Cheap Electricity for Poor Squeezing Out Solar in India

The villagers of Dharnai in northern India had been living without electricity for more than 30 years when Greenpeace installed a microgrid to supply reliable, low-cost solar power.

US unveils sharp curbs on coal power plants

The Obama administration has proposed strong new rules targeting coal-burning power plants in an effort to curb global warming.

UN urges huge increase in green energy to avert climate disaster

David Cameron's commitment to the green agenda will come under the fiercest scrutiny yet this week when top climate-change experts will warn that only greater use of renewable energy – including windfarms – can prevent a global catastrophe.

Solar lasers, ocean power and volcanoes: unusual energy sources of the future

(CNN) -- Fossil fuels are going to run out. This much we know. No one is entirely certain when they will run out exactly, but we know it will happen eventually.

Renewables industry welcomes reduced subsidies for onshore windfarms

Reduced subsidies for onshore windfarms and solar power announced on Wednesday are "good news", according to a leading renewable energy trade body, because it shows the costs of the technologies are coming down.

'We are fighting for survival,' Pacific islands leader warns

Pacific islanders will challenge world leaders this week to act on climate change, warning that their low-lying atolls are close to becoming uninhabitable because of rising seas and increasingly severe floods, droughts and storm surges.