Overall, global investing totals saw a 28 percent increase compared to 2009, making it the highest year for investment after 2008 ($8.8 billion). The drawback...

SANTA CLARA, CA — A partnership between  Kaiser Permanente  and  Recurrent Energy  has brought solar power to the heathcare organization's  Santa Clara Medical Center ,...

The iconic Empire State Building, undergoing a multi-million dollar green renovation, announced Thursday that it will buy wind power for all its electricity. Full story...

(Reuters) – When Mike Peterson jumped into a colleague’s single turboprop Pilatus and flew over the remote central California valley that he now hopes to...

Fireman's Fund Insurance Company will soon join eBay, Coca-Cola, Walmart and Google as early adopters of Bloom Energy technology with the installation of six of...

Clean-energy technology is expensive and the United States is spending far too little on developing it. The U.S. government must do more to promote cross-border...

California wants 33 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, but hitting that goal might be difficult. To potentially help with the crunch,...

Considering the short term of one to three years, what technology advances may be expected in the CPV sector? What conversion efficiencies might be achieved...

In typical fashion, the U.S. Congress passed a suite of last-minute tax laws last night, including an extension of the Treasury Grant Program (TGP) for...

The 11 th -hour lobbying effort continues from a solar trade group that wants Congress to extend a program created by the stimulus package that...

Looking into the next decade for clean energy deployment gives perspective on where an industry is headed and if Pew Charitable Trusts' recently released report...

The U.S. Senate's tax-bill compromise includes a one-year extension of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's 1603 program, known as the cash-grant program, according to...

I've been watching China's ascent in cleantech for a couple of years. In that time China's potential to leapfrog the U.S. has gone from talk...

The US would have the most to gain percentage-wise from its share of an estimated $2.3 trillion clean energy economy by 2020, a new  Pew...

Most don’t expect a newly Republican-tilted Congress to do much about clean energy or climate change, so states are reasserting their dominance as greentech incubators....

Along the steel-gray Quinebaug River in eastern Connecticut, Duncan Broatch is tinkering with machinery that will keep one of his two hydroelectric plants cranking out...

Last week the largest PV power plant in the U.S. quietly went online in Boulder City, Nevada, about 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas. Sempra...

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)  Green Power Partnership  released its latest list of top green power purchasers. Retaining their places at the top of the...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on November 18 proposed reforms to its rules to lay the foundation for integrating the rapid growth of variable...

Solar energy is more accessible to Americans than ever before. There are federal tax credits, cheaper photovoltaic systems on the market and hefty rebates that...

Over two-dozen Senate Democrats are trying to create 11th-hour political momentum for extending a grant program that supporters say has provided a lifeline to renewable...

OK, so last year’s COP 15 U.N. climate negotiations in Copenhagen  were a bust . No international treaty emerged that made any of the parties...

Benjamin Moore & Co. and Constellation Energy are nearing completion of a new solar power system that is expected to generate 68% of the electricity...

What do manufacturers of skincare products and makeup, paint and coatings, and paper products have in common? They are all using renewable energy to meet...

The states of Georgia and Massachusetts are boosting their solar portfolio with new  installations from USFloors and Spectrum Lighting, respectively. Full Story from Environmental Leader

Connecting the power grid to an ocean of distributed electrical sources poses some special challenges to utilities, which have, until now, been able to tightly...

Sports arenas and stadiums are all about getting the most number of people to spend the maximum amount of money in the shortest amount of...

AltaTerra Research to deliver online briefing on next generation utility-scale inverters with guest speakers Jurgen Krehnke, President of SMA America, and Tom McCalmont of McCalmont...

The newest Walmart Canada fresh and frozen food distribution center is expected to be 60 percent more energy efficient that Walmart's other centers and is...

Wells Fargo and GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Limited have joined forces in a plan to develop more than $100 million in solar projects in the United...

As Tom Zeller Jr. and I  wrote in Monday’s Times , the recession has had a significant effect on renewable energy projects like wind farms....

The stimulus package has been one of the largest injections of government funds into green technology in U.S. history. But along with the benefits that...

Cogenra Solar, a provider of distributed solar cogeneration systems and renewable energy service solutions, has inaugurated a 272 kW solar cogeneration project at the Sonoma...

The California Energy Commission approved on October 28 the 663.5-megawatt (MW) Calico Solar Project in San Bernardino County, the seventh California solar power plant it...

One of the world's most ambitious laws to combat global warming survived a challenge on Tuesday as California voters overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would...