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The head of wind technology research at Sandia National Laboratories views the wind as fuel.

Wolfgang Bengel, the technical director at German biomass company BMP Biomass Project, saw a business opportunity in solving the breweries' grain waste headache.

The Indiana Office of Energy Development will host a statewide conference on wind farming July 21-22 at the Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis.

Associated Press - July 10, 2009 1:05 PM ET OMAHA, Neb. - The utility that provides electricity to Omaha and other eastern Nebraska communities has agreed to buy 60 megawatts from a wind farm planned in the southeastern corner of the state.

More than any other sector of our economy, farmers are hit hard by the extreme weather exacerbated by global warming -- floods, droughts, heat waves, and storms threaten their livelihood and our food supply.

WASHINGTON - If the Senate doesn't pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen.

Growing demand for green energy in the U.S. has created the potential for significant wind-energy exports from the Maritime provinces to the heavily populated American northeast, says a study released Thursday.

Stirling Energy Systems and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility .

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low-cost and flexible materials.

Below is an auto news article from July 09, 2009 from Automotive.com and PRNewswire.

As the climate heats up, the world is grappling with how to produce cheap energy from renewable sources.

DOVER, Del. - Delmarva Power and Dover city officials are considering an agreement to build a 10-megawatt solar power plant.

A private developer has announced plans to build the world's largest solar power plant of its kind in Washington state.

Wind power in the U.S. appears to have taken a turn for the worse this week with T. Boone Pickens' announcement that he is scrapping plans to build the world's biggest wind farm in Texas.

Pending climate change legislation and regulations for the Renewable Fuel Standard are creating an uncertain environment for investment in advanced biofuels and biobased chemicals.

Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, walks with U.S. President Barack Obama during the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy on Thursday, July 9, 2009.

Call it a solar powered struggle. One man's plan to upgrade his house to clean energy has turned into a big legal battle.

A state Senate committee on Tuesday sidestepped proposed mountain ridge protection rules that wind power advocates said would have crippled a promising new industry.

In 2007, construction workers poured concrete for the base of a Vestas V82 wind tower for Alliant Energya TMs 68-megawatt Cedar Ridge Wind Farm in Fond du Lac County, Wis.

Washington, July 7 : A research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln , US, gives important new information on how plants can change 'nitrogen cycling' to gain nitrogen and how this allows plant species to invade and take over native plants.