Gore: America can do away with all fossil fuel plants by 2018

Gore says that the United States can produce 100% of its electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources by 2018

Blackstone, Windland in North Sea wind farm project

U.S. investment group and German energy company forms partnership to construct one of the North Sea's largest wind farms

AMEC-led consortium to clean up Sellafield

Treating and cleaning nuclear waste is part and parcel of nuclear power generation; The U.K. government, a proponent of greater reliance on nuclear power, takes steps to deal with legacy waste problems

Alternative fuels for the aviation industry

Rolls-Royce, British Airways collaborate on developing and testing alternative fuels for aviation; testing is expected to be complete by the end of March 2009, after which the results will be analyzed and reported

Largest wind energy farm in France launched

EDF Energies Nouvelles to launch wind farm comprising 22 2.3 MW turbines supplied by German manufacturer Enercon; with a capacity to generate 50.6 MW, it will also be one of the largest in France

New method for generating enzymes will make biofuels cheaper

If we are going to use biofuels as a meaningful alternative to fossil fuels, then enzymes which can break down plant material into usable source of fuel are required in industrial quantities and at a low cost; Aggies researchers offer new method of generating such enzymes

German-Japanese collaboration on carbon dioxide recovery

Mitsubishi, E.ON to test a system which recovers carbon dioxide from flue-gas emissions at a coal-fired power plant in Germany

$30.5 billion U.S. loan guarantees for advanced energy technology

The U.S. Department of Energy issues three solicitations for a total of up to $30.5 billion in loan guarantees for projects that employ advanced energy technologies that avoid, reduce, or sequester air pollutants or greenhouse gas emissions