Renewable Energy News

President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term.

Dominion Virginia Power begins accepting online applications tomorrow for the company's Solar Purchase Program , which will help eligible customers offset the cost of adding solar power to their homes and properties while increasing solar generation in Virginia.

A Danish pension fund has promised to invest $200 million in the Cape Wind energy project providing financing is closed by the end of the year.

In a peaceful demonstration against energy imperialism, members of Navajo Nation demonstrated the power of solar along the Central Arizona Project canal in Scottsdale, using a large mobile solar-powered generator to run pumps that moved water from the canal into nearby buckets and barrels.

The world's largest all-solar ship has been circumnavigating the globe since 2010.

The proposed solar system to power the Bear Valley water pumps at the booster station would be located in the area of the pump station on the left and the booster station/water tank in the center on the photo.

Now that could be a thing of the past. New York City has teamed up with AT&T to install 25 solar-powered charging stations for public use, available for free in parks and beaches across the five boroughs over the summer.

While four drought-related wildfires burn in Colorado destroying a historic tourist attraction and over 500 homes, Congress is doubling down on green house gas pollution that influences the drought.

Opposition is lining up against a proposed 62-turbine wind energy facility in Somerset and Piscataquis counties in central Maine.

Google X project suggests putting tips of wind turbine blades attached to a long tether circulating in space.

The Atlantic Array, billed as one of the largest green energy projects of its kind in Europe, is to be considered by the Planning Inspectorate.

German industrial conglomerate Siemens is shutting down the last of its solar energy businesses after it failed to find a buyer, the company said on Monday.

US mayors pledged Monday to make their communities more resilient to increasingly severe floods, droughts, extreme storms and wildfires, which they said was more efficient and cost-effective than disaster clean-up afterwards.

Due to the fluctuating availability of solar energy, storage solutions are urgently needed.

House appropriators revealed Monday that they plan to cut Energy Department spending on renewable energy in half next year as part of their plan to cope with automatic sequestration cuts in fiscal 2014.

Few religious communities have gone as far in fighting climate change as a church in Queensland, Australia, which has 24 solar panels bolted to the roof in the shape of a Christian cross.

Visit to Banks Penny Hill wind farm site nr. Rotherham by Ed Davey MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

New Hampshire is one of only three states with a split legislature: Republicans control the Senate, Democrats the House of Representatives.

An AGGRESSIVE upstate lawmaker who backs gun rights and Texas-style low taxes and calls Gov. Cuomo a "bully" has emerged as a likely - some say certain - Republican candidate against Cuomo next year, The Post has learned.

A worker installs solar panels containing photovoltaic cells at the new Solarpark Eggersdorf solar park on September 4, 2012 near Muencheberg, Germany.