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Craig Eicher, area manager for Xcel Energy, talks with residents at an open house Wednesday sponsored by Xcel.

President Barack Obama speaks in front of the iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin Germany, Wednesday, June 19, 2013.

Hawaiian Electric Co. is asking the Public Utilities Commission for the authority to negotiate five new solar and wind energy power contracts.

President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term.

Dominion Virginia Power begins accepting online applications tomorrow for the company's Solar Purchase Program , which will help eligible customers offset the cost of adding solar power to their homes and properties while increasing solar generation in Virginia.

In a crowd of several hundred thousand people, all getting crazy under the fierce Tennessee sun at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, staying in contact with friends is extremely important.

Google X project suggests putting tips of wind turbine blades attached to a long tether circulating in space.

The Cape Wind offshore wind project has secured a $200 million investment from a Danish pension fund in what the wind farm's president said Tuesday is a milestone for the long-delayed project.

The proposed solar system to power the Bear Valley water pumps at the booster station would be located in the area of the pump station on the left and the booster station/water tank in the center on the photo.

Now that could be a thing of the past. New York City has teamed up with AT&T to install 25 solar-powered charging stations for public use, available for free in parks and beaches across the five boroughs over the summer.

Starting this fall, people who drive electric vehicles should be able to travel the 138-mile route between Burlington and Montreal without worrying they'll run short of a charge thanks to a planned electric vehicle charging corridor, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and Quebec Premier Pauline Marois announced in Montreal.

Opposition is lining up against a proposed 62-turbine wind energy facility in Somerset and Piscataquis counties in central Maine.

Few religious communities have gone as far in fighting climate change as a church in Queensland, Australia, which has 24 solar panels bolted to the roof in the shape of a Christian cross.

The Atlantic Array, billed as one of the largest green energy projects of its kind in Europe, is to be considered by the Planning Inspectorate.

US mayors pledged Monday to make their communities more resilient to increasingly severe floods, droughts, extreme storms and wildfires, which they said was more efficient and cost-effective than disaster clean-up afterwards.

Due to the fluctuating availability of solar energy, storage solutions are urgently needed.

House appropriators revealed Monday that they plan to cut Energy Department spending on renewable energy in half next year as part of their plan to cope with automatic sequestration cuts in fiscal 2014.

German industrial conglomerate Siemens is shutting down the last of its solar energy businesses after it failed to find a buyer, the company said on Monday.

Opponents of the natural gas drilling method known as fracking are heading to Albany for a rally outside the state Capitol.

New Hampshire is one of only three states with a split legislature: Republicans control the Senate, Democrats the House of Representatives.