Latest Stories in Renewable Energy - Page 16
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500 MW Solar Power Plant Will Be Southwest Africa's Largest
The proposed project in Namibia could even expand to 1 gigawatt, adding wind power capacity.
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ASU Buys Green Energy for Homecoming Game, Continues Commitment to Clean Tech
ASU isn't just covering its parking lots with solar. It's partnering with utilities to buy renewables and spread the word too.
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By 2031, Could Solar Be Main Source of Energy for Many Utilities?
20 years from now, 2011 may look like a turning point for solar power.
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Selling Home Solar Like a Cell Phone Plan (Video)
One innovative company is using the mobile phone pricing system to make solar power cheap enough for the masses.
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India Will Install 3,000 MW Wind Power This Year, Up 39% From 2010
Analysis from HSBC Global Research shows India's strong wind power growth will continue through 2015.
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Solar's "Nasty Secret" is Neither Nasty Nor Secret: Grist Sets the Record Straight
Now a solar industry insider is bashing solar efficiency. But as Grist points out, all is not what it seems.
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How Solar Power is Spreading in Africa and Asia (Video)
While solar competes with fossil fuels in rich countries, in Asia and Africa it is often providing power where none existed before.
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Hardwood Could Become The New Sugar Cane - If Sustainable Development Becomes 'Super Critical'
This post offers an overview of a patented new process being used by Renmatix to achieve physical transformation of sustainably
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Solar Power Should Be Cheaper than Coal, Gas & Nuclear by 2018
You've probably seen the terms 'grid parity' float by on these pages plenty of times in articles about solar and wind power. That's the term that describes what clean energy advocates consider as
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The Solar Industry is Like a Yo-Yo
The solar power industry has had its lot of ups and down, but maybe it's a healthy thing.
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How To Store Wind Power: Pump It Into A Big Underwater Balloon
Tyler Hamilton recently wrote Mad Like Tesla: Underdog Inventors and their Relentless Pursuit of Clean Energy, and while the book may be out, he keeps looking for those crazy ideas that might change
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Hybrid Wind-Solar System to Provide More Constant, Reliable Clean Energy
One of the most common criticisms you hear from clean energy naysayers is that renewables suffer from too much variability. But from the world's first 24/7 solar power plant to large-scale energy storage, that problem is now being
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The U.S. Now Uses More Corn for Fuel Than Feed!
Madness! And I don't mean the British band...The corn ethanol supporters are probably not very familiar with the concept of opportunity cost. Either that, or the subsidies and high corn prices are just to juicy to give up. Only about
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1 Gigawatt New England Offshore Wind Farm Inches Forward - Production Could Begin in 2016
A massive new offshore wind power project, to be located in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, has taken a procedural step forward. Plans for the 1 GW Deepwater Wind Energy Center, being developed by Deepwater Wind, have
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Near Net Zero Reached at Frito-Lay Plant
If only more existing buildings would go "net zero". The Empire State Building has saved 40% in energy costs with a major retrofit. Now a Frito-Lay facility, a
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Millions of Molecules Screened by Volunteers for the Clean Energy Project (You Can Help Too!)
Image: Screen grab Finding the Organic Solar Needle in the Molecule Haystack You don't have to look into a crystal ball to see that solar power has a bright future. But before it can start to really take over a large fraction of our civilization's
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Massive Chinese-Backed Dam on Irrawaddy River Halted by Burma's Government
One day after Brazil's hotly protested Belo Monte dam is halted by court order, another massive hydropower project is halted, on the other side of the world and by a government
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Opposition to Vermont Wind Farm Comes From Former Wildlife Department Commissioner
Some well spoken and well meaning opposition to a wind power project in northeastern Vermont today in the New York Times. At issue is whether the clean electricity that
