For start-ups that harness the energy of the sun, 2010 looks to be a promising year. In The Wall Street Journal's first survey of venture-backed...

"WE BELIEVE that we can have the same kind of impact on energy that the mobile phone had on communications.” So says K.R. Sridhar, the...

Google announced  last year   that they were working on new technology that would make solar thermal energy cheaper than coal. Just a few months...

TXU Energy , a Texas utility with two million customers, is making it possible for homeowners in the Dallas area to lease or buy rooftop...

Attaching "eco-bling" such as wind turbines or solar panels to buildings will not help the UK cut the  carbon emissions  from buildings fast enough to...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--  Bloom Energy Corporation , a Silicon Valley-based company committed to changing the way people generate and consume energy, announced today...

Microgrids — office parks, college campuses or communities that can generate their own power and disconnect and reconnect from the grid at large at a...

Declining costs and stronger tax and investment incentives are making solar power more cost competitive with the fuels that America's utilities have traditionally used to...

The United States Department of Energy offered a $1.37 billion loan guarantee on Monday to a California company planning to build a large-scale  solar power...

In the aftermath of the climate talks in Copenhagen, it is evident that fundamental change is needed in how we write energy and environmental policy....

More Californians who put solar panels on their roofs could sell the excess electricity they generate under legislation California lawmakers adopted Thursday. Berkeley, would allow...

"The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy." -- President Barack Obama, State of the Union...

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has set two world records for photoelectric conversion efficiency in polycrystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells, achieved by reducing resistive loss in the...

CHICAGO--U.S. researchers have devised a way to make flexible solar cells with silicon wires that use just 1 percent of the material needed to make...

Outlook for commercial and industrial solar water heating markets to be presented in March 24th web conference with SEIA, CALSEIA and AltaTerra Research.  PALO ALTO,...

Samsung, the Japanese South Korean conglomerate best known to Americans for its televisions and cellphones, is jumping into the American solar business. Pacific Gas and...

lean-tech companies raked in just $564.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2009, a 45% plunge from the previous quarter, according to research released Monday....

Funds from the $787 billion  stimulus package  and other federal assistance kept growth in the renewable energy sector strong in 2009, a trend that will...

Areva SA of France predicts the global use of solar-thermal power will grow by about 30-fold this decade, a forecast that spurred the world’s largest...

This could also spur these industries at a time when China is moving swiftly into this area, said Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind...

French nuclear company Areva announced Monday it is acquiring Ausra, a Mountain View-based concentrated solar thermal startup backed by several Silicon Valley venture capitalists. The...

Once "unthinkable” in North America, renewable energy feed-in tariffs are gaining momentum in the U.S. and elsewhere. On March 4 th , author, advocate, and...

Renewable energy is making a gradual presence in this country. But the key question facing U.S. lawmakers is whether to mandate broad portfolio standards or...

President Barack Obama unveiled on February 1 a $28.4 billion budget request for DOE for fiscal year (FY) 2011, including $2.36 billion for the DOE...

CHANGZHOU, China — In other tech revolutions of recent decades, Silicon Valley became the uncontested global leader. The region's ability to innovate its way to...

Silicon Valley earned its name and first great fortune as the cradle of the computer age. Then it built a launching pad for the Internet...

China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of  wind turbines , and...

In his first State of the Union address, US President Barack Obama has highlighted the key role of renewables in the economic development of the...

The  United States Air Force  today announced a partnership with  Fotowatio Renewable Ventures   of San Francisco to lease part of a base for a...

Last week, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) granted final approval to Southern California Edison (SCE) for an ambitious new rooftop solar program. The program...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 25, 2010 – Building on its existing portfolio of renewable energy site installations, Intel Corporation today reported that new contracts are...

Despite a crippling recession and tight credit markets, the American wind power industry grew at a blistering pace in 2009, adding 39 percent more capacity....

Kohl’s, which had occupied the No. 3 spot for purchasing renewable energy on the EPA’s  Green Power Partnership , has vaulted over PepsiCo to occupy...

California regulators approved a $350-million rebate offer today to encourage homes and businesses to install water-heating systems powered by solar energy. The state  Public Utilities...

In what’s being described as the largest deal of its kind in the world,  Samsung C&T and the Ontario government  signed a $6.6 billion investment...