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The solar power company SunEdison is launching a program to get electricity for the first time to more than two dozen villages in India.

The Obama administration moved Wednesday to impose stiff new tariffs on wind-energy towers made in China, the latest strike in an escalating trade war over clean energy.

In this May 29, 2012 file photo, epublican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov.

The operators of Germany's electricity grid said Wednesday the country must invest about a 20 billion in new transmission networks over the next decade as the nation abandons nuclear power and uses more renewable energy.

Yingli Green Energy Holding Co, one of China's largest solar equipment makers, posted a first-quarter loss even as strong demand in Germany and the United States lifted its shipments from the end of 2011.

Spanish renewable-energy companies that once got Europe's biggest subsidies are deserting the nation after the government shut off aid, pushing project developers and equipment-makers to work abroad or perish.

Gov. Rick Snyder says he has serious concerns about a proposed constitutional amendment that would require Michigan utilities to produce 25 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025.

But as technological advances and plummeting costs drive explosive growth - U.S. installed wind capacity has grown sevenfold to nearly 47 gigawatts in the last seven years - real-world experience is shattering long-held assumptions every day.

The most potentially influential politician you've probably never heard of, former two-term Maine Gov.

Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry is set to announce that Albuquerque Sunport will be getting more solar panels to power elevators, lights and offices at the airport.

Computer Repair owner Joshua Payne works on a software he designed to control and manage solar power systems at his store on Piney Forest Road.

When it comes to the remote Florida island of No Name Key, the residents of its 43 homes are practically in the midst of a civil war over a debate on green energy.

Frustrated by China's market barriers, European companies might shift future investment to other economies, a business group said Tuesday, in an unusually pointed warning about a possible backlash over Beijing's trade policies.

This week the German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour - literally half of the energy used through the key midday hours in the country.

Solar power company Day4 Energy Inc. announced a plan Monday that will see its senior management acquire the company's assets in exchange for $500,000 and assumption of its liabilities.

A local resident entertains visitors to the Kawah Kamojang geothermal field in West Java.

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The Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe brought the inherent safety concerns of current nuclear technology to the forefront of the world's attention.

This May 2, 2012 photo shows Daniel Shani on the University of Chicago campus. In June 2012, at 25, Shani graduates with an MBA from the university's Booth School of Business.

You see, the exotics - especially wind and solar - are so very beautiful in the eyes of the green community.