Renewable Energy News

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.

Hawaii-Tribune Herald reports Hawaii Electric Light Co. is putting the brakes on the expansion plan after an independent observer criticized the utility for lacking sufficient planning.

Lockhart Power and Pacolet Milliken have announced plans for a landfill gas-to-power renewable energy facility in Union County.

Samsung Electronics is developing a concept that will make use of sunshine, which is an abundant natural resource in Africa, to change and improve the lives of inhabitants of rural communities in Africa.

E.ON, Germany's biggest utility, on Wednesday proposed nearly halving its dividend for 2013 and said it would shut more than a quarter of its power plants in Europe in response to a rise in renewables that has rattled utilities across the continent.

Utility Central Maine Power Co. wants customers who generate some of their own electricity from renewable sources to pay higher monthly service charges, an idea being resisted by renewable energy advocates.

Hawaii will be named as one of the best clean energy states in the nation when it comes to jobs in this sector, according to a national community of business leaders focused on promoting sound environmental policy.

House Republicans are seeking to compel the Obama administration to turn over uncensored, internal documents related to its enforcement of environmental laws at wind farms where eagles and other protected birds have been killed.

January's polar vortex knocked several important coal-fired electricity plants offline, and the Sierra Club says the loss of power shows the need for more wind turbines and energy conservation programs.

Folsom Lake, a hydroelectric reservoir in California's Central Valley, was so dry in January a visitor could walk in its bed.

A new poll of over 1,400 U.S. homeowners concludes that homeowners want choice in how they get their power and control over who provides it.