Renewable Energy News

An array of solar modules on an eco-friendly apartment building at the Brentwood Family Housing Society in Edmonton's Woodcroft neighbourhood.

That was Gov. Terry Branstad in 2011. Branstad said he believed alternative energy development could be the key to bringing to fruition two of the governor's main goals: Bringing 200,000 jobs to Iowa by 2016 and increasing family income by 25 percent.

The term 'high performance home' may conjure images of high-tech computerized houses, but high performance homes aren't futuristic at all.

The Solarize Syracuse campaign says they are working to get people in the city of Syracuse and the towns of Dewitt and Manlius interested in solar energy for residential and commercial locations.

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited the largest vertically integrated photovoltaic module manufacturer in the world, known as "Yingli Solar," today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Yingli Green Energy Japan Corporation , has signed an agreement to supply 32 MWs of multicrystalline PV modules to a large-scale project located in ... (more)

U.S. Department of Agriculture Colorado Farm Service Agency Executive Director Leland Swenson announced in a recent press release that USDA has selected 36 energy facilities in 14 states to accept biomass deliveries supported by Biomass Crop Assistance Program .

The battle over a project proposed by the Richmond Chevron oil refinery is coming down to the wire.

This column has for years warned of the insidious and needless costs to prosperity from governments' quixotic "green" energy mandates.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled a new material this week that provides a highly efficient way to convert sunlight into steam and holds major potential for improving technologies like desalination of water and solar thermal power - all with a four-inch graphite 'sponge.'

A COMMUNITY energy project has started producing power for 600 Hampshire homes after transforming a former gravel pit into a solar farm.

President Barack Obama looks at solar panels at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada in 2009.

Here are 10 we're asking. Check out this story on portclintonnewsherald.com: http://ohne.ws/1rIzLhd Ohio Gov. John Kasich speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas on March 29. The fall campaign for governor pitting Republican incumbent Kasich against Democrat Ed FitzGerald will focus on Ohio's economic position and how that's hit or ... (more)

EDUCATION: St. Andrew High School, Mumbai, India; St. Xavier College, Mumbai, India; University of Bombay, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery; University of Bombay, Master of General Surgery.

Representatives from the 17 University of North Carolina system campuses and several private institutions in the Carolinas on Monday will converge upon Boone for the third annual Appalachian Energy Summit hosted by Appalachian State University.

Virtually every level of government has policies to reduce greenhouse gases by regulating everything from industrial CO2 emissions to cow flatulence.

The group gathered Wednesday to urge officials to vote down a potential surcharge for the Rocky Mountain Power customers.

On windy winter days, Duke Energy senior scientist Greg Aldrich likes to head to the sage-covered hills north of Glenrock to watch golden eagles ride the thermal air currents radiating off the sun-drenched earth.

As Jelani Cobb wrote recently in The New Yorker : "The past year has offered an odd object lesson in historical redundancy.

DW: "Norway derives almost 100 percent of its energy from hydropower. For Germany's planned transition to renewable energy, a close partnership is crucially important, because Norwegian pumped storage power stations could balance out variations in renewable energy sources.

The United States on Friday set new import duties on solar products from China and Taiwan after the Commerce Department found that the solar panels and cells are being sold too cheaply on the U.S. market.