Latest Stories in Renewable Energy - Page 10
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Startup Simplifies Going Solar With Design-Your-Own Online Tool
A New Orleans based startup is creating a free online service to let people easily design a solar energy system and estimate how much energy it will produce.
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Ecotricity Takes Down Non-Renewable Energy with a Goofy and Destructive Video
A video from renewable energy firm Ecotricity shows surprised power plants...
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900-Year Old Church Goes 100% Renewable
An English country church harnesses the power of the heavens to keep its lights on.
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US Solar Installation Doubled in 2011
The solar industry installed 1,885 MW in 2011, reaching total of $8.4 billion.
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Minnesota's Energy Could be 100% Renewable At No Extra Cost
A new report suggests that Minnesota has all the solar and wind energy it needs to go 100% renewable. But it must invest in energy efficiency to do it.
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Listed Victorian Cotton Mill Becomes Rooftop Solar Powerplant
The heritage-status of a building does not mean you can't install cutting edge technology. This cotton mill in Northern England has just gone solar.
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World Wind Power Climbs to New Record in 2011
With its long list of attractive attributes—widespread and abundant, quick to scale, climate-benign, and zero fuel cost—wind power is driving the transition to a new energy economy.
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California's Military Bases Could Generate 30x More Electricity From Solar Power Than They Consume
Even though a tiny amount of the total land occupied by military bases in the state was deemed suitable for solar, it could still generate as much power as seven nuclear power plants.
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Does Storing Solar Power's Electricity as Hot Water Make Sense?
One UK company is offering "24 hour solar" by storing solar-generated electricity as hot water. But does it really make sense?
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Britain's First Solar Town? The Journey Continues
From rooftop panels to a large solar farm, one town is aiming to go 100% renewable. They're not forgetting conservation either.
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Makani Airborne Wind Turbine Gets $3 Million Energy Department Grant
An airborne wind turbine that uses 90% less mass than conventional wind turbines picks up $3 million in funding from the Energy Department's ARPA-E program.
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US Now Has $1.6 Billion Solar Trade Deficit With China
In 2010 the US was a net exporter of solar power products, but the balance dramatically shifted last year. Solar manufacturers say unfair Chinese subsidies are to blame.
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Solar-Powered Micro Grids Change Lives of Indian Villagers
Entrepreneurs build solar micro grids in India to power lights and charge mobile phones, changing the face of energy in rural areas.
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How Airports Are Embracing Solar Power
Gatwick Airport has just installed a modest solar array, with bigger things to follow. Here's Why It Matters.
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Shell Builds Drop-In Biofuels Plant In Texas, While Revving Up Arctic Drilling Plans
Shell's worried about environmental challenges to its Arctic drilling plans, so has launched what amounts to a pre-emptive strike on environmental groups. All while doubling-down on making biofuels that can work with exisiting oil infrastructure.
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Warren Buffett Updates Shareholders on Wind and Solar Power Investments
The super-investor from Omaha is rapidly turning into the king of wind power in the USA, and his recent foray into solar power could be the beginning of something big.
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Hawaii Breaks Ground On Its Biggest Wind Power Project Yet
Once completed, the 30 turbine project will provide electricity to meet 5% of Oahu's needs.
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12.4% of Europe Now Powered by Renewable Energy
A new report shows the European Union is continuing to make rapid progress in clean energy—the sector now employs more than 1 million workers as well.
