Renewable Energy News

The US Defense Department consumes more energy than any other department or sector in the country, spending around $20 billion annually by some estimates; but ambitious plans to make it the nation's green leader have been swept under the rug over budgetary concerns that smack of campaign politics.

The Obama administration moved Wednesday to impose stiff new tariffs on wind-energy towers made in China, the latest strike in an escalating trade war over clean energy.

In this May 29, 2012 file photo, epublican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov.

The solar power company SunEdison is launching a program to get electricity for the first time to more than two dozen villages in India.

The operators of Germany's electricity grid said Wednesday the country must invest about a 20 billion in new transmission networks over the next decade as the nation abandons nuclear power and uses more renewable energy.

The letter from Transgrid arrived just as they were about to take the kids to the beach for the holidays.

Gov. Rick Snyder says he has serious concerns about a proposed constitutional amendment that would require Michigan utilities to produce 25 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025.

The most potentially influential politician you've probably never heard of, former two-term Maine Gov.

But as technological advances and plummeting costs drive explosive growth - U.S. installed wind capacity has grown sevenfold to nearly 47 gigawatts in the last seven years - real-world experience is shattering long-held assumptions every day.

Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry is set to announce that Albuquerque Sunport will be getting more solar panels to power elevators, lights and offices at the airport.

Renewable energy can be complicated and the reality is, for Virginians, electricity is relatively cheap compared to other states.

Frustrated by China's market barriers, European companies might shift future investment to other economies, a business group said Tuesday, in an unusually pointed warning about a possible backlash over Beijing's trade policies.

A local resident entertains visitors to the Kawah Kamojang geothermal field in West Java.

When it comes to the remote Florida island of No Name Key, the residents of its 43 homes are practically in the midst of a civil war over a debate on green energy.

Solar power company Day4 Energy Inc. announced a plan Monday that will see its senior management acquire the company's assets in exchange for $500,000 and assumption of its liabilities.

The deal at the Argyll and Bute town is the most complicated and largest under land reform legislation, according to the Scottish Government.

The federal government's $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation could lose 7.5 per cent of the capital it invests on unsuccessful projects, but overall it still aims to make a profit of four per cent a year.

Firefighters from the Maine Forest Service, Danforth and Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge were battling a 4- to 5-acre fire on top of Flagstaff Mountain in northern Washington County on Sunday.

In the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit, the Lebanese government made a pledge to develop renewable energy production capacity to reach 12 percent of the total electricity supply by 2020.

Solar Impulse, a Swiss sun-powered aircraft, on Friday finished the first leg of its attempt at an intercontinental flight without using a single drop of fuel.