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The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) has made two approvals today that it claims will support a competitive energy market and protect Ohio jobs.
NRG Energy Inc. (NYSE: NRG) has acquired distributed solar power developer Solar Power Partners (SPP).
Despite a political firestorm resulting in a dark cloud being cast over the federal government's backing of renewable energy projects in the aftermath of the fall of now bankrupt Solyndra, Inc. and Beacon Power, once high-flying cleantech companies that received federal loan guarantees, Washington is still moving ahead with plans to develop renewables—particularly, offshore wind power.
As part of the RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which manages the Superfund reclamation initiative, and the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, are considering using brownfields and closed landfills to develop renewable energy projects.
Electricity giant, NRG Energy recently announced an agreement to have First Solar (Nasdaq:FSLR) build, operate, and maintain a new 66 MW Alpine Solar Project in Lancaster, California.
On November 1, the smallish but very progressive college town of Boulder, Colorado passed two interrelated, historic ballot measures that aim to discontinue service with Xcel Energy Inc.
Concerned Canadian citizens have been lobbying for new rules governing coal-fired power plants for years.
A new 97.6-megawatt battery-storage wind power facility is now online in West Virginia. The installation represents the world's largest lithium-ion-based wind energy storage project and the biggest advanced battery clean energy project in the United States.
That new car or truck you’ve been eyeballing for the last month or so has a price tag above and beyond the sticker in the window, and we’re not talking about taxes, licenses and fees.
In order to help leaders and policymakers prepare for the upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the International Energy Agency has released a document that contains highlights of a report it will release next month concerning CO₂ emissions from fuel combustion.
