Alternative Energy News

DONALD Trump has launched an astonishing attack on First Minister Alex Salmond over the controversial Aberdeen offshore windfarm, accusing him of being "hell bent on destroying Scotland's coastline" with wind power.

MYRTLE BEACH, SC The city of Myrtle Beach is discussing a big move toward using more alternative energy.

Hoku Corporation , a solar energy products and services company, today announced its preliminary financial results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2011, and provided a general update on its business.

The forces at work are enormous and the stakes huge, said Oregon State University scientists in an article published February 10 in the journal Science .

Putting $12 million in hardware and pilot projects in the solar power sector will provide much-needed stimulus to the U.S. economy, an official said.

Supporters of Senate Bill 401 say it is designed to allow customers and firms to use common financing mechanisms to fund new power generation facilities.

Mexico's wind power sector is playing an expanding role in the global development of that renewable energy source, having just achieved the milestone of 1,000 Megawatts of installed generating capacity, a sector leader said Wednesday.

Renewable energy deals are fuelling growth at Pinsent Masons and McGrigors in Manchester as the law firms finalise a merger deal.

City of Blythe Mayor Joseph DeConinck, California Gov. Jerry Brown, Solar Trust of America Chairman and CEO Uwe T. Schmidt, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and 80th District Assemblyman V. Manuel Perez break ground in June 2011 on the Blythe solar power project.

A science panel advising Gov. Beverly Perdue on offshore energy development says oil and gas drilling is unlikely in waters within North Carolina's authority, but the coast has some of the best East Coast locations for wind power.

Internet search engine giant Google takes tops honors among 21 information technology companies for using and advocating clean energy, followed by Cisco and Ericsson, according to a scorecard Thursday by environmental group Greenpeace.

The National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa has called for a renewable energy sector that is socially owned, consisting of "different forms of collective ownership", the organisation said at its five day renewable energy conference in Johannesburg yesterday.

"Two Boys Fighting, Gun, Red Background" by Richard Wilt. The visual arts career retrospective is always a tricky endeavor: A little too broad, and its substance is lost; a little too restrictive, and the life's ... Small windmills with changing colored lights are brightening the downtown Ann Arbor landscape this winter.

ATTORNEY RICHARD Porter explained some of the shortcomings of the city's draft wind turbine siting ordinance during Tuesday's council meeting.

Electricity prices inA WesternA AustraliaA will jump another five per cent next year, and power producer Verve and retailer Synergy will be merged, according to Premier Colin Barnett.

The company said in a brief written statement that the board received a briefing Tuesday about the conditions that have led to recent profit warnings, and as a result, CFO Henrik Noerremark is resigning.

Solar and other renewable energy industry companies account for about 16,000 jobs in Arizona and more than $2 billion in economic impact, according to a new study.

Eight members of the congressional delegation signed a letter Tuesday asking for an extension of the wind energy production tax credit.

The Bonneville Power Administration has proposed to cover half the cost of wind farms' lost revenue when it shuts off their output because there is too much hydropower already being generated in the region.

A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved a private equity firm's $30 million offer for an alternative energy company that failed despite a $39 million government loan.