Rifts are developling in Europe over the future of nuclear energy after the Fukushima meltdown in Japan a year ago. While some nations, including Germany, Italy and Switzerland, have decided to pull out of nuclear energy altogether, others – notably France, Britain and Poland – are pushing ahead with plans to construct new reactors. Martin…

Two Swiss companies have teamed up to build three floating “solar islands”, each with 100 photovoltaic panels, on Lake Neuchâtel this year. Each of the floating islands — made by energy company Viteos and photovoltaics specialist Nolaris — will measure 25 metres in diameter, are to be used as laboratories to test concentrated solar power…

Cleantech investment specialists MTI Partners has announced the completion of a £2 million investment round in Oxford Photovoltaics Limited (OPV), an Oxford University spin-out Materials/Cleantech company commercializing solid-state dye sensitized solar cells for the Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) sector. These new, transparent solar cells can be produced from inexpensive, abundant, nontoxic and non-corrosive materials and…