Alternative Energy News

Executives with the Danish firm that invested $200 million in a new enzyme plant in Nebraska praised the U.S. government's continued support for biofuels.

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.

President Barack Obama called Mitt Romney on Wednesday to congratulate him on winning the Republican nomination, just as the Democrat's campaign opened a new critique of Romney by focusing attention on his economic record as governor of Massachusetts.

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

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.

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The Navy launches a supersonic flight test of the "Green Hornet," an F/A-18 Super Hornet strike fighter jet powered by a 50/50 biofuel blend at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, MD, April 22, 2010.

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.

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.

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

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.

German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour - equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity - through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said.

The deal at the Argyll and Bute town is the most complicated and largest under land reform legislation, according to the Scottish Government.

The federal government's $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation could lose 7.5 per cent of the capital it invests on unsuccessful projects, but overall it still aims to make a profit of four per cent a year.

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.

In the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit, the Lebanese government made a pledge to develop renewable energy production capacity to reach 12 percent of the total electricity supply by 2020.

Mysore, May 27- In a bid to promote renewable energy concepts and to create awareness on harnessing solar energy in city, the Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd.