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By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - It won't be easy to run a national railway on renewable energy like wind, hydro and solar power but that is what Germany's Deutsche Bahn aims to do for one simple reason: it's what consumers want. [More]

By Gerard Wynn LONDON (Reuters) - A widening shale gas revolution is killing the economics of renewable energy, even as falling costs allow wind and solar to overtake fossil fuels in niche areas, say energy executives and analysts.

A new survey determines that China is the most attractive country for renewable energy installations based on the size of its national renewable energy markets, renewable energy infrastructures, and suitability for individual technologies. In a resource-constrained world, any country with the ability to build out a clean energy infrastructure is going to have an advantage. While we'd like to think that American ingenuity and elbow grease would put us in a good position, it increasingly appears that China--land of coal-fired power plants and endless smog--is at the forefront