Swiss power company ABB and IT firm Green recently unveiled a data center expansion in Zurich that uses direct current technology, not the more common...

Nearly half of the world’s largest corporations plan to moderately or significantly increase investment in renewable energy over the next five years, according to research...

Data center service provider  QTS (Quality Technology Services)  is building new solar power installations at its Richmond and Atlanta Metro Data Centers that will provide...

Apple  is doubling the size of its already-huge solar array at its data center in North Carolina, buying another 100 acres of land to house...

Hydrogen  as an energy-storage medium is a time-tested concept in several applications. Siemens Building Technologies corporate account manager Rajiv Sivaraman explained to us how Siemens...

Although hydrogen generally doesn’t come up in a discussion of alternative energy sources, it is a topic relevant to cleaner energy use. So, what’s the...

What would an aircraft carrier look like when it’s covered with an array of solar panels? This photo of the DuPont Fabros Technology data center...

A day after being criticized by Greenpeace for its energy practices, Apple said Greenpeace's estimates for power use at the company's latest data center are...

Apple will use biogas from landfills to generate electricity for its massive data center in North Carolina, the company said in a regulatory filing. The biogas...

Buried in last week’s catfight between Apple and Greenpeace over the energy sourcing for Apple’s new North Carolina data center and how clean it would be, was...

As customer demand for more and more cloud services continues to grow, Microsoft, as well as many other IT companies, will need to aggressively plan...

E-commerce giant eBay(EBAY) unveiled its largest solar installation to date today, situated atop its "Topaz” data center located in South Jordan, Utah. Topaz is eBay’s...

When eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, built its first-ever data center in South Jordan, Utah, it wanted to not only design and build the...

The family firm that controls Denmark's Lego is buying almost a third of a German offshore wind power project in an unusual foray outside the...

Apple released its 2012 Facilities Report today, revealing the company’s data center in North Carolina will be powered by America’s largest end user-owned solar array....

Walmart has shot to third place on the EPA’s rankings of the country’s top green power purchasers, from 15 th  place just last quarter. The ...

Two-thirds of corporate leaders say management attention to and investment in sustainability rose from 2010 to 2011, according to a global study by MIT Sloan...

In his Jan. 24 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama reinstated his commitment to renewable energy. Despite the demise of solar manufacturer Solyndra...

Facebook has announced it will move away from  coal  and power its operations – including datacentres – with clean and renewable  energy . The move...

The "Oracle of Omaha," who made his fortune by betting on technologies that appear underpriced, is now putting his money into solar. The solar industry...

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Dec. 06 /CSRwire/ - IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today announced plans to install solar energy panels on ten additional United...

South Carolina  Electric & Gas and Boeing today officially marked the completion of one of the largest single rooftop solar installations in the United States...

Google is reaping the benefits of its investment in Oklahoma's wind. The Minco II wind farm in Grady and Caddo counties is operational, developer NextEra...

SolarCity Corp., which lost a U.S. loan guarantee in the wake of Solyndra LLC’s bankruptcy, will move forward on a $1 billion solar rooftop project...

Solyndra and other troubled, taxpayer-funded solar electric companies might have momentarily derailed the green movement's progress this year, but a solar hot air collector will...

Major global companies including Motorola Mobility, Deutsche Bank and Bloomberg have produced or have pledged to procure at least 25 percent of their operations’ power...

The City of Austin, Texas, Southern Oregon University, the Bank of Georgetown (DC and MD), Stevens Pass, Diamond Packaging, and Sandy Alexander are the first...

The  California Air Resources Board  (CARB) finalized the state's  cap-and-trade regulation  , which places declining limits on greenhouse gas emissions beginning in 2013. Full story...

Greenhouse gas emissions saw a 6 percent jump in 2010, their largest one-year rise, according to  new data  from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge...

Facebook is planning to create both electricity and hot water with a solar energy system at its new Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. With the capacity...

In a time of tense political debate — often focused on the American solar industry — a new survey may help steer the conversation away...

Solar power and electric cars are an ideal match. Both are tied to the grid and disruptive technologies, which are in an early market stage...

Solar energy may finally get its day in the sun. The high costs that for years made it impractical as a mainstream source of energy...

SunEdison has begun construction on a series of photovoltaic power plants, in partnership with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). In total the...

Corporations and institutions are increasingly turning to voluntary renewable energy certificates (RECs) to meet ambitious clean energy and sustainability goals. RECs, which represent the generation...