Ben Law has helped his village open a new shop with a difference

Immediate moratorium on all activity by oil and gas industries would help safeguard the local community and ecosystem as well as reduce potential carbon emissions

More than a quarter of the total US grain crop was turned into ethanol to fuel cars last year, according to a new analysis

Banks are pulling out of the carbon-offsetting market after Copenhagen failed to reach agreement on emissions targets

Government spending watchdog says it is still not convinced new nuclear power stations will be built without public subsidies

Cars are evil, right? But what if they ran on hydrogen, did 300 miles per gallon, were leased rather than owned, and were produced under an open source business model...

None of the various technofixes on offer alter the fact that humanity has to learn to stop living on the last drops of cheap energy, and to start living within its means

Building offshore wind farms is great. Inaccurately quoting or massaging the figures that support them is not

Isle of Eigg pursuit of self-sufficiency through renewable energy projects has been rewarded with share of UK-wide award

Royal Dutch Shell group's dissident shareholders will press for a review of its tar sands project in Canada, at the oil firm's annual meeting in May

The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) has accused the Government of producing energy strategies that are 'carbon blind'

Will the latest announcement of nine proposals for offshore wind projects and a promised £100bn worth of investment lead to new jobs in the UK or elsewhere?

Europe's first electricity grid dedicated to renewable power will become a political reality this month, as nine countries formally draw up plans to link their clean energy projects around the North Sea

New consultation to look at whether the next generation of biofuels will be more environmentally-sustainable than current food crop varieties

Two power plants in Cornwall could be producing renewable heat and electricity for the local community as early as 2013

Carbon capture sounds like a fantastical idea: dig up fossil fuels, burn them, then return the captured CO2 underground. But the hurdles that stand in its way are formidable

Public can borrow electricity monitors for up to 3 weeks in schemes under way throughout the UK

For environmentalists, tar sands are a 'climate crime'; for peak oil experts, they can never do the job of ordinary crude. But neither critique tells the full story: that exploiting tar sands may worsen both the climate crisis, and the energy crisis...