Google establishes energy subsidiary
"We want to be able to procure more renewable energy as part of our carbon neutrality commitment," she said. The company doesn't have any specific plans to ...
The unintended ripples from the biomass subsidy program
"Is the country not prepared to spend half a billion dollars on half the country's renewable energy resources?" The Agriculture Department, for its part, ...
Environmentalists want a renewable-energy firm to move its solar project to avoid tortoises
Environmentalists say they will urge a renewable-energy developer to relocate a planned solar project in the Mojave Desert to avoid ...
  
NM Utility to Refile Renewable Energy Plan

The agreement will be the basis for a renewable energy plan PNM will file with the state Public Regulation Commission by Jan. 25. ...
Pasadena's ESolar lands 2,000-megawatt deal in China

The region has become a hot spot for renewable energy, with the 2,000-megawatt First Solar project planned 60 miles to the north.Penglai Electric will manage the ESolar power plants' construction and another firm, China Shaanxi Yulin Huayang New Energy Co., will own and operate the first projects. Although China is the world leader in producing photovoltaic panels such as those found on residential rooftops, the ESolar deal is the country's first big venture into large-scale solar thermal power production. ESolar's power plants use fields of mirrors called heliostats to focus the sun's rays on a water-filled receiver that sits atop a slender tower. The intense heat v...
World Future Energy summit 2010

As one of its several founding convictions, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), which is closely associated with the summit, quotes Saudi ...
Solar Industry

by SI Staff on Friday 08 January 2010 A total of 183 projects in 43 states will create tens of thousands of clean energy jobs and encourage the domestic ...
Energy bill debate centers on nuclear provision, jobs creation

A proposal that would relax Wisconsin's ban on nuclear reactors and mandate increasing use of renewable energy began its journey through the Legislature on Thursday, with Gov. Jim Doyle asserting that it could create more than 15,000 jobs. A key element of the bill is a requirement that Wisconsin generate 25% of its power from renewable sources such as wind turbines, bi...
Renewable energy industry waiting for resurgence

Brandon Pollock Clouds of steam roll off warm DDG (dried distiller grain) at the Hawkeye Renewables ethanol plant near Fairbank Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. ...
TheGardenIsland.com . News . Kauai News . Wind, waste-to-energy not among plan’s $1.5B renewables

LIHU'E — Large-scale renewable energy technologies are critical for Kaua'i to achieve sustainability, but proposals to ...