Alternative Energy News

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

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.

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

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.

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.

On Thursday, utility officials said that the Dover Sun Park would supply clean power to more than 1,700 homes and create over 100 jobs during construction.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

ADB to aid mainlanda s wind farm The Asian Development Bank is helping to finance a pioneering private-sector wind farm in Inner Mongolia, officials said on Tuesday.