Renewable Energy News

Imagine a future where solar panels speed off the presses, like newspaper. Australian scientists have brought us one step closer to that reality.

A legal battle between a suburban Dallas neighborhood association and a homeowner seeking to install solar panels on his house exposed problems with a 2011 Texas law.

HIS political attacks were famously compared by former county council leader Nick Clarke to being "savaged by a cotton bud" although it is unlikely that accounted for the surprise defeat of Councillor Kilian Bourke as Lib Dem leader.

Earlier this month, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick announced that his state reached the goal of 250 megawatts of installed solar energy capacity.

Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve.

A 173-foot-long blade broke off a wind turbine and fell to the ground at a 315-megawatt wind farm that supplies electricity near El Centro, it was reported today.

At first glance, it appears that the Florence Avenue branch of U.S. Bank has just installed carports for its customers.

Clovis Unified flipped the switch Friday on phase 1 of its new 5.9-megawatt solar power system.

Minnesota has taken a first step in outlining the next big leap forward in the state's sustainable energy future.

Contemporary Energy's Solar Kettle uses the sun's rays to boil water on the go. The lightweight thermos-like device is perfect for camping or picnics, allowing users to make hot beverages or sterilize water without electricity.

THE PUBLIC are being asked to comment on a project to build a renewable energy park in Puriton - which could create thousands of jobs.

High cost of going green: Britain's green energy 'folly' will cost every family an extra 600 a year by 2020, a report warned last night Britain's green energy 'folly' will cost every family an extra 600 a year by 2020, a report warned last night.

Antony is an automotive obsessive: Whether it drives, sits there looking pretty or intrigues from afar, he'll talk and write about it.

Windsor on Wednesday became the first city to join the Sonoma Clean Power Authority, created as an alternative to PG&E to provide a greener product at competitive, if not cheaper rates.

As the region looks for more effective ways to integrate wind and other renewable energy sources, the Bonneville Power Administration and its customers have agreed to settle the portion of BPA's rate case that defines charges for balancing services, or generation inputs, that maintain a constant balance of the energy produced and energy consumed.

An initiative that would allow utilities to count all hydroelectric power toward renewable energy requirements was approved this week for signature gathering .

Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy 's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have reported the first fully integrated nanosystem for artificial photosynthesis.

NASA's In-Space Validation of Earth Science Technologies program has funded a team led by Lars Dyrud, a scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., to develop a miniature instrument that will measure the amount of solar energy reflected by Earth and the amount emitted to space as infrared radiation or heat.

Green Orchard, the home Paul Archer designed for his parents outside Bristol, England, sows the seeds of an active retirement.

Wind turbines line the crest of a hill in Canada. New studies question just how much wind farms can grow before they encounter a limiting wind-shadow effect.