Alternative Energy News

China Longyuan Power Group Corp Ltd, Asia's largest wind power generator, plans to raise up to HK$17.1 billion from a Hong Kong initial public offering , sources close to the deal said on Sunday.

WASHINGTON, U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists and their colleagues have completed a four-year effort to sequence the genome of corn, an achievement expected to speed up development of corn varieties that will help feed the world and meet growing demands for using this important grain crop as a biofuel and animal feed.

Supercomputing technology, according to Al Gore, will help the human race reverse climate change, both by aiding the expansion of renewable energy use and by creating models that help people understand the severity of global warming.

Honeywell today announced a $79-million renewable energy and building retrofit program with Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Ill.

Cars and people are seen passing near wind power turbines in Dali, in the China's southwestern Yunnan province.

East Texas Electric Cooperative Granted $65 Million in Clean Renewable Energy Bonds for Hydroelectric, Biomass Power Projects Co-op Plans to Harness Hydroelectric Power From Lake Livingston to Power 12,000 Homes, and Construct Biomass plant in Woodville, TX NACOGDOCHES, TX - East Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is finding more doors open than closed on Washington's Capitol Hill and at the White House as he pitches the province's carbon capture and shoratage projects as a solution to one of the U.S.'s biggest emissions problems a ' greenhouse gases released from aging coal-fired power plants.

What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London, seat of parliamentary democracy and center of finance? Or perhaps Titusville, Pa.

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The quest for alternative energy is raising fears that too much logging debris such as limbs and bark will be removed from the nation's forests.

WASHINGTON - The same day the House of Representatives passed health-care reform legislation, U.S. Rep.

Chinese clean energy technology companies announced plans to invest in solar & wind manufacturing plants in the U.S.

At a time of budget cuts, Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter's administration last year paid employees and outside contractors $1.1 million to lobby Colorado lawmakers on legislation ranging from renewable energy tax credits to increasing motor vehicle license fees.

Michigan State University will receive $83,806 to measure wind speeds in five areas around the state.

The Wilton Wind Energy Center north of Bismarck, N.D., has doubled in size. Basin Electric Power Cooperative says the last of 33 additional wind turbines began operating in late October, bringing the total number of turbines to 66 and the generating capacity of the wind farm to 99 megawatts.

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.