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 …

Today, there are only about 50,000 acres of federal geothermal leases in production across the USA which support about 1,200 MW of power capacity. In California, geothermal energy produces more power in than wind and …

President Obama’s renewable energy policy looks set to encourage the renewable energy sector. The three main sectors that will be encouraged by the new policies are wind, geothermal and solar.
Wind Power
the American Wind Energy Association, …

Mountain-top removal coal mining is obliterating vast swaths of Appalachia
in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia – image credit: The Sierra Club
The Governor of Kentucky, Steve Beshear, recently released a new energy plan that serves …

A plan to build the United States’ first offshore wind farm moved forward last week, after the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection approved its proposed undersea cables to transmit power to the mainland.
The Cape Wind …

Germany has been deposed as the number one wind energy generator in the world by The United States. US wind producers had record year of growth in 2008 according to the American Wind Energy Association …

3 ton slinky loop – image credit: Mark Johnson
Geothermal heating, in which hot underground water is used to heat a building, and geothermal power, in which steam from very hot underground rock (more than 300 …