California

Withou doubt, it has been a difficult spring and summer for the oil industry.  Three major oil spills, each of which is the largest their affected area has ever endured.  The Kalamazoo River in Michigan is the latest victim, with an estimated 1 million gallons floating withi

Last week, New York City unveiled its first of 100 ChargePoint® Network EV Charging Stations as part of the federally funded ChargePoint America program.

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is expected to introduce and energy bill today that up until last week contained measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - like a cap-and-trade mechanism and a Renewable Energy Standard.

A paper on rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity and market penetration in the U.S., written by three National Renewable Energy Laboratory colleagues (Easan Drury, Paul Denholm and Robert Margolis), shows that fully 1 gigawatt (GW) of the world’s 15 gigawatts of solar PV was installed in the U.S. alone by December of 2009.

Energy giant, Terra-Gen Power (LLC) has secured US$1.2 Billion in financing for four major wind projects in California, totaling 570 MW in capacity.

When (not if) wind power generation regains the affections of investors, here are four small companies that offer pure-play exposure to the U.S.-based sector: Broadwind Energy, Inc., (NASDAQ: BWEN); Juhl Wind, Inc.

Hundreds of companies are pursuing different technologies and strategies they believe will yield a winning next-generation biofuel.  To increase its odds of backing a winner, Khosla Ventures has made no less than nine investments in this sector.

The Obama Administration has directed a lot of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) money into renewable energy technology that can help wean the U.S. off of fossil fuels.

While the ethanol subsidy debate rages in Washington, D.C., the big oil and chemical companies continue their small experiments into next-generation biofuels. 

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