Germany is more into using solar power these days and so has the solar power usage in the city grown up by 50% this year, say German utilities, who have confirmed in their latest statements about the 50% jump in the solar power production this year over the first nine months of 2011.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is putting her best efforts for the development of a single nationwide strategy for renewable energy as the prices of the energy are rising shockingly higher with every passing day making the workings tougher for all.

A recent report confirmed how Germany's solar power systems market has managed to grow in the month of September, which consequently resulted in supporting Europe's economy. it was on September 1 that 1 gigawatt (GW) of new solar power generating capacity was installed, thereby resulting in the total of new installations in the January-September period to about 6.2 GW.

Germans are now thinking over a way to utilize renewable sources so as to produce energy. And it is therefore as per a new report that the German government is planning to remove nuclear energy maximum by 2022. Since, energy affects one's daily life, including his food, clothes, entertainment and transportation as well as medical treatments.

A recent report showed how despite a bad patch in Germany's photovoltaic sector, country's wind energy sector has managed to remain firm. Having said that things are still not that fine, they used to be at some point of time.

Average gasoline pump price slipped to a six-month low in the United States, amid concerns of slowing economic growth in the country as well as abroad.

According to figures released by the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration, the national average price of regular gasoline shed 2.4 per cent, or 8.1 cents, to $3.356 a gallon on Monday from a week ago.

Oil slipped on the New York Mercantile Exchange on Monday as Greece's unresolved debt crisis and prevailing economic uncertainty in the region discouraged investors.

In an attempt to control the pace of solar installations in Germany - the biggest solar- panel market in the world - as well as to wean the industry off support, the government intends to bring on a further 15 percent cut in feed-in tax incentives for solar installations from 2012.