A UN-backed study has reported that the building of new  renewable energy  plants has overtaken  fossil fuel  power plants in Europe and the US. The...

The California attorney general’s office on Wednesday sued Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over actions by the mortgage finance companies that have derailed a popular...

In any given year, some days stand out as touchstones for an industry, and for clean tech. Tuesday, June 29 was one of them. As...

Several key trends in the U.S. electric utility industry are making it essential for U.S. utilities to provide cleaner, low-carbon electricity while enabling customers to...

Like most of my colleagues at HelioPower, I joined the solar industry because of my concern for our environment. As a recreational outdoorsman, I appreciate...

In recent weeks the clean power financing program known as PACE, (Property Assessed Clean Energy), has been falling to pieces.  Earlier this month   mortgage...

The federal Department of Energy on Monday awarded $92 million for 43 clean-energy research projects across the country, including 11 projects in California that will...

The global clean tech and renewable energy industry enjoyed a solid second quarter to the year as levels of venture capital investment, project financing and...

German lawmakers have today (July 9) approved the easing of solar subsidy cuts for three months, lessening the blow by three percentage points until the...

Toronto, Canada --Last October the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) launched its microFIT Program and since that time, more than 16,000 applications have been submitted, with...

It took just 15 minutes for Pacific Power's share of Oregon's new solar power incentive program to fill up the first round. "People compare it...

On June 25, we joined 500 executives at Stanford University for the 2010 Silicon Valley Energy Summit. The CEO of a large California utility company,...

Distributed architecture is a leap forward for inverter technology with continued advances expected to drive lower installation and maintenance costs. Solar power is poised to...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced Tuesday that the Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE program, backed by the Department of Energy and the Obama...

Italy is this week expected to become the latest European country to move forward with reforms to its renewable energy subsidy regime, after it emerged...

The keynote address to begin the  Renewable Energy Finance Forum  (REFF) held in New York last month felt a lot like the U.S.A's performance in...

Shares in Spain's largest wind and solar energy firms climbed yesterday, after the renewable industry reached a deal with the Spanish government that should result...

President Barack Obama, under pressure to spur job growth, said on Saturday two solar energy companies will get nearly $2 billion in U.S. loan guarantees...

If you don't work for a public company, then chances are you aren't paying much attention to additional new corporate governance rules that went into...

Sharp Solar , one of the oldest names in the youthful PV industry, has been on a roll of late. The one-time top-dog PV company...

World leaders at this weekend's G20 Summit in Toronto reiterated their pledge to phase out "inefficient" fossil fuel subsidies, after attempts to water down the...

Conglomerate GE says today it will double its investment in research and development of greentech products — its so-called Ecomagination line — to $10 billion...

In order to build a sustainable market for solar energy in California, the right state polices must be in place to correctly incentivize wide scale...

Produced at its solar cell plant in the Philippines, SunPower has had a full-scale solar cell verified by NREL (U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable...

Renewable energy is taking off in many places around the world. Growth rates of 30-50% in wind and solar have been the norm for the...

For the last few years, much of the innovation around solar technology has been aimed at generating more electricity from sunlight. But a new crop...

An analysis released this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirms that a comprehensive solution to our dependence on oil is affordable and...

Improving the efficiency of solar cells is critical for increased deployment and the subsequent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions , and companies and research institutions...

There is an ongoing debate among solar renewable energy credit (SREC) policymakers about how long solar energy generators should be able to collect money for...

In an industry dominated by  First Solar ,  SunPowe r  and  NanoSolar , thin-film solar panel maker  MiaSole   seems to have been toiling away...

WASHINGTON — The United States is badly lagging in basic research on new forms of energy, deepening the nation’s dependence on dirty fuels and crippling...

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- With oil continuing to wash ashore in the Gulf of Mexico, 11 senators and 35 representatives are demanding a ban or...

San Francisco and other counties and cities have suspended energy efficiency financing programs because of lending guidance issued by the country’s largest home loan purchasers....

As the oil keeps gushing out into the Gulf of Mexico, the urgency to move to a clean tech economy mounts – just as it...

"> I had the chance to sit down with Dr. Amory Lovins, chief scientist and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, to talk about how...