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China and Spain on Thursday pledged to expand bilateral cooperation in trade and renewable energy in a bid to advance the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.

China and Spain on Thursday pledged to expand bilateral cooperation in trade and renewable energy in a bid to advance the comprehensive strategic partnership.

Alaska has massive hydro, wind, geothermal and other renewable resources, but the state's rural villages are chained to diesel and suffer oppressive energy costs they say threaten their existence. Lawmakers, energy experts and Native leaders said Thursday it's a dire problem with elusive solutions.

(Reuters) - Gevo Inc started production at a converted ethanol plant in Minnesota, bringing on line the world's first commercial-scale facility to make advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals. Shares rose more than 9 percent.

Neu Delhi (ots/PRNewswire) - Grösstes Solarenergie-Projekt in Madhya Pradesh, Indien Welspun Solar Madhya Pradesh Private Limited (WSMPPL), eine 100%-ige Tochter von Welspun Renewable Private Limited, hat den Zuschlag für ein 125 MW Solar PV-Projekt in Madhya Pradesh, Indien …

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- President Barack Obama is returning to Iowa, seeking support for an election-year agenda to encourage renewable energy along with a more immediate prize: the state's up-for-grabs voters....

Advertising company Captive Audience Display Solutions (Cads) is poised to reinvent itself as a renewable energy business after shareholders approved a merger with a UK-registered firm yesterday.

The appeal of renewable energy as an investment may dim with the decline of subsidies. But existing and future investments in devices that measure and control energy are looking good.

Orange County's Great Park will receive $1 million in federal grant money as it plays host to a national collegiate solar design competition and alternative energy exposition next year, park officials announced. The U.S. Department of Energy granted the Great Park -- the sprawling space in Irvine on what once was  El Toro Marine Corps air station -- funds for planning and preparation for the S...

Bills will rise to fund a push to more renewable energy, but officials said the rise would be less than the cost of not acting due to rising gas prices.

The government will publish its long-awaited draft energy bill later, designed to encourage major investment in nuclear and renewable energy.

Government's draft energy bill will replace current subsidies with complex new support system that may favour larger suppliersA dash for gas, a major fillip for nuclear power and blows to renewable energy – these are widely expected to be the contents of the government's much-anticipated draft energy bill, the main contents of which will be outlined by ministers in the afternoon.The nuclear ind...

The government wants to use the renewable energy independent power producers' programme to boost job creation.

judgecorp writes "Stung by continued criticism from Greenpeace and protests at Apple's headquarters over its use of electricity from non-renewable sources, Apple has promised that its data center in Maiden, North Carolina will use 100 percent renewable electricity,, 60 percent of it generated by Apple itself. The update is possible because it is building a second giant solar array, and because ...

Apple's latest green move is likely a response to Greenpeace's protests and poor reports of Apple's business practices when it comes to coal use

Greenpeace has been on the offensive against Apple this week, blasting the company for sourcing the power for its energy-intensive data centers from coal power plants. Today, Apple fired back with some remarkable facts, claiming it's a clean and renewable energy superstar. More »

(Reuters) - The United States ruled that Chinese solar companies had illegally 'dumped' renewable power equipment on the U.S. market at below-market prices, and ordered tariffs on the imports, a source close to the case said on Thursday.

Apple moves forward on coal-free renewable energy strategy with help from SunPower Corp, Bloom Energy

When we talk about energy, we often talk about it in very disconnected ways. By that, I mean we talk about new renewable generation projects, we talk about cleaning up dirty old power plants, and we talk about personal decisions you and I can make to use less energy, or get more benefits from the [...]

If a $1 billion ghost town sounds to you like the set of sci-fi movie, think again. A company called Pegasus Global Holdings is constructing a to…

SSE, one of Britain's biggest energy suppliers, has reported a 2pc rise in full-year profits as growth at its production and generation unit offsets a drop in customer numbers.

Greenpeace India activists Tuesday urged global computer maker Apple to use renewable energy to power its data centres worldwide instead of fossil fuels like coal for protecting the fragile ecology.

Despite better-than-expected Q1 results last Thursday from Power-One (PWER), which makes inverters that convert power from renewable energy sources, Axiom Capital‘s Gordon Johnson today cut his rating on the shares to Neutral from Buy based, suggesting another 9% leg down to the share price, based on his expectation that solar energy materials are set to [...]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The mayor of Hobbs, N.M., says his city has been chosen as the site for a $1 billion scientific ghost town where researchers will be able to test everything from renewable energy innovations to intelligent traffic systems and next-generation wireless networks....

Fee on business units will be put into an investment fund that will be used for renewable energy and other carbon reduction projects

Unless Congress acts, promising renewable power sources will wither and jobs will disappear.

Reader after reader talks about the energy shortage but completely ignores hydel energy. An eminent writer also talks of wind and solar energy for replacing oil produced energy which is not only expensive but also very polluting. He has asked for developing cost effective technologies relating to renewable energy. My question is why are they ignoring hydel energy for which technology is already...

Renewable energy may have met its loudest foe yet, with ‘The Donald' threatening to take his millions elsewhere if turbines ruin the view from his new golf course

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Twenty five Indonesian mining companies have so far agreed to comply with a government requirement to use biodiesel as fuel, the energy ministry said on Tuesday, in a bid to reduce pollution and increase the use of the renewable energy.

The growth of renewable energy is vital for the British economy, according to David Cameron, who has already promised to lead the "greenest government ever".

QUEENSLAND Labor's ClimateSmart Home Service the first casualty in the Newman Government's war on renewable energy schemes.

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International companies have begun salivating at the local opportunities green energy holds for them in South Africa.

Rose Garden 11:27 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good morning, everybody.  Lately, I’ve been speaking a lot about our need for an all-of-the-above strategy for American energy -- a strategy that produces more oil and gas here at home, but also produces more biofuels and fuel-efficient cars, more solar power and wind power and other sources of clean, renewable energy. This strategy is not just...

To reach a goal of getting 80 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2050, Germany plows subsidies into the smart grid.

The news comes at a tough time for renewable energy companies, with global clean energy investment down to $27 billion in the first three months of 2012, a 22 percent decline from the period a year earlier.

Another poll shows increasing and strong interest among Americans in developing Green Technology and related technologies, as well as reduced interest in anti-environmental extremism and petrolatum-related efforts. Previously, we discussed the new poll by the Science Debate people, and now we have new information from the UT Energy Poll. The results are mixed, but interesting. In order of d...

Japan is desperately trying to replace its nuclear-power capacity with renewables. It still has a long way to go.

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study.

THE MARYLAND HOUSE’S Economic Matters Committee approved on Monday Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposal to finance wind turbines off the Atlantic Coast — on the condition that the maximum premium Maryland consumers would pay for that renewable electricity be lowered. But bad policy on a smaller scale is still bad policy. Read full article >>

The Senate voted to start debate on a bill that would end roughly $20 billion in federal subsidies to the largest oil companies and use the savings to restore lapsed tax credits to the renewable energy industry and to pay down the budget deficit.

A year after half the country’s nuclear plants were switched off, many question whether its conversion to renewable electricity is on track

Efforts to stem global warming have nurtured a strong urge worldwide to deploy renewable energy.

Barack Obama struck back at his potential Republican opponents in the row over rising US fuel prices on Thursday, comparing them to medieval "Flat-Earthers" for their attitudes towards renewable energy.

KARACHI - Sindh Board of Investment Chairman Zubair Motiwala has said that Sindh government recently approved allotment of 347,434 acres of land for nine Fast Track Wind Power projects and Revenue Department granted 30 years land lease to all projects through investment under Renewable Energy Policy 2006. Motiwala, while presiding a meeting in the office of Investment Department, Government ...

KARACHI - Sindh Board of Investment Chairman Zubair Motiwala has said that Sindh government recently approved allotment of 347,434 acres of land for nine Fast Track Wind Power projects and Revenue Department granted 30 years land lease to all projects through investment under Renewable Energy Policy 2006. Motiwala, while presiding a meeting in the office of Investment Department, Government ...

(Reuters) - First Solar Inc will build a 26-megawatt solar power plant for power producer NRG Energy Inc in Arizona under the latest deal between two of the biggest players in the U.S. renewable energy sector.

President Obama has called for an "all of the above" energy strategy , ranging from taxpayer funding for electric vehicles to more drilling for oil and natural gas. The goal is to get a greater contribution from domestic renewable energy sources, such as the sun and wind, yet maintain cheap domestic energy from traditional fossil fuels. [More]

Rural households in developing countries will soon be able to swap kerosene lamps and diesel generators for clean renewable energy thanks to a financial incentive provided under the emissions reduction mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), it was reported today.

The Government should continue investing in controversial renewable energy schemes because the £1 billion spent last year "is actually quite tiny", Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin has said.

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The Garda has been called in to investigate a suspected fraud involving renewable energy grants at the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.

Prof. Eugene Kandel tells industry exports in Eilot Regional Council hall that renewable energy is good public policy.

La firma irlandesa Mainstream Renewable y la china Goldwind invertirán US$70mn cada una en la construcción de la primera etapa del proyecto eólico Ckani, previsto para la norteña II Región de Chile, d...

£6m Higher Apprenticeship Fund will deliver thousands more degree level places

The National Union of Metals Workers of South Africa (Numsa) said its energy conference was aimed at preventing the renewable energy sector from being dominated by a capitalist system.

Numsa has said that its energy conference was aimed at preventing the renewable energy sector from being dominated by a capitalist system.

"Facebook reported in its SEC filing that it owns 'network equipment' valued at $1.016 billion at the close of 2011," reports Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge. "The number reflects the expense of rapidly building a massive Internet infrastructure, including Facebook's shift from buying vendor gear and leasing data centers to building its own servers, racks and custom data centers." ...

For the past three years, promoters of shale gas and environmentalists opposed to coal-fired power plants have hailed the sudden abundance of U.S. natural gas as a bridge to a renewable energy future. But natural gas has become so cheap that many energy experts and environmentalists now wonder whether it won’t turn into a long, bumpy detour. Read full article >>

The Obama administration finalized a rule Thursday governing the management of 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands, establishing a new blueprint to guide everything from logging to recreation and renewable energy development. Read full article >>

Google’s interests in Washington these days are quite a bit broader than they once were: Competition, privacy, patent reform, copyright, H1-B visa reform, renewable energy -- the list goes on. No surprise then that the company doubled its federal lobbying spending in 2011. According to the latest numbers from the Lobbying Disclosure Act Database, the search sovereign spent $9.68 million in 2011...

By 2035, the nation will be more energy independent as it produces more oil, natural gas and renewable power, U.S. officials said Monday.

The world faces many challenges due to limited natural resources and the environmental and political consequences of using and managing scarce resources. The human consequences of natural disasters, conflict, and climate change look set to worsen. One solution is a resource that is genuinely unlimited and renewable, if well managed: knowledge. In science and technology, knowledge is an indispen...

John Berryhill has won yet another UDRP this time successfully defending the domain holder SearchMachine on the domain name BMA.com Here are the relevant findings of facts: “The Complainant Braunschweiger Maschinenanstalt AG of Braunschweig, Germany, is the owner of registered … Continue Reading

Japan's Fukushima disaster has spurred public protest in India against government plans to build new nuclear power plants, despite the Atomic Energy Commission's reassurances. We should instead be considering solar energy — a safe and sustainable option.India receives 5,000 trillion kilowatt-hours of solar energy

Today, Cool Planet BioFuels, Inc. announced that BP Technology Ventures has made an investment in the company’s C round led by Shea Ventures. Current Cool Planet investors,  General Electric, Google Ventures, ConocoPhillips, NRG and North Bridge Venture Partners also participated. The amount of funding was not disclosed.

The CEO of Codexis describes how his company is making renewable fuels affordable.

Under a climate deal announced in South Africa, world leaders agreed a ‘road map’ for all major countries to introduce legally-binding targets to tackle global warming.

Three Pacific atolls to use 100%-renewable energy. Why?

The nation’s commerce ministry opened an investigation on whether American subsidies in the solar, wind and hydroelectric sectors had hurt development of those industries in China.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish government proposals on Friday called for sourcing just over half of its electricity from wind turbines by 2020 and all of its energy from renewable sources in 2050.

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Strategizing which locations most fit Israel’s geography will help increase renewable energy goals, ministry says.

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Alberta's 'renewable industry': Livestock

Die weltweite Ökostrom-Trends  lassen sich wohl am besten mit Bill Clinton auf den Punkt bringen: "Es ist die Schuldenkrise, stupid". Glaubt man dem jüngsten  Global Renewable Energy Market Outlook ...

Cooperation with both countries to increase after WATEC 2011 conference on water, renewable energy and environmental control.

Renewable energy has received exceptional help from the government, most of it as part of the stimulus bill. Though that is ending, some say it has been unnecessary.

A sleepy fishing village is now home to one of the world’s few wind-hydrogen-diesel energy projects

Researchers achieve a goal they've been after since the 1980s—the advance could make cars and airplanes lighter, and renewable energy more practical.