Renewable Energy News

In this Monday, Aug. 10, 2009, file photo, Center for American Progress Action Fund President & CEO John Podesta speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0, at The Cox Pavillion in Las Vegas.

Ramone van Wyk's wage more than quadrupled when he gave up working on sheep farms in South Africa's arid Northern Cape province and got a job assembling a solar-thermal power plant for Abengoa SA.

Will climate change leave your investment portfolio stranded like a polar bear on melting ice floe? If your pension fund or 401 manager invests in fossil-fuel companies, it just might.

Armando Lopez sorts through tags after rinsing off the cows and equipment at Tucker Dairy outside of Pierce in 2012.

December 10, 2013 FuelCell Energy, Inc. , a global leader in the design, manufacture, operation and service of ultra-clean, efficient and reliable fuel cell power plants, today announced a significant operating milestone with the generation of two billion kilowatt hours of ultra-clean and renewable electricity produced by Direct FuelCell power ... (more)

On Thursday, the president ordered the federal government to almost triple its use of renewable sources for electricity by 2020 [" Obama to feds: Boost renewable power 20 percent ," Online, Dec. 5].

DRAX'S journey into a low carbon future took a step forward yesterday as Energy Secretary Ed Davey opened the specialist biomass handling facilities built for the plant's conversion to biomass boilers.

British Columbia's groundbreaking Clean Energy Act has limited the options available to the province's Crown utility corporation for expanding the power grid, the chairman of an environmental review panel pointed out as critics demanded answers about the utility's plans to build a third hydroelectric dam on the Peace River.

With investment in your business and demand for your product, you have a formula that just about guarantees success.

Many have heard about how cow farts and manure decomposition both produce harmful methane gas, which contributes to global warming pollution.

One of Indiana’s most powerful state agencies will get two new regulators early next year who will make decisions on billions of dollars in utility rates paid by Indiana consumers.

The Oscar-nominated actor announced Monday he's partnering with Venturi Automobiles and will enter a team in the FIA Formula E Championship, which is the first series exclusively for electric cars.

Stevenson High School's Bareq Ibrahaam, left, and Shayan Waseem take a spin Macomb Community College in Warren last week.

Spending thousands of pounds on solar panels for your home, sticking a wind turbine on your roof, or even deciding to try and power your entire business with green energy requires a serious leap of faith.

Energy Partners LLC founder and GVSU professor emeritus Jim Wolter thinks he and partner Ed Brandel have come upon an energy storage device that could be a game changer.

Bob Filner has almost vanished from public view since a defiant resignation speech as San Diego mayor amid widespread allegations that he sexually harassed women.

THE government's announcement that it will offer more funding to offshore wind farms has been welcomed by supporters of the Navitus Bay scheme.

A Boston-based wind power developer has signed a deal to sell power from a planned Maine wind power project to the municipal electric department in Vermont's largest city.

An ambitious plan to construct an offshore wind farm about 14 miles off the coast of South Wales has been abandoned.

U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster wants to require utility companies to produce at least 25 percent of their power from renewable energy sources like wind, solar and biomass by 2025.