A new breakthrough could allow sunshine to become one of the most important sources of clean renewable energy, it has been claimed. Up to now solar power has been a "Cinderella" energy source because storing the sun's energy is so expensive and ineff

UK clean energy provider Green Energy UK has today launched two new tariffs designed to allow customers to distinguish between genuinely zero carbon energy and low carbon energy from biomass or combined heat and power (CHP) generators. The company sa

Renewable energy may make up only a small proportion of the UK's overall electricity supply, but it is growing. According to the government's own figures, renewable energy made up 4.55 per cent of all electricity generated in the UK in 2006, which is

One of the UK's biggest offshore wind farms could be built off the East Yorkshire coast under plans submitted by energy giant E.ON.  The Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm would consist of up to 83 turbines in the North Sea, five miles (8km) off Spur

A Welsh village is to have its collective energy consumption monitored for two years in the first move of its kind in Britain.  St Athan, in the Vale of Glamorgan, will participate in a pioneering long-term energy efficiency project with supplier Sw