Oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens's step back from his plan to build the world's largest wind farm in Texas shows how a brutal recession could change the way the United States invests in renewable energy.
China will begin construction of a 120-billion yuan ($17.6 billion) wind power project in about two weeks in Gansu province as part of a major push to boost renewable energy and cut the nation's reliance on coal, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
China's ambitious plan to increase wind power capacity could attract up to $150 billion in investment, but Beijing will have to get serious about revamping regulations and building much needed infrastructure.
The renewable energy mandate in the climate change bill approved by the House of Representatives last week does not go far enough for green power proponents, but the proposed national standard is likely as strong as it will get.
The United States joined the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) on Monday as part of the Obama administration's commitment to developing a new energy policy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.
Norway's government proposed a new law on Friday to develop sea-based wind power as part of a plan to diversify from offshore oil and gas toward renewable energy.
The United States may become the largest market for renewable energy for E.ON, the world's largest utility by sales, within six years, the head of the company's green energy unit told Reuters in an interview.
Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard unveiled Friday the prototype of a solar powered plane he plans to fly around the world to highlight the potential of alternative energy sources.
Maybe the future of climate friendly energy won't have as much to do with wind and solar energy as current booms in those technologies suggest.
Technology to capture carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants and store them underground will be ready by 2015 and could be in wide use in the United States by 2020, according to the top executive at American Electric Power Co Inc.
The head of Microsoft Corp's $9 billion research unit thinks the debate over stopping climate change is being muddied by talk of renewable energy.
A 400-billion euro ($554 billion) project linking solar power produced in the Sahara to energy users in Europe and North Africa is a win-win for both continents and could also promote integration around the Mediterranean, a German minister said.
Investment in renewable energy is down and achieving oil prices that spur green-growth should be a goal for December's Copenhagen conference, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency said on Monday.
Beijing's bid to boost the solar energy sector could draw more than $10 billion in private funding for projects and put China on track to become a leading market for solar equipment in the next three years.
A program to place 500 megawatts of solar photovoltaic panels on commercial rooftops in the Southern California Edison territory was approved unanimously by the California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday.
Southern California Edison, a utility arm of Edison International, said on Wednesday it had signed contracts to buy up to 960 megawatts of power from solar thermal and wind power suppliers.
A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday approved a comprehensive energy package that would require utilities to generate 15 percent of electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind power by 2021.
Renewable energy projects in the western U.S. states may develop quickly after the Obama administration’s Interior and Agriculture departments announced their support for a solid energy system at the Western Governors Association annual meeting on Monday.
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu urged officials from the Americas on Monday to throw their weight behind a new initiative to reduce carbon emissions and make cities in the Western Hemisphere more energy efficient.
U.S. western states got the support from key Obama Administration officials on Monday to speed up the development of a solid renewable energy system in the region, at the Western Governors Association annual meeting at Park City, Utah today.
Solar, wind, geothermal and biomass energy technologies as they are today could technically contribute up to 10 percent of U.S. electricity by 2020 and 20 percent or more by 2035, the National Research Council said in a report Monday.
Investment in renewable energy will likely drop 38 percent worldwide in 2009, an official from the International Energy Agency said on Monday from Bucharest at the Eurelectric annual convention.
