Alternative Energy News

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.

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.

Michigan State University has planted the first of 6 plots of poplar trees as part of an initiative to generate power from renewable sources.

A worker installs solar panels containing photovoltaic cells at the new Solarpark Eggersdorf solar park on September 4, 2012 near Muencheberg, Germany.

A student group called The Windplanners has planned for, negotiated with townspeople and done all the fundraising for the installation of a 100 KW wind turbine.

More than 2,000 homes could be supplied with green power if a renewable energy developer is allowed to open a solar farm near Allington.

Last week Exelon canceled plans to upgrade the Lasalle nuclear plant in Illinois and the Limerick plant in Pennsylvania.

Google plans to corner the wind energy market in New Jersey. It's a first-of-its kind venture that could cost Google and its partners $1.3 billion, but one Google believes fits its core mission: You can make money without doing evil.

A recent Associated Press-WE tv poll found more than 8 in 10 men said they have always wanted to be... The proposed New Jersey Energy Link is an offshore electrical transmission cable, buried under the ocean, linking energy resources and users in northern, central and southern New Jersey.

Solar Impulse, a solar-powered airplane with a wingspan of 208 feet, similar to a Boeing 747, is parked in its inflatable hangar at Lambert-St.

Solar Maine, an alternative energy company, is open for business and many people stopped by their showroom at 1126 Commercial St. in Rockport to help them celebrate with an open house June 8. "We were pretty busy earlier in the day and people keep coming in," said Brendan Black.

Vermont's largest power company is offering public tours this summer of a hotly debate wind power site on a mountain ridge in Lowell.

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Since his days as head of the Solar Energy Research Institute under President Jimmy Carter, Denis Hayes has been pushing to add more renewable energy sources to the country's energy portfolio.

Opponents of plans for wind farms in Normandy near where the D-Day landings took place say the area should be kept untouched.

June 14, 2013 Investorideas.com, an investor research portal specializing in sector research for independent investors, including biotech and renewable energy stocks issues a trading alert for Codexis, Inc. , a developer of engineered enzymes for pharmaceutical, biofuel and chemical production.

The world will have enough wind turbines to generate more than 300 gigawatts of power - the equivalent of 114 nuclear power plants - by the end of the year, industry figures show.