Alternative Energy News

THE world's largest hydro-electric wave energy device was switched on to the national grid today.

Hoping to see the USA in your Chevrolet Volt or Nissan Leaf? The tiny Iowa town of Elk Horn will have plenty of electric charging stations and no wait - if you can get there.

There are incentives out there, but to utilize wind power, it will cost you thousands of dollars, at least up front.But if you wait out the investment, homeowners like Gail and Dan Dulgar of Seneca County say you'll get paid back.In April the Dulgars installed a wind turbine in their back yard.

China Investment Corporation , the country's $300 billion sovereign wealth fund, has acquired a 20 per cent stake in a Hong Kong-based new energy company GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd for $710 million.

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Labor is providing $4 million for a study of displaced autoworkers in hopes of identifying opportunities to retrain them for work in alternative energy fields.

The Maryland Public Service Commission has approved an application to build a 50-megawatt wind energy farm atop Backbone Mountain near Oakland in Garrett County .

Gov. Bev Perdue says 18 small North Carolina companies will receive federal stimulus grants to spur development in green technology.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski has asked two state agency leaderds to quickly review whether Oregon's increasingly expensive incentives for renewable energy companies are necessary, especially for wind energy.

An environmental group says North Carolina's future with solar energy can be bright.

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. - A company that makes transformers that convert electricity from renewable energy sources to the grid plans to open its first U.S. plant in Wheat Ridge in January.

Chinese wind-turbine maker A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. and the U.S. Renewable Energy Group have signed a cooperation agreement for the development and construction of a new production and assembly plant in the United States.

Look into Shane Stephens-Romero's crystal ball -- a computer model called STREET -- and find that air quality has significantly improved.

A wind farm capable of generating enough power to light 60,000 average homes will be dedicated this week in northwestern Indiana.

An Airbus A-380 flies past a mosque during an aerobatics performance on the first day of the Dubai Airshow on November 15.

The largest community-owned wind facility on the East Coast and the largest off-shore wind farm in New England is now open for business.

Nov. 17 -- Richard Kelly, chief executive officer of Xcel Energy Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Lindsey Arent about the company's plan to add $1 billion a year in spending for renewable energy.

President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao agreed Tuesday that U.S. and Chinese scientists and engineers will work together to speed the widespread use of electric cars, buildings that need far less energy and coal-fired power plants that don't pump out gases that cause global warming.

Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander has found a Democratic partner in his campaign to grow the country's nuclear power capacity.

Agreement in Copenhagen next month on a new pact to fight climate change will encourage long-term investors to move into firms better placed to cope with a likely and eventual rise in the cost of carbon emissions.

President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao will meet Tuesday to talk privately about issues ranging from North Korea's nuclear threat to currency and trade disputes.