Renewable Energy News

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.

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.

New Delhi, Nov 19 : In a major boost for the energy sector, the cabinet Thursday approved the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission that aims to generate 20,000 megawatt of power a year by 2022.

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.

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 .

France risks attracting the ire of its European neighbours when it unveils plans to raise tens of billions of euros in new borrowing just as its EU partners are being urged to begin reining in the stimulus packages that caused deficits and debts to skyrocket.

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.

The world's two biggest polluters are spending some quality time together this week to figure out a joint approach to figuring out a solution to the climate crisis.

Al Gore has made an enormous amount of money by pretending to know something about science.

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

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.

Dallas investor Cappy McGarr said Tuesday his Chinese partners in a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy farm have agreed to build a turbine manufacturing plant in the United States.

China and the U.S., the two biggest energy producers and consumers in the world, face the same challenge in energy development and their cooperation in clean energy is a way to solve current energy problems, aid Liu Qi, deputy head of China's National Energy Administration.

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.

An economic impact study says a proposed wind farm on East River Mountain would give Tazewell County $9.2 million in tax revenues over 20 years.

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