Renewable Energy News

A southern Indiana county is weighing a company's proposal to build a five-megawatt solar energy farm on county-owned land.

Since Michelle Nunn is the most covered Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate in the news and Branko Radulovacki one candidate getting attention as well in that he's trying to catch up to the amount of attention Nunn is receiving, a third U.S. Senate Candidate Steen Miles is wasting no time in opening up a campaign headquarters so she can continue to ... (more)

America's clean energy economy created nearly 80,000 green jobs in 2013, benefitting virtually every state across the country even as looming market and policy uncertainty threaten to shrink green growth.

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg speaks during a new conference at Maximos Mansion in Athens on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013.

State Sen. Bob Duff recently received the "Clean Energy Champion" award from the New England Clean Energy Council.

A federal judge on Friday rejected several arguments brought by opponents of a proposed first-in-the-nation offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound but ordered the government to review claims that the Cape Wind project could pose risks to migratory birds and the endangered North Atlantic right whale.

Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo who disclosed this while declaring open, the Nigerian Renewable Energy Private Equity seminar in Abuja, Wednesday, said most of the affected Nigerians are in the rural areas.

A revolutionary University of Colorado Boulder toilet fueled by the sun that is being developed to help some of the 2.5 billion people around the world lacking safe and sustainable sanitation will be unveiled in India this month.

Solar paneling is a popular alternative for many parts of the metro area including Golden, which is now a Solar Friendly Community.

New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership has welcomed a study highlighting the huge potential of offshore renewble energy projects to boost growth and jobs.

Jon Beeson from Severn Trent Water shows us around the new wind turbine that has been erected at the Newthorpe site.

The amount of power utilities could buy from customers with solar or other renewable energy systems would nearly quadruple under a measure given preliminary approval Thursday by the Vermont Senate.

Dawn Weisz, Executive Director of the Marin Energy Authority, chats in front of a solar panel in a hangar at the San Rafael Airport in San Rafael, Calif.

A bill that increases available state money to encourage installation of solar power systems in Iowa has passed a Senate committee and moves forward to the full Senate.

Riverside County supervisors have approved a solar project that would cover 7.5 square miles of desert and provide enough electricity for 225,000 homes.

Virginia is proposing the development of wind turbines 24 miles off the coast to smooth the way for the development of one of the nation's first Atlantic wind farms.

More than two years after the San Onofre nuclear power plant stopped production, California is looking to fill the gap left in its energy grid by the plant that provided enough electricity for 1.4 million homes.

Some counties in Illinois are raising objections to legislation that would give the state Department of Agriculture the authority to regulate the locations of power-generating wind turbines.

Maybe more than any other, this quote from Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett exemplifies both how he invests and how he has built Berkshire.

Tasman Metals may soon merge with Flinders and could be a future European supplier of rare earths and graphite instead of China.