Renewable Energy News

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.

PLANS to build a massive solar farm in north Essex have been knocked back six months by the discovery of a protected species.

Sen. Marci Francisco, a Lawrence Democrat, said she and her allies will push for changes that would encourage more businesses, homeowners and nonprofit groups to install solar panels and other renewable energy technologies to lower or cancel out their electric bills.

Employers added 203,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate fell to 7 percent, a five-year low.

A former Detroit university professor is pledging $5 million and is hoping it will spark a wildfire of private financial support to protect valuable art from being sold to pay creditors in the city's bankruptcy.

Gov. Jack Markell and environmental officials are joining DuPont Co. officials to tout completion of a solar energy project.

The Obama administration will allow companies to seek authorization to kill and harm bald and golden eagles for up to 30 years without penalty in an effort to balance some of the environmental trade-offs of green energy.

The Muskegon Chronicle reports that Energy Partners founder Jim Wolter and partner Ed Brandel believe that the device developed at the Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center could be a game changer.

Saying the government should lead by example, President Obama has ordered the federal government to nearly triple its use of renewable sources for electricity by 2020.

An alliance of corporations and conservative activists is mobilizing to penalize homeowners who install their own solar panels - casting them as "freeriders" - in a sweeping new offensive against renewable energy , the Guardian has learned.

Supporters of the renewable fuels industry turned out en masse on Thursday, desperate for the U.S. government to change course after last month announcing a plan to lower the amount of biofuels that must be added to the fuel supply in 2014.

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Ratepayers who recoil at the arrival of their hydro bill will pay little heed to the government's new 20-year planning horizon.

Renewable energy producers have staged a protest against a proposed 20% tax on their revenues in front of the Council of Ministers building in Sofia.