In the UK, customers looking to purchase green energy could soon be able to choose between gold, silver and bronze tariffs, under proposals set out by UK energy watchdog Ofgem.

The European Commission is inviting all stakeholders - including energy companies, project developers, equipment manufacturers, government services, agricultural and forest industry, environmental NGOs and all other interested stakeholders, including from outside the EU - to help identify the need to develop, at EU level, sustainability criteria for biomass for energy purposes.

Solar roofing specialist Solar Integrated Technologies has launched a new form of solar panel designed to effectively replace metal roofs, amid claims that it already has $8m in orders booked for the new integrated solar technology.

Efforts to reduce the carbon intensity of the Chinese economy appear to be paying off, after official figures just released claimed that energy consumption per unit of GDP fell 3.66 per cent in 2007 compared to the previous year.

TeleCityGroup plans to use sound to measure humidity and air temperature and speed in order to boost energy efficiency in its data centers.

Microsoft entices its employees with incentives to drive down energy use at its data centers, company executives said at a recent conference.

Revisiting a once-abandoned technique, engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have successfully created a sophisticated, yet affordable, method to turn ordinary glass into a high-tech solar concentrator.

US car manufacturer General Motors says it is adding the world's largest rooftop solar power installation to its car assembly plant in Zaragoza, Spain.

RTÉ News has learned that the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) is considering a gas price increase of between 35% and 40%.