Renewable Energy News

Ontario has released a new long-term energy plan that relies heavily on conservation and renewable energy as keys to reducing cost and environmental impact by 2032, but debate is brewing over the plan's cost impact.

Gov. Jay Inslee tries on his own inscribed lab coat before he tours a UW building where clean-tech research is being conducted.

Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama has opened up an investigation into the financing practices of solar developers like SolarCity.

A federal agency has awarded two Indiana manufacturers more than $15 million in tax credits intended to boost their production of clean energy equipment.

Ben Wootton was just getting ready to bring his company out of bankruptcy last month when word from Washington stopped him in his tracks.

No one likes it when the price of a product they buy goes up, and Georgia Power Co.

The latest "centre of excellence" in Bradford will help students prepare for a career in one of the world's fastest growing industries.

As part of President Obama's executive order last week, which included directing the federal government to triple its use of renewable energy by 2020, Obama instructed agencies to incorporate "Green Button" data further into their energy management practices.

Just take a drive in Michigan's Thumb look at all of the wind turbines and it is clear: our state is working to get its energy needs met by wind and other renewable sources.

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.