With the rising cost of electricity people are starting to look to alternative ways to power their homes. Think about the increased rent you could charge on your investment property in Sydney! The need to provide electricity using more environmentally friendly methods is also becoming more important. Having solar panels for your home (or investment property) is one method of producing alternative power and…

Asia’s first utility scale tidal power plant is in the works off the coast of India. As of now the plant will only have a 50MW generating capacity but, in time, may ultimately reach over 200MW. Atlantis Resources, the London-based group that developed the world’s largest tidal turbine in Scotland, is constructing the project in the Gulf of Kutch. A survey recently performed by the company shows that the gulf has roughly…

First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, recently announced that, with new goals set into motion, the country may be running off “at least” 100 percent renewable energy by the year 2025. “Scotland has unrivalled green energy resources and our new national target to generate 80 percent of electricity needs from renewables by 2020 will be exceeded by delivering current plans for wind, wave and tidal generation,” Salmond said this week at the Scottish…

California-based Yahoo Inc. has opened its first green data center yesterday in Niagara County, New York. The facility, which houses 50,000 servers, will utilize power generated from a local hydroelectric plant. The data center is also efficiently designed to increase ambient air flow and will use only around 1 percent of its energy to cool the building on a daily basis. Yahoo was awarded…

Gottlieb Paludan, a Danish architectural firm, has come up with a revolutionary plan to store green energy which may solve the world energy crisis. The firm has proposed to take the world’s uninhabited islands and turn them into Green Power Islands, in which power would be generated on land through wind or solar — depending upon the climate — and the surrounding water would be used to store the power using pumped hydro. Pumped hydro is an efficient and feasible way…