VICTORVILLE, CALIFORNIA - Disturbance of archaeological sites is a possibility during the construction of the city's massive new hybrid gas-solar power plant north of the airport. At a recent meeting ...

Electricity generation is a process that involves the production of electrical power through various sources. In the United States, power production from utility-scale generators was about 4.1 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Jay Inslee (D-WA) introduced the Marine Renewable Energy Promotion Act of 2009 in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senator Lisa Murkowski introduced companion ...

DANBURY, CONNECTICUT - FuelCell Energy, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high efficiency ultra-clean power plants using a variety of fuels for commercial, industrial and utility customers, announced ...

ROSEMEAD, CALIFORNIA - Southern California Edison (SCE) signed a 20-year contract with DCE, an affiliate of Caithness Energy, which will provide up to 909 megawatts of wind power. Developers say that ...

SILICON VALLEY, CALIFORNIA - First Solar Inc, the worlds largest thinfilm solar panel producer, has set up a Silicon Valley lab for a thinfilm technology with the potential for higher efficiency at a ...

MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO - In pursuit of its long-term sustainability goals, to produce zero waste and to be powered 100 per cent by renewable energy, Walmart Canada announced that its home office has ...

INDIA - India was one of the pioneering countries in Asia to implement hydroelectric power stations. As far back as 1898, one of the first hydropower plants in the region, generating only 130 ...

Electricity markets in the Southeast are facing many changes on the customer side of the meter. In a new report released today, we look at how energy efficiency, photovoltaics (solar electricity), ...

- Anti-nuclear hysteria threatens to displace global-warming fear as the preeminent environmental phobia of our time. Real events have a way of intruding on ideological blueprints, so activist greens ...

HAWAII - Despite pressure from environmentalists, Hawaii lawmakers are backing off from their goal of banning construction of any new fossil fuel burning power plants in the islands. Rep. Hermina ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Government stimulus spending has put the country on track to double renewable energy production capacity by 2012 and halve solar power costs by 2015, Vice President Joseph Biden ...