Google Inc is closing in on its goal of producing renewable energy at a price cheaper than coal, the company’s green energy czar Bill Weihl, the engineer in charge of the project, said on Tuesday.
“We …

We just got back from the Intersolar show on Friday and what an amazing experience it was to see the scale of solar energy industry. More than 1,400 manufacturers, suppliers, dealers and service providers from …

A Florida developer unveiled plans today to build the nation’s first solar-powered city. The ambitious plan announced on Thursday is for a 19,500-home city with energy-efficient buildings that will be “the first city on earth …

Renting people’s roofs to deploy solar panels could be a safe source of income for Pension funds, under renewable feed-in tariffs set to come into force in April 2010 in the U.K. Jeremy Leggett, the …

New figures released this week by the Energy Information Administration showed that non-hydro renewable energy increased 17.6 percent in 2008 compared to the year before.
Overall electricity generation was down 1 percent in 2008, most likely …

A 30-megawatt solar farm in New Mexico, will be built by First Solar (FSLR) which has entered into a contract with the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Authority.
The New Mexico contract is worth around $98 million …

If you would like to install solar panels, but don’t like the aesthetic appearance of conventional, or older style solar panels then a great alternative might be solar roof tiles. Also known as solar roof …

The oil company Royal Dutch Shell Plc doesn’t plan to make any more large investments in wind and solar energy in the future and does not expect hydrogen to play an important role in energy …

First Solar (FSLR) has already invested $25 million in the solar financier and installer SolarCity. Now it is continuing to signal that it will offer financing of it’s own for solar power projects.
The move to …

Renewable energy supporters say a proposed “solar credit scheme” will artificially inflate renewable energy figures, potentially limiting investment in large-scale projects, and may actually hurt the renewable energy industry.
In a joint statement from the Alternative …