Metal powder promises new alternative to fossil fuels : Metal powders could be a more handy alternative to fossil fuels than biofuels or hydrogen, researchers have suggested. Tiny metal particles about the size of a fine flour grain could be...

Centrica upgrades mothballed gas power plant : Energy firm Centrica has invested £63m into upgrades of a partially mothballed gas-fired power station in North East Lincolnshire. The South Humber power station, which has been offline since earlier this year, will...

Apple Launches Solar-Powered Store In Singapore : Apple plans to power all its operations in Singapore including a new store using renewable energy, the iPhone maker announced on Sunday. The firm has entered into a partnership with Singapore’s major renewable...

Fully scalable innovative energy harvesting system : Witt Limited, a Plymouth based company, has developed a patented fully scalable innovative energy harvesting system (the WITT), that converts motion on land, sea and from the air into electricity.  Because it can...

New technology could reduce wind energy costs : Engineers from the University of Sheffield have developed a novel technique to predict when bearings inside wind turbines will fail which could make wind energy cheaper. The method, published in the journal...