As a young teen, Louis Palmer dreamed about circling the globe in a solar-powered vehicle.

On Thursday - with his dream all but realized - the 36-year-old Swiss citizen rolled into Vancouver in a three-wheeled, two-seat car that’s powered entirely by electricity from the sun. He’s starting the North American leg of an 18-month tour that’s taking him 50,000 kilometres through 40 countries.

Swiss Teacher Brings His Solar-powered Dream Car to Vancouver

The ground-breaking report, ‘20% Wind Energy by 2030: Increasing Wind Energy’s Contribution to US Electricity Supply’, looks closely at one scenario for reaching 20% wind energy by 2030 and contrasts it with the scenario of no new US wind power capacity.

Wind Power Becoming a Major Contributor to US Electricity Supply

The UK government has committed itself to some ambitious green energy plans. It sounds good, but is it all hot air?

Wind Power: is it a Realistic Option?

The AES Corporation says it has increase its China-based wind power operations through two new agreements with Guohua Energy.

Wind Power Expands in China

Tasmanian wind energy company Roaring 40s expects the Federal Government’s renewable energy mission to lead to strong job growth in the state.

Wind-led Job Growth Expected

The energy surcharge bomb shell dropped this week after months of anticipation as the price of oil continued to spiral to reach unprecedented levels. Government this week raised the energy surcharge from 50 per cent to 95 per cent while absorbing a further twenty per cent of the initially proposed 116 per cent surcharge level. In reality the amount absorbed by government will still be funded through taxes collected and the millions which will be used to subsidise the surcharge could have been earmarked for other purposes such as a national project or tax reform.

Alternative Energy Solutions

A Utah company is planning to build New Mexico’s first commercial geothermal electric generation plant on 2,500 acres in Hidalgo County near Lordsburg that will produce enough power for about 5,500 homes.

Geothermal Electric Plant Planned in Nm

Raser Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Arca: RZ) today announced that it has begun taking delivery of the UTC Power, a United Technologies Company, geothermal power generating units ordered for the first commercial scale geothermal power plant to be built in the state of New Mexico. The New Mexico site is a well studied, known geothermal resource which has provided direct use geothermal fluids to a local greenhouse operation for many years.

Unit’s Designated for New Mexico Geothermal Power Plant

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has launched a $100 million fund to invest in infrastructure in the world’s poorest countries. The ‘InfraVentures’ fund will make its first investment in geothermal power in Djibouti.

Ifc Infrastructure Fund to Invest in African Geothermal Power

LAST week saw the launch of the UK Government’s Renewable Energy Strategy – with the aim of 15 per cent of our electricity coming from renewables by 2020.

Scotland Must Put More of It’s Energy Into Renewables