UK mobile operator Orange in conjunction with renewable energy company GotWind has come up with a novel way to charge a mobile phone in the absence of conventional power sources.

According to a press release by Huawei Technologies, it has worked with China Mobile to successfully complete a solar-and-wind-power and Internet project in China called ‘The Green Roof of the World.’

The CSIRO and energy distributor, SP AustNet, have started a three-month road trial of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), which could one day end up in every Australian driveway, after modification of the car using a US-developed conversion kit at the CSIRO’s laboratories in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton.

BenQ Australia has announced dozens of new products. The company's regional president spoke to iTWire about the new range and BenQ's plans.

With lithium ion battery technologies being advanced, designed and manufactured in Asia, a new US “alliance” of “leading US battery and advanced materials companies” and “one of the country’s largest national laboratories” is being formed to ensure advanced batteries are designed and manufactured in the US, so US companies aren’t dependent on foreigners.

Hosting and disaster recovery provider Interactive has today switched to exclusively green power for its operations, and officially opened its new Melbourne facility.

The man once touted as the next CEO of SAP Shai Agassi has forged agreements between his company, Better Place, Australian utility heavyweight AGL Energy and the financial advisory arm of Macquarie Group, to launch a AUD$1 billion electric car infrastructure project in Australia.

Australia is to host a distributed energy conference in November, organised by the CSIRO. The event, hosted in Sydney, will focus on ways to generate renewable and other sources energy closer to the places that use them.

The process of photosynthesis that goes on in nature all of the time has been copied artificially by an Australian-American team of scientists. The new process that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen could some day make it much less expensive to produce hydrogen as a renewable energy source.

A new report from the UK Renewable Fuels Agency admits that only 19 percent of biofuels meet environmental standards...