Renewable Energy News

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.

Green or renewable energy firms remain up in arms about the prospect of a fuel price freeze for consumers if people elect Labour the next general election.

Why the Port of Muskegon is getting so much interest at the end of 2013 is due to a convergence of factors that are working for the community's economic development interests, he said.

This week's State Report centers on a new green energy pledge signed by each of New England's governors including Governor Lincoln Chafee.

The last walk that Ronald Westbrook took started around 1 a.m. He slipped unnoticed from his North Georgia home with his two dogs.

The new rule is designed to address environmental consequences that stand in the way of the nation's wind energy rush: the dozens of bald and golden eagles being killed each year by the giant, spinning blades of wind turbines.

Let's see if we can make some sense out of this. Early on in his presidency, Barack Obama made it perfectly clear that the oil-rich lands on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain were off-limits to drilling.

The company that operates an eastern Illinois wind-energy farm where two blades recently broke off a turbine near a school says last month's severe storms may be to blame.