Alternative Energy News

WASHINGTON: US experts Thursday welcomed China's new goals to reduce the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP in 2020 by 40 to 45 percent compared with the level of 2005.

Canadian ethanol emits 73 percent less greenhouse gas than conventional fuel, taking into consideration all stages of the fuel's production from planting a crop to burning the fuel, a new report prepared for Canada's biofuel industry said on Friday.

An Alameda-based energy storage company will be using a grant from the federal government to help it store green energy being harnessed by the Modesto Irrigation District.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has installed a solar power system at her office to encourage green energy expansion in her power-starved nation.

Chetan Maini, the engineer who pioneered India's first electric car, had his eureka moment two decades ago when he drove a vehicle fuelled by solar power across the blazing Australian outback.

The Cook Inlet Region corporation says it plans to go ahead with the Fire Island wind farm project, despite a split last month with a developer.

One New Jersey lawmaker wants to add a new attraction to amusement parks along the Jersey shore: windmills.

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. and Schneider Power Inc. today announced the signing of a definitive business combination agreement under which Quantum has agreed to acquire in a stock-for-stock exchange all of the outstanding common shares of Schneider Power.

SAGINAW - Saginaw officials are vying with a Texas community to land a California-based solar panel manufacturer that would create 500 new jobs within five years.

North Carolina's Duke Energy said it plans to match a $22 million federal grant to examine the use of batteries to store wind energy from a Texas wind farm.

China has said it is aiming for a big boost in energy efficiency by cutting carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product by up to 45% by 2020.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will attend the Copenhagen conference on climate change next month.

The federal government said Tuesday it is contributing about $30 million to the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line project through the Clean Energy Fund.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 7:46 a.m. A California desert highway landmark is history.

Dozens of Thumb-area residents say their lives have been changed for the worse by noisy, energy-producing wind turbines and recommended that future installations be kept far away from homes.

Energy Secretary Chu announced today that the Department of Energy is awarding more than $27 million for 3 projects in Texas to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems that will help build a smarter, more efficient, more resilient electrical grid.

Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a bill designed to streamline the state's push for renewable energy.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' The University of Oklahoma's plan to power its Norman campus with wind energy was approved Wednesday by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.

Dousing rampant speculation, President Barack Obama has decided to travel to Copenhagen next month and spell out U.S. goals for curbing greenhouse gas emissions at a widely anticipated, high-stakes global climate summit.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar lashed out at the oil and gas industry Tuesday, accusing some industry trade groups of acting like an arm of the Republican Party in criticizing the Obama administration's record on energy production.