Renewable Energy News

The country's renewable energy chief stopped in town Friday, delivering an optimistic forecast of the future that included cheaper batteries and LED lights, cars with double the gas mileage and affordable solar projects.

Close to 40 high school students in the Arlington School District gathered at Weston High School July 30 to present ideas on how the district could decrease its carbon footprint by utilizing renewable energy resources.

The gambling equipment maker is being bought by rival Scientific Games Corp. in a deal worth $5.1 billion, including debt.

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It was just past midnight when Indian police hauled two Greenpeace India activists out of their sleep and arrested them this week as a crackdown on protests against a planned coal mine in the Mahan forest intensified.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully today updated Pacific leaders and post Forum dialogue partners on the progress being made to implement renewable energy projects agreed to at the 2013 Pacific Energy Summit.

The City of Huntsville and University of Alabama Huntsville announced a new partnership Thursday to address clean energy issues and bring more jobs to the Tennessee Valley.

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The plan also calls for some incentive and loan programs to attract new employers to the state and to help entrepreneurs with start-ups of their own.

The statistics from the Department of Energy and Climate Change show a 30% increase in the power coming from renewables in 2013, bringing the share of electricity from sources such as wind, hydropower and biomass up to 14.9%.

A new dye-sensitized solar cell absorbs a broad range of visible and infrared wavelengths.

Eleven biofuel plants dot the vast expanse of western and central Kansas, where farm fields stretch to the horizon and corn and sorghum are the backbone of the rural economy.

New York state has reached an agreement to buy the rest of the land needed for a solar-energy manufacturing complex planned for Buffalo.

Eric Fitzer, center, of the Governor's Office of Energy Policy, told a House committee that a bill that would open public land to renewable energy development could make Arizona the 'solar capital of the world' if the state could take advantage of available land.

Sparsholt College, in Westley Lane, wants to build the 74 metre turbine to teach students to the technology behind sustainable energy and reduce its carbon footprint.

You can now fit a wind or solar farm into your portfolio, even if your portfolio isn't exactly vast.

Featured speakers at the Appalachian Energy Summit keyed in on this year's theme, "disruption and innovation," emphasizing the dramatic shift in culture and convention that is necessary to transform to a clean energy economy and sustainable society.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the funding Tuesday. It's available to businesses and groups looking to build wind farms, fuel cells or biomass generators or upgrade small to medium-sized hydroelectric facilities.