Fusion power may be a more realistic prospect than you think. As Motherboard reports, researchers at the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have discovered that a new magnetic field setup more than tripled the energy output of the fusion reaction hotspot in experiments, "approaching" the level required for self-sustaining ignition in plasmas. The field was particularly effective at trapping heat within the hotspot, boosting the energy yield.

A ‘certificate of origin’ scheme could counter concerns about renewables supply chains, says Clean Energy Council

An ambitious project to harness the power of the sun from space to supply power on Earth is being proposed by scientists. The European Space Agency (ESA) - which includes the UK - is discussing plans to create a solar farm in orbit at a two-day conference in Paris.

"If it works...it’s a sea change event."

An amount of USD 4.2 billion has been saved by India in fuel costs through solar power generation in the first half of 2022, and 19.4 million tonnes of coal which would have further stressed an already strained domestic supply, news agency PTI quoted a report released on Thursday. The new report was released by the energy think tank Ember, the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

France just approved legislation requiring all parking lots, current and future, to be covered in solar panels.

This is due to the Ukraine War, research claims

Scientists in Switzerland have designed transparent solar panels that could make windows generate electricity.

A budding technology could allow electric cars to provide power to the grid when it's needed most, helping utilities deal with heatwaves.

Removing CO2 directly from the air requires almost as many joules as those produced by burning the fossil fuel in the first place, writes Leigh Collins

World leaders are once again preparing to meet next month to discuss how they’ll address climate change. Known as COP27, the two-week conference in Egypt will gather governments, large corporations, and nonprofit groups, representing billions of people and billions of dollars, all aiming to hash out how best to keep the planet from warming up too much.

The world’s green spotlight is tilting towards the Middle East as Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) prepare to host the next two major world summits on climate change. Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh resort will be the site of the next United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27), which begins on 6 November, and the UAE’s oil giant Abu Dhabi will host COP28 in 2023.

As the UN steps up calls to make the switch to renewable energy to fight the global climate emergency, Portugal is among the first European Union countries to abandon coal.

Olaf Scholz's three-party coalition has wrangled over nuclear power but the German chancellor decided that the plants should stay running through winter. Germany is scrambling to reorganize its energy mix amid gas cuts.

Process involves using electrostatic separation on PV panels to collect valuable materials, reducing them to 2-3% of original weight

In 2014, two solar energy groups published a report finding that only about 3,750 U.S. schools — out of a total of roughly 130,000 — were generating electricity from solar panels. But that number is on the rise. According to the fourth edition of the “Brighter Future” report, released last week by the clean energy nonprofit Generation180, the number of U.S. schools using solar power has more than doubled in the last seven years, reaching roughly 8,400 by the end of 2021.

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction - but Europe might one day be powered by giant floating solar panels orbiting the planet. The European Space Agency (ESA) has unveiled a plan to harvest the sun’s energy in space and beam it back down to Earth.

A utility-scale renewable energy plant using wind and solar combined with battery storage opened last week, a US first, with the potential of powering 100,000 homes with clean, reliable energy. The project gives us a glimpse into the future as the US shifts from fossil fuels to clean energy sources.

Using perovskite with existing solar cell technologies can increase their energy conversion efficiencies. It is only about scaling it up reliably now