Alternative Energy News

President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term.

Dominion Virginia Power begins accepting online applications tomorrow for the company's Solar Purchase Program , which will help eligible customers offset the cost of adding solar power to their homes and properties while increasing solar generation in Virginia.

In a crowd of several hundred thousand people, all getting crazy under the fierce Tennessee sun at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, staying in contact with friends is extremely important.

In a peaceful demonstration against energy imperialism, members of Navajo Nation demonstrated the power of solar along the Central Arizona Project canal in Scottsdale, using a large mobile solar-powered generator to run pumps that moved water from the canal into nearby buckets and barrels.

The Cape Wind offshore wind project has secured a $200 million investment from a Danish pension fund in what the wind farm's president said Tuesday is a milestone for the long-delayed project.

Starting this fall, people who drive electric vehicles should be able to travel the 138-mile route between Burlington and Montreal without worrying they'll run short of a charge thanks to a planned electric vehicle charging corridor, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and Quebec Premier Pauline Marois announced in Montreal.

Now that could be a thing of the past. New York City has teamed up with AT&T to install 25 solar-powered charging stations for public use, available for free in parks and beaches across the five boroughs over the summer.

Opposition is lining up against a proposed 62-turbine wind energy facility in Somerset and Piscataquis counties in central Maine.

Google X project suggests putting tips of wind turbine blades attached to a long tether circulating in space.

Few religious communities have gone as far in fighting climate change as a church in Queensland, Australia, which has 24 solar panels bolted to the roof in the shape of a Christian cross.

German industrial conglomerate Siemens is shutting down the last of its solar energy businesses after it failed to find a buyer, the company said on Monday.

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.